Helen Thompson (political economist)

Helen Thompson is an English academic who teaches politics at Cambridge University, where she is a professor of political economy and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where she is also Director of Studies.^[2][3]

Helen Thompson
Known for	Talking Politics podcast[1]
Title	Professor
Academic work
Discipline	Political Sciences
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Website	Professor Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge)[2]

She has been working in Cambridge since 1994 and is currently a member of the Department of Politics and International Studies. One of her recent research interests is the aftermath of the 2008 Financial crisis.

She often co-hosted the Talking Politics podcast with David Runciman.^[1] She now co-hosts UnHerd's podcast These Times.^[4]

In 2024, the New Statesman named Thompson 48th in The Left Power List 2024, the magazine's "guide to the 50 most influential people in progressive politics".^[5]

Selected works

• — (Spring 1999). "The Modern State, Political Choice and An Open International Economy". Government and Opposition. 32 (2). Cambridge University Press: 203–225. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1999.tb00478.x. eISSN 1477-7053. ISSN 0017-257X. JSTOR 44482823. LCCN 65009983. OCLC 904489489. S2CID 143614074.
• — (18 May 2017). Oil and the Western Economic Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52509-9. ISBN 978-3-319-52509-9. LCCN 2019744263. OCLC 987826447. OL 28330723M.
• — (8 June 2017). "Inevitability and contingency: The political economy of Brexit". The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 19 (3): 434–449. doi:10.1177/1369148117710431. eISSN 1467-856X. ISSN 1369-1481. LCCN sn99033216. OCLC 49056411. S2CID 157939675.
• — (24 March 2022). Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198864981. LCCN 2021951494. OCLC 1260819550. OL 33958421M.