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D-Index
43
Citations
7911
World Ranking
1973
National Ranking
235

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ray Hudson is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their body of work focuses extensively on topics related to housing, finance, neoliberalism, employment and welfare studies, and regional resilience and development. Additionally, they engage with broader themes within political and economic history of the UK and US, global energy and sustainability research, sustainable industrial ecology, as well as innovation, sustainability, and human-machine systems.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • 'Levelling up' in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism? (2022), published in Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
  • Capitalism, contradictions, crises: pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem? (2021), published in Area Development and Policy
  • Capitalist development, the impossibility of 'green' capitalism, and the absence of alternatives to it (2023), published in Area Development and Policy
  • Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm (2020), published in European Urban and Regional Studies
  • Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an 'Unjust' Transition in the UK (2022), published in International Union Rights

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Huw Beynon
  • Leonardo Mello e Silva

Ray Hudson has published often in the following venues:

  • Area Development and Policy
  • Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd
  • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
  • European Urban and Regional Studies
  • International Union Rights

Their research spans several subfields including finance, general health professions, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

Ray Hudson was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Placing the Social Economy

    Ash Amin;Angus Cameron;Raymond Hudson

  • ‘The Learning Economy, the Learning Firm and the Learning Region’ A Sympathetic Critique of the Limits to Learning

    Ray Hudson

  • Resilient regions in an uncertain world: wishful thinking or a practical reality?

    Ray Hudson

  • Networks of value, commodities and regions: reworking divisions of labour in macro-regional economies

    Adrian Smith;Al Rainnie;Mick Dunford;Jane Hardy

  • Economic Geographies: Circuits, Flows and Spaces

    Raymond Hudson

  • Re-thinking change in old industrial regions : reflecting on the experiences of North East England.

    Ray Hudson

  • Regions and Regional Uneven Development Forever? Some Reflective Comments upon Theory and Practice

    Ray Hudson

  • Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits

    Ray Hudson

  • Labour-Market Changes and New Forms of Work in Old Industrial Regions: Maybe Flexibility for Some but Not Flexible Accumulation

    R Hudson

  • Contemporary Crisis Across Europe and the Crisis of Regional Development Theories

    Costis Hadjimichalis;Ray Hudson

  • Institutional change, cultural transformation and economic regeneration : myths and realities from Europe's old industrial areas

    Raymond Hudson

  • A Place Called Teesside: A Locality in a Global Economy

    Huw Beynon;Raymond Hudson;David Sadler

  • Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting?

    Ray Hudson

  • Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class?

    Ray Hudson;David Sadler

  • Welfare as Work? The Potential of the UK Social Economy:

    A Amin;A Cameron;R Hudson

  • Governing municipal waste: Towards a new analytical framework

    Harriet Bulkeley;Matt Watson;Ray Hudson;Paul Weaver

  • The Alterity of the Social Economy

    Ash Amin;Angus Cameron;Ray Hudson

  • Life on the edge : Navigating the competitive tensions between the ‘social’ and the ‘economic’ in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream

    Ray Hudson

  • Territorial Agglomeration and Industrial Symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a Secondary Processing Complex

    Nicky Gregson;Mike Crang;Farid Uddin Ahamed;Nasreen Akter

  • A Tale of Two Industries: The Contraction of Coal and Steel in the North East of England

    Harland Prechel;Huw Beynon;Ray Hudson;David Sadler

  • Networks, Regional Development and Democratic Control

    Costis Hadjimichalis;Ray Hudson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ash Amin
Ash Amin University of Cambridge
Allan M. Williams
Allan M. Williams University of Surrey
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Paul M. Weaver
Paul M. Weaver University of Limerick
James G. Anderson
James G. Anderson Harvard University
Rachel Pain
Rachel Pain Newcastle University
Russell King
Russell King University of Sussex
Robert J. Bennett
Robert J. Bennett University of Cambridge
Nicky Gregson
Nicky Gregson Durham University

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