James Jackson

James is a Hallsworth Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences (SOSS) and the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). He is currently a lecturer and module convenor of the Environmental Politics (level two undergraduate) module at the Politics department. A political economist with a focus on the intersection of fiscal, monetary and climate policy, his work explored numerous issues related to the political economy of the green transition.

James joined Manchester after completing his PhD at the University of Sheffield and the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI). He has held visiting positions at the University of Bergen (2022), the University of Toronto (2023), the University of Melbourne (2024), the University of Ottawa (2025) and Peking University (2025).

James is the author of four forthcoming books: The first is a co-authored monograph on the environmental unsustainability of European Men's football with Manchester University Press to be published in 2027. The second is a single-authored monograph on the international political economy of the EV transition with Cambridge University Press to be published in 2027. The third is a co-authored monograph on Multi-Level Climate Governance to be published with Oxford University Press in 2027. Finally, the fourth is on climateflation and the inflationary impacts of climate change, to be published with Cambridge University Press to be published in 2028.