Leonard Seabrooke

Who is Leonard Seabrooke?

Leonard Seabrooke is a Copenhagen Business School Professor in International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Business and Politics and also a University of Warwick Professor in International Political Economy in the Department of Political and International Studies, where he was the director of the university's Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation for 2009-2010.

Seabrooke's research primarily concerns the politics of access to credit, tax, and property within economies, as well as international financial governance. He works on the social sources of how states generate international financial capacity, American structural power in the international financial system, the role of professions in solving long-term social and economic problems, how 'everyday politics' has influence in the world economy, how international policy is created through common standards, and the connection between welfare systems, housing, fertility, and international finance.