Our series of working papers gives group members and radical friends the opportunity to put their most recent work before a wider public without delay and without requiring a standard academic format. And our two  most recent papers give some indication of the breadth of foundational concerns:

Working Paper 13 considers the responsibilities of engineers and engineering in the
renewal of reliance systems and argues the case for a new practice of public
engineering. It takes the case of the Italian motorway system and is authored by Angelo
Salento and Stefano Susani, an economic sociologist and an engineer with a leadership
role in the rebuilding of that system after the Morandi bridge collapse.

Working Paper 12 returns to the foundational theme of place and introduces the concept of habitation. Drawing on evidence and argument in a report for Welsh Government, this paper considers whether and how the ideal of the 15 minute city can be adapted in a car dependent territory of small towns and dispersed settlement 

After collective discussion about the cost-of-living crisis as a crisis of unliveability, Working Paper 11 is authored by David Bassens and the Foundational Economy Research Ltd team The working paper presents household expenditure data on 6 countries pre and post crisis using the residual income concept and the FE 4 measures developed by the British researchers.

Public engineering and the future of Infrastructures: lessons from the Italian motorways system Angelo Salento and Stefano Susani (WP 13, November 2023)

Habitation and the ideal of the 15-minute city in Wales Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams (WP12, September 2023)

Market entitlement and the Foundational Economy / FE 4 metric after the “cost of living crisis” David Bassens, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams (WP11, August 2023)

What if Social Democracy Cannot Capture the Central State? The foundational approach to a politics of liveability and sustainability Luca Calafati, joe Earle, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Steve Jeffels, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams (WP10, May 2021)

Working in the Foundational Economy During Covid-19 Paul Sissons, Pattanapong Tiwasing, Jennifer Ferreira (WP9, April 2021)

Meeting Social Needs on a Damaged Planet: Foundational Economy 2.0 and the care-ful practice of radical policy Luca Calafati, Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams (WP8, January 2021)

Universal Basic Services and the Foundational Economy Anna Coote (WP7, October 2020)

Cohesion through housing? Residual income, housing tenure and UK regional policy Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams (WP6, February 2020)

Foundational liveability: rethinking territorial inequalities   Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Nick Tsitsianis and Karel Williams (WP5, October 2018)

Future Value as the basis for multiple investments Hanneke Puts and Jurgen van der Heijden (WP4, August 2017)

From foundational economics and the grounded city to foundational urban systems Stephen Hall and Alex Schafran (WP3, May 2017)

How to make Brexit Work: foundational policies for a disunited kingdom  Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (WP2, April 2017)

How public sector accounting mimics private sector reporting and puts foundational services at risk  Colin Haslam, Nick Tsitsianis and Raznan Hionaru (WP1, February 2017)