Ideas, organised around themes.
For more than twenty-five years the question has been consistent: how should economies stay prosperous and secure in a changing world? These themes carry that thread through current work.
01 Productive Security
Bringing economic growth, innovation, finance and national security into a single strategic approach.
KEY WORK
A Bretton Woods moment for productive security · Future of Security & Bretton Woods 2.0
02 Defence Finance
Why the structure of defence finance — not just the level of spending — determines productive security.
KEY WORK
Financing defence for growth & resilience · Towards a defence spending model · Defence inflation · UK, DE, SE, NO, KR
03 Economic Security
Economics meets national security across three books; a synthesis paper is in progress.
KEY WORK
The Weaponization of Trade · Gaming Trade · The World at Economic War
04 Trade
The politics behind the economics of trade — introduced by In Defence of World Trade.
KEY WORK
In Defence of World Trade · Fragmentation · Supply Chain Resilience is the New Tradecraft
05 Digital Trade
Paperless trade, digital identity and frictionless commerce — Commonwealth, Africa and ICC work, rebuilt with attribution.
KEY WORK
Quantitative Analysis of the Move to Paperless Trade (orig. Commonwealth) · Africa · ICC papers
06 Social, Security & Society Returns on Investment
Rebecca’s framework for the wider value of trade and trade finance; a method paper is in progress, with a tool to follow via CES.
KEY WORK
SROI method paper (forthcoming) · Regulatory Reality of Sustainable Trade (orig. ITFA) · The Regulatory Paradox (orig. ITFA)
Each theme keeps a historical work section: earlier pieces — Rebecca’s own, and work first published with the ICC, Commonwealth, ITFA or the Baltic Defence Review — rebuilt as Rebeccanomics pages with a clear nod to the original publisher.
Economics for a world in strategic transition. Independent research and strategic advisory by Dr Rebecca Harding.
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