David William Soskice, FBA (born 6 July 1942) is a British political economist and academic.
Soskice was Visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell and, every spring semester, at Duke University.
He counselled the OECD, the British Labour Party and the governments of United Kingdom, France, and Germany in questions of employment and education.
Within his research area, political economy, Soskice's focusses on the study of labor markets, systems of Vocational education and production regimes.
Hall[1] is influential[2] both in Political Economy (due to its macroeconomic implications) and Business (because of its analytical focus on the organizational structure of the individual firm).