OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economy and Society is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Financialization with Chinese characteristics? Exchanges, control and capital markets in authoritarian capitalism	55
Beyond surveillance capitalism: Privacy, regulation and big data in Europe and China	51
The New Permanent Universal Owners: Index funds, patient capital, and the distinction between feeble and forceful stewardship	43
Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets	28
‘Meaningless work’: How the datafication of health reconfigures knowledge about work and erodes professional judgement	27
Data money: The socio-technical infrastructure of cryptocurrency blockchains	25
Configuring the digital farmer: A nudge world in the making?	22
Recentering central banks: Theorizing state-economy boundaries as central bank effects	21
Housing and economic inequality in the long run: The retreat of owner occupation	21
Climate change and insurance	19
Rescaling index insurance for climate and development in Africa	19
Does economics have an ‘Africa problem’?	18
The moral economy of work: Demanding jobs and deserving money in South Africa	16
Life and debt: A view from the south	15
Governing urban resilience: Insurance and the problematization of climate change	14
Connecting risk: Systemic risk from finance to the digital	13
Beyond performativity: Material futures of finance	12
(De-)assetizing pharmaceutical patents: Patent contestations behind a blockbuster drug	11
A journey through ‘infraspace’: The financial architecture of infrastructure	11
Elinor Ostrom and public health	11
Institutionalizing neoclassical economics in Africa: Instruments, ideology and implications	11
Accumulation by immobilization: Migration, mobility and money in Libya	10
Thick claims and thin rights: Taxation and the construction of analogue property rights in Lagos	10
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom	10
Justifying inherited wealth: Between ‘the bank of mum and dad’ and the meritocratic ideal	9

Hazardous simulations: Pricing climate risk in US coastal insurance markets	9
Bridges, platforms and satellites: Theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international development	9
Europe’s ‘Hamiltonian moment’? On the political uses and explanatory usefulness of a recurrent historical comparison	9
Growth at risk: Boundary walkers, stylized facts and the legitimacy of countercyclical interventions	8
Living, not just surviving: The politics of refusing low-wage jobs in urban South Africa	8
What happened to the theory of African capitalism?	7
Uncomfortable knowledge in central banking: Economic expertise confronts the visibility dilemma	7
The emergence of regulatory capitalism in Africa	7
The role played by large firms in generating income inequality: UK FTSE 100 pay practices in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries	7
Strategic ignorance and crises of trust: Un-anticipating futures and governing food supply chains in the shadow of Horsegate	7
Global health, accelerated: Rapid diagnostics and the fragile solidarities of ‘emergency R&D’	7
Narrating imagined crises: How central bank storytelling exerts infrastructural power	6
The (anti) politics of central banking: Monetary policy, class conflict and the limits of sovereignty in South Africa	6
Child labour, cobalt and the London Metal Exchange: Fetish, fixing and the limits of financialization	6
The reproduction of capital through financial education	6
Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis	6
Traders of gametes, brokers of values: Mediating commercial gamete donations in Delhi	5
The cost of saving babies: How economists justify policies	5
Economy and society in COVID times	5
Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years	5
Machine learning and social action in markets: From first- to second-generation automated trading	5
Acceleration, development and technocapitalism at the Silicon Cape of Africa	5
State financialization: Permanent austerity, financialized real estate and the politics of public assets in Italy	5
Insurantialization and the moral economy ofex anterisk management in the Caribbean	5
Demodystopias: Narratives of ultra-low fertility in Asia	5
From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: How welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention	5
Enacting a rational actor: Roboadvisors and the algorithmic performance of ideal types	5
Dependence on independence: Central bank lawyers and the (un)making of the European economy	5
Grounding urban production: Resident claims-making as financialization in Mumbai’s ‘slum’ lands	4
All that is solid melts into code	4
Resurgent charity and the neoliberalizing social	4
Insurance and the temporality of climate ethics: Accounting for climate change in US flood insurance	4
The allure of finance: Social impact investing and the challenges of assetization in financialized capitalism	4
Changing government in China through philanthropy: On socialist spiritual civilization, civilized cities and good communists	4
Independence without purpose? Macroprudential regulation at the Bundesbank	4
Carbon capital: The lexicon and allegories of US hydrocarbon finance	3
Exchanging expectations: Abenomics and the politics of finance in post-Fukushima Japan	3
‘Hodling’ on: Memetic storytelling and digital folklore within a cryptocurrency world	3
Beds for rent	3
Flaunt the imperfections: Information, entanglements and the regulation of London’s Alternative Investment Market	3
Mundane disappearance: The politics of letting disappear in Brazil	3
The marketization of the French public finance before capitalism: The paulette edict of 1604	3