OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of New Political Economy is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaped by boom-and-bust: a history of the Canadian mining industry since 1859	161
Special section introduction: epistemic politics in international and comparative political economy	77
The Power of Finance in the Age of Market Based Banking	57
Tools to tame the financialisation of housing	53
Accounting for whom? The financialisation of the environmental economic transition	50
Central banks’ knowledge controversies	37
SoftBank: empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism	35
Crisis management, new constitutionalism, and depoliticisation: recasting the politics of austerity in the US and UK, 2010–16	34
COVID and structural cartelisation: market-state-society ties and the political economy of Pharma	33
Beyond context: taking political economy seriously in the study of corporate accountability	29
Diffusion of Practice: The Curious Case of the Sino-German Technical Standardisation Partnership	26
Introduction: power relations in the digital economy	25
Homo digitalis : narrative for a new political economy of digital transformation and transition	25
Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation	23
The techfare state: debt, discipline, and accelerated neoliberalism	23
Resilience in the City of London: the fate of UK financial services after Brexit	22
Explaining divergent National Responses to Covid-19: An Enhanced State Capacity Framework	22
The End of Austerity as Common Sense? An Experimental Analysis of Public Opinion Shifts and Class Dynamics During the Covid-19 Crisis	16
Low interest rates, low productivity, low growth? A multi-sector case study of UK-based firms’ funding and investment strategies in the context of loose monetary policy	16
Beyond the North–South divide: transnational coalitions in EU reforms	15
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds	15
How can public policies facilitate local cooperation? insights from the EU’s wine policy	14
The political economy of economic upgrading in Central Eastern Europe	14
Conceptualising private fintech platforms as financial statecraft and recentralisation in China	13
Private equity firms and industrial policy: elaborating the state-finance nexus in state-led markets	13

A tale of housing cycles and fiscal policy, not competitiveness. Growth drivers in Southern Europe	13
Credible interventionism: economic ideas of government and macroeconomic policy in the Great Recession	13
Karl Polanyi’s ‘socialist accounting’ and ‘overview’ in the age of data analytics	12
Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models	12
Noxious deindustrialisation and extractivism: Quintero-Puchuncaví in the international division of labour and noxiousness	12
Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift	12
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	11
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory	11
The public interest requirement in quiet business politics and noisy business politics – evidence from Australia	11
Business elites and populism: understanding business responses	11
The Weberian ideal type in political economy: obsolete match or fruitful encounter?	10
Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach	10
Theorising the ‘migration fix’: workerisation and exclusion in the European border regime	10
Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy	9
Freedom, domination and the gig economy	9
The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases	8
A morphological analysis of Brexitism	8
Can the anti-politics machine be dismantled?	8
Resilience, discipline and financialisation in the UK’s liberal welfare state	8
Socialism and the Market: Returning to the East European Debate	8
Experience, communication, and collective action: financial autonomy and capital market development in East Asia	8
Global pressures, household social reproduction strategies and compound inequality	8
A Critical Node: The Role of China in the Transnational Circulation of Developmentalist Ideas, Policies and Practices	8
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	7
Experts versus representatives? Financialised valuation and institutional change in financial governance	7
Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation	7
The Social Ecology of Adam Smith: Reconsidering the Intellectual Foundations of Political Economy	7
The financialisation of car consumption	7
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: the case of Macquarie in Britain's water and energy networks	7
Capitalist reforms and extreme poverty in China: unprecedented progress or income deflation?	6
Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits	6
Growth models in Europe’s Eastern and Southern peripheries: between national and EU politics	6
Towards an ‘Everyday’ Cultural Political Economy of English Football: Conceptualising the Futures of Wembley Stadium and the Grassroots Game	6
Social reproduction theory and the capitalist ‘form’ of social reproduction	6
Black swan -or- black boxed economics: applying ontology, Keynesianism, and constructivism to policy and market analysis	6
Status quo crisis again? RMB challenges and dollar hegemony	5
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports	5
Varieties of central banking: the Nordic Model beyond a fiscal-centric approach	5
‘Don’t play if you can’t win’: household disengagement in the Australian pension system	5
The distribution of the cost of Cuban social reproduction in 2016: the relative contributions of domestic and diasporic households, the private sector and the state	5
Collaboration, Adaptation, or Disruption? Wall Street, Fintech and Corporate Bond Trading	5
Platform power and regulatory politics: Polanyi for the twenty-first century	5
Keep it complex! Prodi’s curse and the EU fiscal governance regime complex	5
Dismantling the anti-politics machine in aid: political mētis and its limits	5
Addendum	5
Face-to-face fundraising and the dialectics of appearance	4
Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions	4
Curating reflexivity: industry events and the performative politics of alternative finance	4
Rent and financial accumulation: locating the profitability of American finance	4
When do business associations want a hard trade-sustainability nexus? A framework of analysis and the EU case	4

Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation	4
The International Division of Finance: reassessing the peripheral condition in a financialised capitalism	4
Rethinking predation under financialisation through the history of subprime mortgages: a case of raiding finance	4
Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States	4
On the links between climate scepticism and right-wing populism (RWP): an explanatory approach based on cultural political economy (CPE)	4
Studying the relationship between social policy promotion and neoliberalism: the case of social investment	4
Decarbonising states as owners	4
Understanding Queer Oppression and Resistance in the Global Economy: Towards a Theoretical Framework for Political Economy	4
Algorithmic governance or extortion? Everyday experiences of fintech for loans in Nigeria	4
Responding to platform firm power: differing national responses	4
Power resources and the last-mile problem in logistics: reflections on a Swiss labour struggle	4
Inclusion or co-optation? Navigating recruitment as a gender diversity candidate in finance	4
Statistical Conventions and the Forms of the State: A Story of South African Statistics	4
Bitcoin as a digital commodity	4
Sino-Japanese Engagement in the Making of China’s National Champions	4
An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions	3
The whiteness of markets: Anglo-American colonialism, white supremacy and free market rhetoric	3
The Political Economy of Climate Change Litigation: Is There a Point to Suing Fossil Fuel Companies?	3
Correction	3
Piercing the veil of monetarism: a decomposition of American inflation, 1970–1985	3
The European banks’ role in the financial crisis of 2007-8: a critical assessment	3
Limits to the financialisation of the state: exploring obstructions to social impact bonds as a form of financialised statecraft in the UK, Israel, and Canada	3
‘Let me tell you a story’: the politics of macroeconomic models	3
China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC): an assessment of money and power relations	3
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models: how modelling contributed to neoliberal resilience in Denmark	3
From Bail-out to Bail-in: explaining the variegated responses to the international financial aid requests of Ireland and Cyprus	3
A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East	3
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism: Italy’s two-tiered growth regime	3
Correction	3
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy	2
The Ineffectiveness of CSR: Understanding Garment Company Commitments to Living Wages in Global Supply Chains	2
Financialisation of Islamic finance: a Polanyian approach on the hegemony of market logic over Islamic Logic	2
Rewarding a friend: Does the World Bank direct non-commercial risk insurance to countries that support US foreign policy interests?	2
Imaginary capital migration and the competitive politics of corporate taxation	2
Market-reach into social reproduction and transnational labour mobility in Europe	2
The comparative political economy of job creation: European growth and employment models	2
The ecological currency hierarchy: empirical support for currency power driven asymmetries in environmental and social autonomy	2
Emergent regime complexity and epistemic barriers in ‘bigtech’ finance	2
Conceptualising state financialisation: from the core to the periphery	2
Does household indebtedness contribute to the decline of union density?	2
Towards a concept of responsibility for economics	2
The social construction of sustainable futures: how models and scenarios limit climate mitigation possibilities	2
Seeing like a macroeconomist: varieties of formalisation, professional incentives and academic ideational change	2
Towards a degrowth transition: bringing interests back in	2
Challenges and pathways to inclusive low-carbon development in South Africa: a political settlements analysis	2
Towards a sociology of state investment funds? sovereign wealth funds and state-business relations in Saudi Arabia	2
Fossilised Capital: Price and Profit in the Energy Transition	2
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries	2
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	2
Challenging boundaries: exploring pricing strategies, and unpaid labour time to explain earning disparities in online labour markets*	2
Modern finance theory and practice and the Anthropocene	2
Logistics of the neoliberal food regime: circulation, corporate food security and the United Arab Emirates	2
Understanding power, culture and institutional change: a revised approach to political settlements analysis	2
Any alternative to the Wall Street Consensus? Comparing the infrastructure financing models of the US, the EU, and China	2
Phantom investments, hegemony and the chameleon of dispossession: tourism development at Cavo Sidero- Crete, Greece	2