OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of New Political Economy 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaped by boom-and-bust: a history of the Canadian mining industry since 1859	106
Understanding the roles of decommodification in socioecological transformations: a new theoretical approach	64
Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models	63
Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift	60
Correction	39
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports	35
Why Africa turns to China: colonial legacies and the new politics of development finance	28
Face-to-face fundraising and the dialectics of appearance	27
The financialisation of car consumption	27
Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions	25
The political economy of ultra-activity in collective bargaining: explaining divergent post-crisis trajectories in Portugal and Spain	25
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	25
Beyond banking? an institutional logics perspective on the European Investment Bank’s approach to fragile states	24
Platform disempowerment: business power and the taxation of digital financial services	23
On the links between climate scepticism and right-wing populism (RWP): an explanatory approach based on cultural political economy (CPE)	23
Not so different after all? household attitudes toward financialisation in Germany and the United Kingdom	22
Strategies of neoliberal knowledge production: how did free-market think tanks react to the COVID-19 pandemic?	22
A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East	21
Technovation futures and state activism: configuring the United Kingdom’s economic statecraft	20
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries	20
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	19
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy	19
What we value and why it matters: a historical overview of GDP, the production boundary and unpaid household labour	18
A progressive framework for green industrial policy	18
Significance of economic openness for the origins of social insurance policies in the initial stage: a comparative study	17

Diversity, solidarity and the construction of the ingroup among (post)colonial migrants in The Netherlands, 1945–1968	16
When the means become the ends: Ghana’s ‘good governance’ electricity reform overwhelmed by the politics of power crises	16
Evaluating democratic innovations through a participatory decommodification index	16
Feminist finance? The agendas and economies of gender lens investing	15
Is the grass really greener on the other side? Parliamentary oversight of the European Central Bank and the Fed	14
The state and the legalisation of illicit financial flows: trading gold in Bolivia	14
Shareholder payouts across time and space: an internationally comparative and cross-sectoral analysis of corporate financialisation	14
Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America	14
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme	14
Political independence through monetary dependence? The case of Montenegro	14
Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry	12
The politics of student loan in Turkey: regimenting the youth through authoritarian debtfarism	12
New frontiers of electricity capital: energy access in sub-Saharan Africa	12
South-South monetary regionalism: a case of productive incoherence?	12
International financialisation in emerging economies: the impact of financial openness, financial inflows, global production networks and global financial centres	11
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy	11
The Weberian ideal type in political economy: obsolete match or fruitful encounter?	11
Social relations and worker resistance in the platform economy: towards a future research agenda	11
Karl Polanyi’s ‘socialist accounting’ and ‘overview’ in the age of data analytics	11
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative	11
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	10
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory	10
A morphological analysis of Brexitism	9
Central banks’ knowledge controversies	9
“Like a pancake on wet pavement”: everyday resonance, asymmetric mobilisation, and the failure of alternatives to neoliberalism in Western Europe, 1973–83	9
Populist strategy revisited: toward a coalitional framework of populist mobilisation	9
The political economy of economic upgrading in Central Eastern Europe	9
Inclusion or co-optation? Navigating recruitment as a gender diversity candidate in finance	9
The depoliticisation of money: specifying the loss of political designability	9
Correction	9
The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases	8
Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits	8
An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions	8
Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation	8
Depoliticising monetary tightening: how the European Central Bank managed the 2021–2023 inflation shock	8
Decarbonising states as owners	8
FinTech as a state-orchestrated strategy: redefining financialization of households in Argentina	8
Dismantling the anti-politics machine in aid: political mētis and its limits	8
Too contested to avoid, too complex to normalise: the politics of integrating financial stability considerations into the ECB’s monetary policy	7
Towards a reparative welfare state	7
The importance of the English language for the early Engels–a comparison between Engels’ and Marx’s research on English political economic literature before their collaboration	7
Power resources and the last-mile problem in logistics: reflections on a Swiss labour struggle	7
The political economy of infrastructure failure	7
Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state’s role in personal debt governance	7
Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States	7
Walking a fine line: Germany and the question of imperialism	7
UK pension funds’ patience and liquidity in the age of market-based finance	7
Interpreting spillovers: the ECB, Fed interest rate hikes, and the persistence of dollar dominance	7
Towards a degrowth transition: bringing interests back in	7
The last subsidy: regulating devaluation in the German coal phase-out	6

Decoupling climate change: winter tourism and the maintenance of regional growth	6
Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India	6
The social and political bases of political economy: interpreting and periodising Italian developments since WWII	6
Polanyi in rural China: beyond the double movement	6
The political economy of post-reproduction society	6
Is China financialised? The significance of two historic transformations of Chinese finance	6
A time of reproductive unrest: the articulation of capital accumulation, social reproduction, and the Irish state	6
Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown	5
States of transition: a political economy approach	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
Accounting for whom? The financialisation of the environmental economic transition	5
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	5
Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero	5
Crisis management, new constitutionalism, and depoliticisation: recasting the politics of austerity in the US and UK, 2010–16	5
Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation	5
Status quo crisis again? RMB challenges and dollar hegemony	5
Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement	5
Strategic repoliticisation: inflation, blame, and the fracturing of democratic accountability in the United States	5
Chokepoint asymmetry and the political economy of constraint: infrastructural power, weaponised interdependence, and the UK	5
Social reproduction theory and the capitalist ‘form’ of social reproduction	5
Challenges and pathways to inclusive low-carbon development in South Africa: a political settlements analysis	4
Fictitious money: cryptocurrency as a social form	4
Culture & European attitudes on public debt	4
International finance institutions and the public-private partnership dilemma	4
Disciplining of Roma workers through predatory debt in Czechia	4
Exploitation, colonial capitalism, and the deep roots of climate vulnerability in West Africa	4
The whiteness of markets: Anglo-American colonialism, white supremacy and free market rhetoric	4
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models: how modelling contributed to neoliberal resilience in Denmark	4
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite	4
Adapting to the market: leftist ideological justifications of liberal economic policies, 1977–1986	4
Feminism, innovative finance and the Equality Fund: doing well while doing good?	4
When neoliberalism meets technocracy: intra-elite conflict and the realignment of Britain’s macroeconomic regime under Liz Truss	4
Challenging boundaries: exploring pricing strategies, and unpaid labour time to explain earning disparities in online labour markets	4
China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC): an assessment of money and power relations	4
Centimanes v. Titans: right-wing populist governments’ treatment of foreign multinationals in East Central Europe	4
Perpetuity and spend-down: the role of investment and technological transitions in philanthropy	4
Are foreign stock investors politically responsive? Evidence from the 2012 South Korean presidential election	4
The comparative political economy of job creation: European growth and employment models	4
The Eurozone’s contradiction: how the power of finance subordinates the periphery and threatens monetary integration	4
Rentier capitalism in the Chilean economy: disconnection between surplus capture and productive investment	4
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism: Italy’s two-tiered growth regime	4
Militarised neoliberalism and the reconstruction of the global political economy	3
Unravelling connections: energy, economic growth, and decoupling through a historical lens	3
From NAFTA to USMCA: revisiting the market access – policy space trade-off	3
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation	3
Why federalism matters: policy feedback, institutional variation and the politics of trade policy-making in Canada and Germany	3
The transformation of resource-rich countries in the International Division of Labour: ‘backward' industrialisation and relative surplus population in Uzbekistan	3
Re-politicising merger policy: regulating foreign takeovers in Britain and Italy	3
‘Saving the WTO’: middle power insiders and joint statement initiatives at the World Trade Organisation	3
The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’	3
Towards transnational agrarian conflicts? Global NGOs, transnational agrobusiness and local struggles for land on Sumatra	3
A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work	3
Special section introduction: epistemic politics in international and comparative political economy	3
Performing energy: the International Energy Agency and the conflicting imaginaries of capitalist energy transition	3
Beyond the North–South divide: transnational coalitions in EU reforms	3