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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaped by boom-and-bust: a history of the Canadian mining industry since 1859	231
Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift	90
Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models	64
Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy	53
Face-to-face fundraising and the dialectics of appearance	46
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports	45
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	32
The financialisation of car consumption	30
Experts versus representatives? Financialised valuation and institutional change in financial governance	21
On the links between climate scepticism and right-wing populism (RWP): an explanatory approach based on cultural political economy (CPE)	21
Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions	21
A progressive framework for green industrial policy	20
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	20
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries	20
Strategies of neoliberal knowledge production: how did free-market think tanks react to the COVID-19 pandemic?	20
Not so different after all? household attitudes toward financialisation in Germany and the United Kingdom	19
A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East	18
Significance of economic openness for the origins of social insurance policies in the initial stage: a comparative study	18
Technovation futures and state activism: configuring the United Kingdom’s economic statecraft	18
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy	18
When the means become the ends: Ghana’s ‘good governance’ electricity reform overwhelmed by the politics of power crises	17
The state and the legalisation of illicit financial flows: trading gold in Bolivia	17
What we value and why it matters: a historical overview of GDP, the production boundary and unpaid household labour	17
Shareholder payouts across time and space: an internationally comparative and cross-sectoral analysis of corporate financialisation	17
Political independence through monetary dependence? The case of Montenegro	15

Is the grass really greener on the other side? Parliamentary oversight of the European Central Bank and the Fed*	15
Diversity, solidarity and the construction of the ingroup among (post)colonial migrants in The Netherlands, 1945–1968	14
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme	14
Social relations and worker resistance in the platform economy: towards a future research agenda	13
Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America	13
South-South monetary regionalism: a case of productive incoherence?	13
Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry	13
New frontiers of electricity capital: energy access in sub-Saharan Africa	13
The politics of student loan in Turkey: regimenting the youth through authoritarian debtfarism	12
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative	12
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy	12
The Weberian ideal type in political economy: obsolete match or fruitful encounter?	11
‘Making financial sense of the future’: actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk	11
Correction	10
Central banks’ knowledge controversies	9
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory	9
Karl Polanyi’s ‘socialist accounting’ and ‘overview’ in the age of data analytics	9
The political economy of economic upgrading in Central Eastern Europe	9
Depoliticising monetary tightening: how the European Central Bank managed the 2021–2023 inflation shock	8
The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases	8
Inclusion or co-optation? Navigating recruitment as a gender diversity candidate in finance	8
Dismantling the anti-politics machine in aid: political mētis and its limits	8
FinTech as a state-orchestrated strategy: redefining financialization of households in Argentina	8
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	8
A morphological analysis of Brexitism	8
Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits	8
Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation	8
Decarbonising states as owners	8
Keep it complex! Prodi’s curse and the EU fiscal governance regime complex	7
Power resources and the last-mile problem in logistics: reflections on a Swiss labour struggle	7
Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state’s role in personal debt governance	7
Too contested to avoid, too complex to normalise: the politics of integrating financial stability considerations into the ECB’s monetary policy	7
Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States	7
UK pension funds’ patience and liquidity in the age of market-based finance	7
An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions	7
Towards a degrowth transition: bringing interests back in	7
Walking a fine line: Germany and the question of imperialism	7
Building the weak hand of the state: tracing the market boundaries of high pharmaceutical prices in France	6
Tensions between individual and system change in the climate movement: an analysis of Extinction Rebellion	6
Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India	6
Decoupling climate change: winter tourism and the maintenance of regional growth	6
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	6
A time of reproductive unrest: the articulation of capital accumulation, social reproduction, and the Irish state	6
Towards a reparative welfare state	6
Is China financialised? The significance of two historic transformations of Chinese finance	6
Polanyi in rural China: beyond the double movement	6
The social and political bases of political economy: interpreting and periodising Italian developments since WWII	6
The last subsidy: regulating devaluation in the German coal phase-out	5
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds	5
The political economy of post-reproduction society	5

Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement	5
Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation	5
Accounting for whom? The financialisation of the environmental economic transition	5
Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero	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
Crisis management, new constitutionalism, and depoliticisation: recasting the politics of austerity in the US and UK, 2010–16	5
Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown	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	4
When neoliberalism meets technocracy: intra-elite conflict and the realignment of Britain’s macroeconomic regime under Liz Truss	4
Exploitation, colonial capitalism, and the deep roots of climate vulnerability in West Africa	4
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism: Italy’s two-tiered growth regime	4
The Eurozone’s contradiction: how the power of finance subordinates the periphery and threatens monetary integration	4
Disciplining of Roma workers through predatory debt in Czechia	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
States of transition: a political economy approach	4
Status quo crisis again? RMB challenges and dollar hegemony	4
Social reproduction theory and the capitalist ‘form’ of social reproduction	4
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models: how modelling contributed to neoliberal resilience in Denmark	4
The whiteness of markets: Anglo-American colonialism, white supremacy and free market rhetoric	4
Imaginary capital migration and the competitive politics of corporate taxation	3
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite	3
Militarised neoliberalism and the reconstruction of the global political economy	3
‘Saving the WTO’: middle power insiders and joint statement initiatives at the World Trade Organisation	3
Are foreign stock investors politically responsive? Evidence from the 2012 South Korean presidential election	3
Challenges and pathways to inclusive low-carbon development in South Africa: a political settlements analysis	3
Rentier capitalism in the Chilean economy: disconnection between surplus capture and productive investment	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
A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work	3
Why federalism matters: policy feedback, institutional variation and the politics of trade policy-making in Canada and Germany	3
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation	3
Towards transnational agrarian conflicts? Global NGOs, transnational agrobusiness and local struggles for land on Sumatra	3
Adapting to the market: leftist ideological justifications of liberal economic policies, 1977–1986	3
The comparative political economy of job creation: European growth and employment models	3
Feminism, innovative finance and the Equality Fund: doing well while doing good?	3
The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday	3
Performing energy: the International Energy Agency and the conflicting imaginaries of capitalist energy transition	3
The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’	3
The transformation of resource-rich countries in the International Division of Labour: ‘backward' industrialisation and relative surplus population in Uzbekistan	3
Culture & European attitudes on public debt	3