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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizing force: Security, social relations and work organization	54
Independence without purpose? Macroprudential regulation at the Bundesbank	34
The Amazon’s road to growth? Infrastructural imaginaries of Brazil’s BR-319 Highway	31
What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960	31
Debt entanglements: Rethinking the developmental state in the global South	31
‘To assign people their place in society’: School grades and the quantification of merit	28
Abolishing the colour line: W.E.B. Du Bois’s theory of dynamic social equilibrium	28
The American ‘doc fix’: Incremental policy change and the growth of US healthcare spending	27
Threadbare consultancy: Straining budget margins in for-profit international development programmes	25
Effective altruism, technoscience and the making of philanthropic value	25
Nigel Dodd: An appreciation	23
Elite philanthropy in global capitalism: Accumulation to authoritarianism	23
Gendered labour produces finance: Navigating profits and care as intermediaries of finance	23
‘Creating Beauty’: Collagen’s speculative processes from waste to wellness	22
Contested values: Economic expertise in the comparable worth controversy, USA, 1979–1989	21
Expedient economization: Performing emissions trading in the United States, 1960–1990	20
Social prescribing and the search for value in health care	18
Rhythms of debt: Lived temporalities of over-indebted young adults in Sweden	18
The state of the state	17
Rhythms of growth: Unpacking infrastructure and geopolitics in the Balkans	17
The temporalities of prices: ‘Value-based pricing’ in pharmaceutical markets	17
‘Socialist money’: Power, temporality and historical change in postwar Hungary	12
The rise of the owners and the neo-accumulationist imaginary: Changing perceptions of private wealth in Finnish business media, 1981–2021	11
Expectations, competencies and domain knowledge in data- and machine-driven finance	10
Beds for rent	9

Occult enemies of the market order	9
Towards a unified labour value theory of inflation	9
Towards neo-structural socialism? Social profit and dependency in Venezuelan state enterprise	9
Designing freedom: Allende, Pinochet and the twin experiments in cyber-socialism and neoliberalism	8
The business of protection: Insuring urban violence risks in contemporary Brazil	8
Extracting care from women on the move: Nuances of exploitation in bordering and marketized care in the EU	8
The expansionary strategies of intellectual monopolies: Google and the digitalization of healthcare	8
Projects of transition	8
(Post-)growth infrastructures	7
The weaponry of racial capitalism: Gargi Bhattacharyya (2024) The futures of racial capitalism (Polity)	7
The longest second: Header bidding and the material politics of online advertising	7
Fiscal policy as credit policy: Homeownership subsidization and the household debt boom	7
Assetization as a mode of techno-economic governance: Knowledge, education and personal data in the UN's System of National Accounts	6
From jurisdiction to veridiction: Expertise and economization of immunization policy in the United States	6
Narrating imagined crises: How central bank storytelling exerts infrastructural power	6
China’s social credit system and the family: Punishment and collective resistance	6
The dynamic imaginaries of the Ethereum project	6
A little street vending stall in the metropolis: Designerly intervention and urban governance in Seoul	5
Labour market dualization, permanent insecurity and fertility: The case of ultra-low fertility in South Korea	5
The cruelty of banality: Necro-economics and global letting die	5
Economizing chemical compounds: The production of qualities in Turkish olive oil	5
Debt at a distance: Counter-collection strategies and financial subjectivities of China’s working-class defaulters during COVID-19	5
Bloomberg and the GameStop saga: The fear of stock market democracy	5
Automating authenticity: Influencer marketing platforms and the socio-technical stratification of creative gig labour markets	5
Public, libre, commons: On the logics, logistics and locations of democratic participation in the digital age	5
Capitalization of social mobility in India: Venture capital in edtech-fintech combines	5
Debt/growth infrastructures: Financialization and state capitalism in Medellín	5
Compensating a contested labour: The price of commercial surrogacy in the United States	4
Ecologization, part 1: Towards assets-actifs and care practices	4
‘The mystery of Dublin’: Corporate profit-shifting and housing crisis in twenty-first century Ireland	4
Understanding generational housing inequalities beyond tenure, class and context	4
Growth at risk: Boundary walkers, stylized facts and the legitimacy of countercyclical interventions	4
Why does capitalism feel so right? Ethical imaginaries of prison labour and sisterhood solidarity	4
Post-growth tokens or token post-growth? Bitcoin, alt-coins and infrastructural evolution in digital finance	4
Rolling the dice: Capitalism, trafficking and speculation across the Western Mediterranean	4
In trust we share: The politics of financial intelligence sharing	4
The Brazilian property developer as a ‘platypus’: Rentier-merchant capitalism in times of shareholder value	4
The corporate welfare turn of state capitalism in France: Reassessing state intervention in the French economy, 1945–2022	4
Home care provision in dispute: Digital platforms and worker cooperatives in Spain	4
Subscription’s entanglements	3
Dependence on independence: Central bank lawyers and the (un)making of the European economy	3
Technically speaking: How the Gates Foundation governs ‘women’s health’ in India	3
Risk, value, vitality: The moral economy of a global behavioural insurance platform	3
Metaverses and virtual real estate markets: The commodification and assetization of the digital	3
‘Land makes me feel so secure’: Property, dependence and escape from ‘wageless life’ on Nairobi’s peri-urbanizing peripheries	3
Life as debt, or debt to life? Water, finance and infrastructure	3
Waiting and the gendered boundaries of work among India's poor	3
Futures work: Liliana Doganova (2024) Discounting the future: The ascendency of a political technology (Zone Books)	3
Export taxes in Argentina: Embedded ideas of state interventionism	3
Capital, networks and ideas: How philanthropy sustains right-wing populism in Canada	3

Cruising towards growth: Redefining public benefit through privatized transport infrastructure