OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economy and Society is 4. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The New Permanent Universal Owners: Index funds, patient capital, and the distinction between feeble and forceful stewardship	55
Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets	40
Data money: The socio-technical infrastructure of cryptocurrency blockchains	32
Climate change and insurance	29
Housing and economic inequality in the long run: The retreat of owner occupation	29
Recentering central banks: Theorizing state-economy boundaries as central bank effects	26
Configuring the digital farmer: A nudge world in the making?	25
Does economics have an ‘Africa problem’?	22
Rescaling index insurance for climate and development in Africa	22
Life and debt: A view from the south	18
Governing urban resilience: Insurance and the problematization of climate change	16
Elinor Ostrom and public health	15
Bridges, platforms and satellites: Theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international development	14
Hazardous simulations: Pricing climate risk in US coastal insurance markets	14
Uncomfortable knowledge in central banking: Economic expertise confronts the visibility dilemma	14
Accumulation by immobilization: Migration, mobility and money in Libya	13
(De-)assetizing pharmaceutical patents: Patent contestations behind a blockbuster drug	13
Justifying inherited wealth: Between ‘the bank of mum and dad’ and the meritocratic ideal	12
Child labour, cobalt and the London Metal Exchange: Fetish, fixing and the limits of financialization	12
Institutionalizing neoclassical economics in Africa: Instruments, ideology and implications	11
State financialization: Permanent austerity, financialized real estate and the politics of public assets in Italy	11
Global health, accelerated: Rapid diagnostics and the fragile solidarities of ‘emergency R&D’	11
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom	10
What happened to the theory of African capitalism?	10
Europe’s ‘Hamiltonian moment’? On the political uses and explanatory usefulness of a recurrent historical comparison	10

Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis	9
Growth at risk: Boundary walkers, stylized facts and the legitimacy of countercyclical interventions	9
Beds for rent	9
Narrating imagined crises: How central bank storytelling exerts infrastructural power	8
The role played by large firms in generating income inequality: UK FTSE 100 pay practices in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries	8
Strategic ignorance and crises of trust: Un-anticipating futures and governing food supply chains in the shadow of Horsegate	8
The allure of finance: Social impact investing and the challenges of assetization in financialized capitalism	8
Living, not just surviving: The politics of refusing low-wage jobs in urban South Africa	8
Dependence on independence: Central bank lawyers and the (un)making of the European economy	7
Insurantialization and the moral economy ofex anterisk management in the Caribbean	7
The emergence of regulatory capitalism in Africa	7
Demodystopias: Narratives of ultra-low fertility in Asia	6
From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: How welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention	6
Insurance and the temporality of climate ethics: Accounting for climate change in US flood insurance	6
The (anti) politics of central banking: Monetary policy, class conflict and the limits of sovereignty in South Africa	6
Acceleration, development and technocapitalism at the Silicon Cape of Africa	6
More-than-national and less-than-global: The biochemical infrastructure of vaccine manufacturing	6
Machine learning and social action in markets: From first- to second-generation automated trading	6
Enacting a rational actor: Roboadvisors and the algorithmic performance of ideal types	6
Bloomberg and the GameStop saga: The fear of stock market democracy	5
Changing government in China through philanthropy: On socialist spiritual civilization, civilized cities and good communists	5
Carbon capital: The lexicon and allegories of US hydrocarbon finance	5
Independence without purpose? Macroprudential regulation at the Bundesbank	5
Resurgent charity and the neoliberalizing social	5
Economy and society in COVID times	5
Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years	5
‘Hodling’ on: Memetic storytelling and digital folklore within a cryptocurrency world	5
The expansionary strategies of intellectual monopolies: Google and the digitalization of healthcare	5
Gender-affirmative technologies and the contemporary making of gender in India	4
The marketization of the French public finance before capitalism: The paulette edict of 1604	4
Grounding urban production: Resident claims-making as financialization in Mumbai’s ‘slum’ lands	4
Understanding generational housing inequalities beyond tenure, class and context	4
Financialization and assetization: Assets as sites of financial power struggles	4
The dynamic imaginaries of the Ethereum project	4
The challenges of assets: Anatomy of an economic form	4