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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Speculation: a political economy of technologies of imagination	56
‘Responsible investment’: ESG and the post-crisis ethical order	56
Beyond surveillance capitalism: Privacy, regulation and big data in Europe and China	44
Financialization with Chinese characteristics? Exchanges, control and capital markets in authoritarian capitalism	43
The New Permanent Universal Owners: Index funds, patient capital, and the distinction between feeble and forceful stewardship	30
Neo-socialist governmentality: managing freedom in the People’s Republic of China	26
Data money: The socio-technical infrastructure of cryptocurrency blockchains	22
On why Uber has not taken over the world	21
‘Meaningless work’: How the datafication of health reconfigures knowledge about work and erodes professional judgement	20
Assembling Amaravati: speculative accumulation in a new Indian city	19
Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets	19
The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money	17
Configuring the digital farmer: A nudge world in the making?	16
Real estate speculation: volatile social forms at a global frontier of capital	16
Migrant workers, ‘modern slavery’ and the politics of representation in Italian tomato production	15
Speculating on sovereignty: ‘money mining’ and corporate foreign policy at the extractive industry frontier	15
Does economics have an ‘Africa problem’?	15
Speculations on infrastructure: from colonial public works to a post-colonial global asset class on the Indian railways 1840–2017	14
Rescaling index insurance for climate and development in Africa	14
Housing and economic inequality in the long run: The retreat of owner occupation	14
Connecting risk: Systemic risk from finance to the digital	13
Climate change and insurance	13
Life and debt: A view from the south	12
A journey through ‘infraspace’: The financial architecture of infrastructure	11
Recentering central banks: Theorizing state-economy boundaries as central bank effects	11

The moral economy of work: Demanding jobs and deserving money in South Africa	11
Governing urban resilience: Insurance and the problematization of climate change	10
Thick claims and thin rights: Taxation and the construction of analogue property rights in Lagos	9
The distribution of ignorance on financial markets	9
Speculative substance: ‘physical gold’ in finance	9
On the property of blockchains: comments on an emerging literature	9
Institutionalizing neoclassical economics in Africa: Instruments, ideology and implications	8
Beyond performativity: Material futures of finance	8
Accumulation by immobilization: Migration, mobility and money in Libya	7
The role played by large firms in generating income inequality: UK FTSE 100 pay practices in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries	7
Bridges, platforms and satellites: Theorizing the power of global philanthropy in international development	6
Growth at risk: Boundary walkers, stylized facts and the legitimacy of countercyclical interventions	6
(De-)assetizing pharmaceutical patents: Patent contestations behind a blockbuster drug	6
Suspensory indebtedness: time, morality and power asymmetry in experiences of consumer debt	6
The emergence of regulatory capitalism in Africa	6
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom	6
What happened to the theory of African capitalism?	6
Hazardous simulations: Pricing climate risk in US coastal insurance markets	6
Elinor Ostrom and public health	6
Narrating imagined crises: How central bank storytelling exerts infrastructural power	5
Living, not just surviving: The politics of refusing low-wage jobs in urban South Africa	5
Global health, accelerated: Rapid diagnostics and the fragile solidarities of ‘emergency R&D’	5
Acceleration, development and technocapitalism at the Silicon Cape of Africa	5
Strategic ignorance and crises of trust: Un-anticipating futures and governing food supply chains in the shadow of Horsegate	5
Insurantialization and the moral economy of ex ante risk management in the Caribbean	5
From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: How welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention	5
Uncomfortable knowledge in central banking: Economic expertise confronts the visibility dilemma	5
Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years	5
The reproduction of capital through financial education	4
Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis	4
Economy and society in COVID times	4
Traders of gametes, brokers of values: Mediating commercial gamete donations in Delhi	4
Enacting a rational actor: Roboadvisors and the algorithmic performance of ideal types	4
Independence without purpose? Macroprudential regulation at the Bundesbank	4
All that is solid melts into code	4
Europe’s ‘Hamiltonian moment’? On the political uses and explanatory usefulness of a recurrent historical comparison	4