OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of New Political Economy is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models	227
Shaped by boom-and-bust: a history of the Canadian mining industry since 1859	88
Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy	66
Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift	60
Face-to-face fundraising and the dialectics of appearance	52
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports	45
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	43
Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions	30
The financialisation of car consumption	30
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	20
On the links between climate scepticism and right-wing populism (RWP): an explanatory approach based on cultural political economy (CPE)	20
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries	20
Experts versus representatives? Financialised valuation and institutional change in financial governance	20
A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East	19
Not so different after all? household attitudes toward financialisation in Germany and the United Kingdom	19
Technovation futures and state activism: configuring the United Kingdom’s economic statecraft	18
A progressive framework for green industrial policy	18
The state and the legalisation of illicit financial flows: trading gold in Bolivia	17
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy	17
When the means become the ends: Ghana’s ‘good governance’ electricity reform overwhelmed by the politics of power crises	17
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
Political independence through monetary dependence? The case of Montenegro	16
Is the grass really greener on the other side? Parliamentary oversight of the European Central Bank and the Fed*	16
New frontiers of electricity capital: energy access in sub-Saharan Africa	15

Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry	15
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme	15
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative	13
Shareholder payouts across time and space: an internationally comparative and cross-sectoral analysis of corporate financialisation	13
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
‘Making financial sense of the future’: actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk	12
The politics of student loan in Turkey: regimenting the youth through authoritarian debtfarism	12
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy	12
Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change	11
The Weberian ideal type in political economy: obsolete match or fruitful encounter?	10
Correction	10
The political economy of economic upgrading in Central Eastern Europe	10
Central banks’ knowledge controversies	9
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	9
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory	9
Inclusion or co-optation? Navigating recruitment as a gender diversity candidate in finance	8
Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits	8
Depoliticising monetary tightening: how the European Central Bank managed the 2021–2023 inflation shock	8
Karl Polanyi’s ‘socialist accounting’ and ‘overview’ in the age of data analytics	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
Decarbonising states as owners	8
Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation	8
A morphological analysis of Brexitism	8
The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases	8
Power resources and the last-mile problem in logistics: reflections on a Swiss labour struggle	7
Keep it complex! Prodi’s curse and the EU fiscal governance regime complex	7
Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States	7
An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions	7
Too contested to avoid, too complex to normalise: the politics of integrating financial stability considerations into the ECB’s monetary policy	7
Walking a fine line: Germany and the question of imperialism	7
Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state’s role in personal debt governance	6
Towards a reparative welfare state	6
Decoupling climate change: winter tourism and the maintenance of regional growth	6
Tensions between individual and system change in the climate movement: an analysis of Extinction Rebellion	6
Towards a degrowth transition: bringing interests back in	6
UK pension funds’ patience and liquidity in the age of market-based finance	6
Is China financialised? The significance of two historic transformations of Chinese finance	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
The social and political bases of political economy: interpreting and periodising Italian developments since WWII	6
Building the weak hand of the state: tracing the market boundaries of high pharmaceutical prices in France	6
External enablers of Eurozone austerity: exploring the link between the ease of suppressing domestic spending and trading partners’ demand	6
Accounting for whom? The financialisation of the environmental economic transition	5
Polanyi in rural China: beyond the double movement	5
The political economy of post-reproduction society	5
Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown	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
Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement	5

Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India	5
A time of reproductive unrest: the articulation of capital accumulation, social reproduction, and the Irish state	5
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds	5
Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation	5
The last subsidy: regulating devaluation in the German coal phase-out	5
Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero	5
States of transition: a political economy approach	5
Imaginary capital migration and the competitive politics of corporate taxation	4
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
Challenging boundaries: exploring pricing strategies, and unpaid labour time to explain earning disparities in online labour markets	4
When neoliberalism meets technocracy: intra-elite conflict and the realignment of Britain’s macroeconomic regime under Liz Truss	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
Social reproduction theory and the capitalist ‘form’ of social reproduction	4
China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC): an assessment of money and power relations	4
Crisis management, new constitutionalism, and depoliticisation: recasting the politics of austerity in the US and UK, 2010–16	4
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models: how modelling contributed to neoliberal resilience in Denmark	4
Status quo crisis again? RMB challenges and dollar hegemony	4
The whiteness of markets: Anglo-American colonialism, white supremacy and free market rhetoric	4
The comparative political economy of job creation: European growth and employment models	3
Militarised neoliberalism and the reconstruction of the global political economy	3
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite	3
‘Saving the WTO’: middle power insiders and joint statement initiatives at the World Trade Organisation	3
Towards transnational agrarian conflicts? Global NGOs, transnational agrobusiness and local struggles for land on Sumatra	3
Unravelling connections: energy, economic growth, and decoupling through a historical lens	3
Culture & European attitudes on public debt	3
A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work	3
The transformation of resource-rich countries in the International Division of Labour: ‘backward' industrialisation and relative surplus population in Uzbekistan	3
Are foreign stock investors politically responsive? Evidence from the 2012 South Korean presidential election	3
Why federalism matters: policy feedback, institutional variation and the politics of trade policy-making in Canada and Germany	3
Challenges and pathways to inclusive low-carbon development in South Africa: a political settlements analysis	3
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism: Italy’s two-tiered growth regime	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
From NAFTA to USMCA: revisiting the market access – policy space trade-off	3
Adapting to the market: leftist ideological justifications of liberal economic policies, 1977–1986	3
Beyond the North–South divide: transnational coalitions in EU reforms	2
Conceptualising private fintech platforms as financial statecraft and recentralisation in China	2
Special section introduction: epistemic politics in international and comparative political economy	2
The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’	2
Algorithmic governance or extortion? Everyday experiences of fintech for loans in Nigeria	2
What do central bankers talk about when they talk about inflation? The rise and fall of inflation narratives	2
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation	2
Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach	2
The economics of human development, the new (old) ‘witches’, and the government of social reproduction	2
Curating reflexivity: industry events and the performative politics of alternative finance	2
Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation	2
Piercing the veil of monetarism: a decomposition of American inflation, 1970–1985	2
How can public policies facilitate local cooperation? insights from the EU’s wine policy	2
Two paths of Fordism: divergent industrialisation in the two Koreas	2
Rethinking predation under financialisation through the history of subprime mortgages: a case of raiding finance	2
When do business associations want a hard trade-sustainability nexus? A framework of analysis and the EU case	2
Capitalist reforms and extreme poverty in China: unprecedented progress or income deflation?	2
Addendum	2