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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaped by boom-and-bust: a history of the Canadian mining industry since 1859	65
Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models	41
Understanding the roles of decommodification in socioecological transformations: a new theoretical approach	38
Correction	37
Post-neoliberalism? The strange case of the new English Freeports	31
Why Africa turns to China: colonial legacies and the new politics of development finance	30
The political economy of ultra-activity in collective bargaining: explaining divergent post-crisis trajectories in Portugal and Spain	29
Face-to-face fundraising and the dialectics of appearance	29
Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions	26
Asset struggles: understanding conflict in contemporary capitalist societies	25
Beyond banking? an institutional logics perspective on the European Investment Bank’s approach to fragile states	25
On the links between climate scepticism and right-wing populism (RWP): an explanatory approach based on cultural political economy (CPE)	25
The financialisation of car consumption	23
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	23
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	22
A progressive framework for green industrial policy	21
Not so different after all? household attitudes toward financialisation in Germany and the United Kingdom	20
A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East	19
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries	19
Strategies of neoliberal knowledge production: how did free-market think tanks react to the COVID-19 pandemic?	19
Technovation futures and state activism: configuring the United Kingdom’s economic statecraft	19
Significance of economic openness for the origins of social insurance policies in the initial stage: a comparative study	18
Platform disempowerment: business power and the taxation of digital financial services	18
In the name of risk: asset concentration and the rise of the master trust in Ireland	16
The repoliticisation of China’s infrastructure investments in the global south: a case study of Brazil’s agri-food system	16

Evaluating democratic innovations through a participatory decommodification index	16
Political independence through monetary dependence? The case of Montenegro	14
Is the grass really greener on the other side? Parliamentary oversight of the European Central Bank and the Fed	14
Feminist finance? The agendas and economies of gender lens investing	14
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme	14
What we value and why it matters: a historical overview of GDP, the production boundary and unpaid household labour	14
Diversity, solidarity and the construction of the ingroup among (post)colonial migrants in The Netherlands, 1945–1968	13
The state and the legalisation of illicit financial flows: trading gold in Bolivia	13
Ideological dance on a scorched land: the political economy of underdevelopment in Rojhelat (East Kurdistan)	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?	12
Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry	12
Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative	11
The politics of student loan in Turkey: regimenting the youth through authoritarian debtfarism	11
The Weberian ideal type in political economy: obsolete match or fruitful encounter?	11
International financialisation in emerging economies: the impact of financial openness, financial inflows, global production networks and global financial centres	11
Social relations and worker resistance in the platform economy: towards a future research agenda	11
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy	11
Correction	10
Populist strategy revisited: toward a coalitional framework of populist mobilisation	10
“Like a pancake on wet pavement”: everyday resonance, asymmetric mobilisation, and the failure of alternatives to neoliberalism in Western Europe, 1973–83	10
The depoliticisation of money: specifying the loss of political designability	10
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	10
The political economy of economic upgrading in Central Eastern Europe	9
Dismantling the anti-politics machine in aid: political mētis and its limits	9
Central banks’ knowledge controversies	9
Indie economics: social purpose, lay expertise and the unusual rise of modern monetary theory	9
A morphological analysis of Brexitism	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
Walking a fine line: Germany and the question of imperialism	8
Power resources and the last-mile problem in logistics: reflections on a Swiss labour struggle	8
Depoliticising monetary tightening: how the European Central Bank managed the 2021–2023 inflation shock	8
Why didn’t Europe securitise more? The institutionalisation of covered bonds as an efficient instrument for financialisation	8
FinTech as a state-orchestrated strategy: redefining financialization of households in Argentina	8
Too contested to avoid, too complex to normalise: the politics of integrating financial stability considerations into the ECB’s monetary policy	8
Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States	8
Decarbonising states as owners	8
The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases	8
An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions	8
The political economy of infrastructure failure	8
Interpreting spillovers: the ECB, Fed interest rate hikes, and the persistence of dollar dominance	7
Towards a degrowth transition: bringing interests back in	7
Everyday asset struggles: debt work, social reproduction and the (new) logics of inequality	7
UK pension funds’ patience and liquidity in the age of market-based finance	7
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	7
Protect or punish debtors? Policymaker discourse on the state’s role in personal debt governance	7
The social and political bases of political economy: interpreting and periodising Italian developments since WWII	7
Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement	6
Decoupling climate change: winter tourism and the maintenance of regional growth	6

From lending to spending of last resort: the epistemology of book-keeping as infrastructural form	6
Is China financialised? The significance of two historic transformations of Chinese finance	6
Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown	6
The political economy of post-reproduction society	6
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
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	5
Market reforms or institutional restoration? Anti-populist strategies in power	5
Disciplining of Roma workers through predatory debt in Czechia	5
Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India	5
Crisis management, new constitutionalism, and depoliticisation: recasting the politics of austerity in the US and UK, 2010–16	5
Status quo crisis again? RMB challenges and dollar hegemony	5
Strategic repoliticisation: inflation, blame, and the fracturing of democratic accountability in the United States	5
Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation	5
Chokepoint asymmetry and the political economy of constraint: infrastructural power, weaponised interdependence, and the UK	5
States of transition: a political economy approach	5
Accounting for whom? The financialisation of the environmental economic transition	5
Polanyi in rural China: beyond the double movement	5
When neoliberalism meets technocracy: intra-elite conflict and the realignment of Britain’s macroeconomic regime under Liz Truss	5
Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero	5
Centimanes v. Titans: right-wing populist governments’ treatment of foreign multinationals in East Central Europe	4
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models: how modelling contributed to neoliberal resilience in Denmark	4
China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC): an assessment of money and power relations	4
Challenging boundaries: exploring pricing strategies, and unpaid labour time to explain earning disparities in online labour markets	4
Feminism, innovative finance and the Equality Fund: doing well while doing good?	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
Rentier capitalism in the Chilean economy: disconnection between surplus capture and productive investment	4
Culture & European attitudes on public debt	4
Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology	4
The Eurozone’s contradiction: how the power of finance subordinates the periphery and threatens monetary integration	4
The whiteness of markets: Anglo-American colonialism, white supremacy and free market rhetoric	4
Financing businesses: an affair of state? Rise and financialisation of public financing for small and medium-sized enterprises in France	4
Between export-led growth and administrative Keynesianism: Italy’s two-tiered growth regime	4
Challenges and pathways to inclusive low-carbon development in South Africa: a political settlements analysis	4
Militarised neoliberalism and the reconstruction of the global political economy	3
Why federalism matters: policy feedback, institutional variation and the politics of trade policy-making in Canada and Germany	3
‘Saving the WTO’: middle power insiders and joint statement initiatives at the World Trade Organisation	3
Adapting to the market: leftist ideological justifications of liberal economic policies, 1977–1986	3
Fictitious money: cryptocurrency as a social form	3
How technocratic is the power elite? A new approach and evidence from a mixed-method study of the Danish power elite	3
Towards transnational agrarian conflicts? Global NGOs, transnational agrobusiness and local struggles for land on Sumatra	3
Re-politicising merger policy: regulating foreign takeovers in Britain and Italy	3
The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’	3
International finance institutions and the public-private partnership dilemma	3
Perpetuity and spend-down: the role of investment and technological transitions in philanthropy	3
The transformation of resource-rich countries in the International Division of Labour: ‘backward' industrialisation and relative surplus population in Uzbekistan	3
A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work	3
Performing energy: the International Energy Agency and the conflicting imaginaries of capitalist energy transition	3
Unravelling connections: energy, economic growth, and decoupling through a historical lens	3
The comparative political economy of job creation: European growth and employment models	3
Are foreign stock investors politically responsive? Evidence from the 2012 South Korean presidential election	3
Beyond the North–South divide: transnational coalitions in EU reforms	2
From NAFTA to USMCA: revisiting the market access – policy space trade-off	2
Knowledge regulation and US centrality in the semiconductor production network	2
Two paths of Fordism: divergent industrialisation in the two Koreas	2
Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation	2
Algorithmic governance or extortion? Everyday experiences of fintech for loans in Nigeria	2
Divisions in the core of global capitalism? Italian labour and ‘free trade’	2
Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach	2
Phantom decoupling: geoeconomic hydraulics and the rewiring of US–China interdependence	2
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation	2
Conceptualising private fintech platforms as financial statecraft and recentralisation in China	2
Curating reflexivity: industry events and the performative politics of alternative finance	2
Capitalist reforms and extreme poverty in China: unprecedented progress or income deflation?	2
Financing ‘sustainable welfare’: a critical review of the options	2
The economics of human development, the new (old) ‘witches’, and the government of social reproduction	2
Special section introduction: epistemic politics in international and comparative political economy	2
The myth of catch-up development: trends in core–periphery inequality from 1960 to 2023	2
How can public policies facilitate local cooperation? insights from the EU’s wine policy	2
When do business associations want a hard trade-sustainability nexus? A framework of analysis and the EU case	2
Incumbent popularity and the political life of Chinese megaprojects	2
Rethinking predation under financialisation through the history of subprime mortgages: a case of raiding finance	2