OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of New Political Economy 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Broad strokes towards a grand theory in the analysis of sustainable development: a return to the classical political economy	96
Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era: Quantifying Drain from the Global South Through Unequal Exchange, 1960–2018	94
Fossilised Capital: Price and Profit in the Energy Transition	61
Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change	45
Power and the Practice of Transnational Private Regulation	40
Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy	40
Platform power and regulatory politics: Polanyi for the twenty-first century	39
Seeing and Not-seeing Like a Political Economist: The Historicity of Contemporary Political Economy and its Blind Spots	36
Germany’s Industrial strategy 2030, EU competition policy and the Crisis of New Constitutionalism. (Geo-)political economy of a contested paradigm shift	29
Governing Fintech and Fintech as Governance: The Regulatory Sandbox, Riskwashing, and Disruptive Social Classification	28
Additionality and Implementation Gaps in Voluntary Sustainability Standards	27
Disrupting the Welfare State? Digitalisation and the Retrenchment of Public Sector Capacity	26
The Great Debt Divergence and its Implications for the Covid-19 Crisis: Mapping Corporate Leverage as Power	26
The Diversity of Economic Nationalism	25
Zero carbon as economic restructuring: spatial divisions of labour and just transition	25
Trump & Trade: The Crisis in the Multilateral Trading System	23
The Ineffectiveness of CSR: Understanding Garment Company Commitments to Living Wages in Global Supply Chains	21
The Eurozone’s Evolving Fiscal Ecosystem: Mitigating Fiscal Discipline by Governing Through Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies	20
Enoch Powell: Britain’s First Neoliberal Politician	20
Business elites and populism: understanding business responses	19
The EU as catalytic state? Rethinking European climate and energy governance	19
Pushing on a String: Monetary Policy, Growth Models and the Persistence of Low Inflation in Advanced Capitalism	17
Grounding the Politics of Transnational Private Governance: Introduction to the Special Section	17
Too green to be true? Forging a climate consensus at the European Central Bank	17
Light at the End of the Panel: The Gaza Strip and the Interplay Between Geopolitical Conflict and Renewable Energy Transition	16

Bitcoin as a digital commodity	15
New frontiers of electricity capital: energy access in sub-Saharan Africa	15
Managing Macroeconomic Neoliberalism: Capital and the Resilience of the Rational Expectations Assumption since the Great Recession	15
Did the ‘Real’ Economy Turn Financial? Mapping the Contours of Financialisation in the Non-Financial Corporate Sector	14
Participation of Civil Society in EU Trade Policy Making: How Inclusive is Inclusion?	14
Tensions between individual and system change in the climate movement: an analysis of Extinction Rebellion	13
Diffusion of Practice: The Curious Case of the Sino-German Technical Standardisation Partnership	13
The Antisemitic Backlash to Financial Power: Conspiracy Theory as a Response to Financial Complexity and Crisis	13
The End of Austerity as Common Sense? An Experimental Analysis of Public Opinion Shifts and Class Dynamics During the Covid-19 Crisis	13
Resilience in the City of London: the fate of UK financial services after Brexit	12
Selective Neoliberalism: How Italy Went from Dualization to Liberalisation in Labour Market and Pension Reforms	12
Trade Paradiplomacy and the Politics of International Economic Law: The Inclusion of Quebec and the Exclusion of Wallonia in the CETA Negotiations	12
Explaining divergent National Responses to Covid-19: An Enhanced State Capacity Framework	12
Growth models in Europe’s Eastern and Southern peripheries: between national and EU politics	11
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: the case of Macquarie in Britain's water and energy networks	11
Comparative capitalisms in the Anthropocene: a research agenda for green transition	11
Experts versus representatives? Financialised valuation and institutional change in financial governance	10
Institutions, Ideation, and Diffusion of Japan’s and China’s Overseas Infrastructure Promotion Policies	10
Understanding Queer Oppression and Resistance in the Global Economy: Towards a Theoretical Framework for Political Economy	10
Seeing like a macroeconomist: varieties of formalisation, professional incentives and academic ideational change	10
A social reproduction analysis of digital care platform work	9
Accounting for whom? The financialisation of the environmental economic transition	9
#DeleteFacebook: From Popular Protest to a New Model of Platform Capitalism?	9
Decarbonising states as owners	9
The World Bank, Agricultural Credit, and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Global Development	9
The Power of Finance in the Age of Market Based Banking	9
The Trade (Policy) Discourse in Top Economics Journals	8
Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry	8
The Politics of Fiscal Legitimacy in Developmental States: Emergency Taxes in Argentina Under Kirchnerism	7
The Political Economy of Climate Change Litigation: Is There a Point to Suing Fossil Fuel Companies?	7
Shareholder payouts across time and space: an internationally comparative and cross-sectoral analysis of corporate financialisation	7
Resilience, discipline and financialisation in the UK’s liberal welfare state	7
Governing Global Liquidity: Federal Reserve Swap Lines and the International Dimension of US Monetary Policy	7
Rethinking the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Trade Politics	6
The last subsidy: regulating devaluation in the German coal phase-out	6
‘Making financial sense of the future’: actuaries and the management of climate-related financial risk	6
External enablers of Eurozone austerity: exploring the link between the ease of suppressing domestic spending and trading partners’ demand	6
The Governance of Social Risks: Nurturing Social Solidarity through Social Impact Bonds?	6
Making Sense of Populist Nationalism	6
Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown	6
On Cultural Political Economy: A Defence and Constructive Critique	6
Rival definitions of economic rent: historical origins and normative implications	6
Reactive, Individualistic and Disciplinary: The Urban Resilience Project in Dhaka	6
Tools to tame the financialisation of housing	6
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy	6
South-South monetary regionalism: a case of productive incoherence?	6
Friends and foes: rethinking the party and Chinese big tech	6
Conceptualising state financialisation: from the core to the periphery	6
Reconceptualising freedom in the 21st century: neoliberalism vs. degrowth	5
Socialism and the Market: Returning to the East European Debate	5

Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach	5
Neglected Chinese Origins of East Asian Developmentalism	5
Structuring the Interstitial Space of Global Financing Partnerships for Sustainable Development: A Network Analysis	5
Can the anti-politics machine be dismantled?	5
Credible interventionism: economic ideas of government and macroeconomic policy in the Great Recession	5
Imputing Away the Ladder: Implications of Changes in GDP Measurement for Convergence Debates and the Political Economy of Development	5
Macroeconomic ingredients for a growth model analysis for peripheral economies: a post-Keynesian-structuralist approach	5
Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation	5
Small Firms as the Main Beneficiaries of Trade Agreements? A Framing Analysis of European Commission Discourse	4
Modern finance theory and practice and the Anthropocene	4
Europeanisation as a driver of dependent financialisation in East-Central Europe: insights from the Baltic states	4
Human Rights and Corporate Reinsurance: From Ensuring Rights to Insuring Risks	4
Monetary Policy as Usual? The Bank of England’s Extraordinary Monetary Policies and the Disciplining of Labour	4
Karl Polanyi’s ‘socialist accounting’ and ‘overview’ in the age of data analytics	4
Studying the relationship between social policy promotion and neoliberalism: the case of social investment	4
The de-globalisation of capital? The political economy of community wealth building	4
The Structure–Agency Relation of Growth Imperative Hypotheses in a Credit Economy	4
The gendered construction of risk in asset accumulation for retirement	4
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models: how modelling contributed to neoliberal resilience in Denmark	4
Sino-Japanese Engagement in the Making of China’s National Champions	4
Gambling and Political Economy, Revisited	4
The economic local turn in peace and conflict studies: economic peacebuilding interventions and the everyday	4
Building the weak hand of the state: tracing the market boundaries of high pharmaceutical prices in France	4
Imaginary failure: RegTech in finance	4
Towards an ‘Everyday’ Cultural Political Economy of English Football: Conceptualising the Futures of Wembley Stadium and the Grassroots Game	4
Local Grounding of Transnational Private Governance Authority: Translation, Contestation, Legitimation and Communities of Practice	4
Freedom, domination and the gig economy	4
Shaping planetary health inequities: the political economy of the Australian growth model	4
Offshoring the Uncovered Liability Problem: Currency Hierarchies, State-Owned Settlement Banks and the Offshore Market for Renminbi	4
Militarised neoliberalism and the reconstruction of the global political economy	3
Governing public credit creation	3
Imaginary capital migration and the competitive politics of corporate taxation	3
Capitalist reforms and extreme poverty in China: unprecedented progress or income deflation?	3
State/Nation Histories, Structural Inequalities and Racialised Crises	3
Conceptualising private fintech platforms as financial statecraft and recentralisation in China	3
The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’	3
Towards a reparative welfare state	3
When the means become the ends: Ghana’s ‘good governance’ electricity reform overwhelmed by the politics of power crises	3
Limits to the financialisation of the state: exploring obstructions to social impact bonds as a form of financialised statecraft in the UK, Israel, and Canada	3
Keep it complex! Prodi’s curse and the EU fiscal governance regime complex	3
Networks of knowledge production and mobility in the world of social impact bonds	3
Fictitious capital, the credit system, and the particular case of government bonds in Marx	3
The politics of student loan in Turkey: regimenting the youth through authoritarian debtfarism	3
Everyday Political Economy of Human Rights to Health: Dignity and Respect as an Approach to Gendered Inequalities and Accountability	3
Towards a sociology of state investment funds? sovereign wealth funds and state-business relations in Saudi Arabia	3
China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC): an assessment of money and power relations	3
Collaboration, Adaptation, or Disruption? Wall Street, Fintech and Corporate Bond Trading	3
A Critical Node: The Role of China in the Transnational Circulation of Developmentalist Ideas, Policies and Practices	3