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“Decarbonizing National Growth Models: ‘Hobbled States,’ and the Decarbonization Possibility Frontier,” contribution to a Special Issue of the Review of International Political Economy on De-risking and Decarbonization – with Daniel Driscoll
2025
“There’s More to National Economies than the National Economy: Accountants, Imperials, and the City in GM Research,” with Aidan Regan.
2024
“What Do Central Bankers Talk About When They Talk About Inflation? The Rise and Fall of Inflation Narratives,” contribution to a Special Issue of New Political Economy, Summer 2024, (with Vincent Arel-Bundock and Nicolo Fraccaroli).
2024
“Macrofinance and the Green Transformation: Nudging, Attracting, and Coercing Capital Towards Decarbonization,” Introduction to the Special Issue on Derisking and Decarbonization, Review of International Political Economy, with Leah Downey
2024
“Labour’s Search for Credibility,” The Institute for Public Policy Research Review, 30
2023
“How Should we Think about Modern Capitalism? A Growth Models Approach,” (with Lucio Bacarro and Jonas Pontusson), Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research, 28 (4)
2023
“ Brexit and the ties that bind: how global finance shapes city-level growth models,” with Aiden Ragan and Nicolo Fraccaroli, European Journal of Public Policy 30 (10)
2023
“In Search of Varieties of Capitalism: Hardy Perennial or Troublesome Weed,” Review of Keynesian Economics (Summer 2022), with Mark Herman Schwartz
2022
“Hocus Pocus: A Response to Mallaby’s, ‘The Era of Magic Money.” Foreign Affairs
2020
“From Big Bang to Big Crash: The Early Origins of the UK’s Finance-led Growth Model and the Persistence of Bad Policy Ideas,” New Political Economy, with Tami Oren.
2018
“The Global Economics of European Populism: Growth Regimes and Party System Change in Europe,” Government and Opposition, vol. 54, no. 2, April 2019 pp. 193-225,
2018
“When is it Rational to Learn the Wrong Lessons? Technocratic Authority, Social Learning, and Euro Fragility,” (with Matthias Matthijs), Perspectives on Politics. Volume 16 (1)
2018
“Black Swans, Lame Ducks, and the Mystery of IPE’s Missing Macro-Economy,” The Review of International Political Economy, 24 (2) (2017) pp. 203-231, with Matthias Matthijs.
2017
“After the Brits Have Gone: How to Turn a Drama into a Crisis that Will Not go to Waste.” The Review of European Economic Policy, 50th Anniversary Issue
2016
“Capitalism in Crisis: What Went Wrong and What Comes Next” Foreign Affairs
2016
“Policies to Overcome Stagnation: The Crisis, and the Possible Futures, of All Things Euro.” European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, Vol. 13 No. 2
2016
“The New Ideas Scholarship in the Mirror of Historical Institutionalism: A Case of Old Whines in New Bottles?” European Journal of Public Policy
2015
“Print Less but Transfer More: Why Central Banks Should Give Money Directly to the People,” Foreign Affairs
2014
“A Curious Case of Caveats and Causes: Some Thoughts on the Causal Story of Banking Across Boundaries,” Environment and Planning, Symposium Contribution
2014
“Constructivism and the Study of International Political Economy in China,” Review of International Political Economy, 20 (6)
2013
“The BRICs and the Washington Consensus: An Introduction,” Special Issue of the Review of International Political Economy, 20 (2)
2013
“The Austerity Delusion: How a Dangerous Idea Won Over the West,” Foreign Affairs, April/May 2013: 41-56.
2013
“Austerity as Ideology: A Reply to my Critics,” Comparative European Politics, 11 (6)
2013
“Paradigms and Paradox: The Politics of Economics Ideas in Two Moments of Crisis.” Governance, 24 (2)
2012
“What Can Okun Teach Polanyi? Efficiency, Regulation and Equality in the OECD” Review of International Political Economy
2012
“The Ghosts of Corporatism’s Past and Past Corporatisms,” Capitalism and Society: 5 (3)
2011
“The Black Swan of Cairo: How Suppressing Volatility Makes the World Less Predictable and More Dangerous,” Foreign Affairs, 90 (3)
2011
“Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Institutions”, The Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 7 (3) September 2011, pp. 1-17, with Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Orion Lewis, and Sven Steinmo.
2011
“What if Most Swans are Black? The Unsettling World of Nassim Taleb,” Critical Review
2010
“Torn Between Two Lovers: Caught in the Middle of British and American IPE,” New Political Economy, 14 (3)
2009
“The Secret Life of Institutions: On the Role of Ideas in Evolving Economic Systems,”
2008
“The Politics of Compounding Bubbles: The Global Housing Bubble in Comparative Perspective,” Comparative Europe
2008
“Beyond the Usual Suspects: Ideas, Uncertainty, and Building Institutional Orders,” International Studies Quarterly, 51 (4) D
2008
“The Social Construction of Wars and Crises as Mechanisms of Change” International Studies Quarterly 51 (4) pp. 747-759
2007
“Great Punctuations: Prediction, Randomness, and the Evolution of Comparative Political Science,” American Political Science Review 100 (4) pp. 493-498
2006
“From Catch all Politics to Cartelization: The Political Economy of the Cartel Party,” Western European Politics 28 (1) pp. 34-61 (with Richard S. Katz).
2005
“Globalization Didn’t Make You Do It! Understanding Social Democratic Party Choices” (“La Globalizzazione e il Mutamento della Social Democrazia”) Meridiana - Rivista di Storia e Scienze Sociali, Vol. 50-51 (2005), pp. 41-70. Special issue on ‘Reformism and Counter-Reformism in Europe’
2005
“Domestic Institutions and the Possibility of Social Democracy,” Comparative European Politics, 3 (4) pp. 379-407
2005
“The Great Transformation in Understanding Polanyi: A Response to Hejeebu and McCloskey,” Critical Review 16 (1) pp. 117-130
2004
“Our Past as Prolog: Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Special Issue of the Review of International Political Economy 10 (4) December 2003, pp. 607-620. (With Hendrik Spruyt)
2003
“Structures do not Come with an Instruction Sheet: Interests, Ideas and Progress in Political Science,” Perspectives on Politics 1 (4), pp. 695-703
2003
“Same as it Never Was? Typology and Temporality in the Varieties of Capitalism,” Comparative European Politics 1 (2) Summer 2003, pp. 215-225.
2003
“Globalization and the Limits of Democratic Choice: Social Democracy and the Rise of Political Cartelization” Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft - International Politics and Society 6 (3) July 2003, pp. 60-82.
2003
“From Comparative Capitalism to Economic Constructivism,” New Political Economy 8 (2) July 2003, pp. 263-274.
2003
“Globalization and the Limits of Democratic Choice: Social Democracy and the Rise of Political Cartelization” Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft - International Politics and Society 6 (3) July 2003, pp. 60-82.
2003
“The Transformation of the Swedish Model: Economic Ideas, Distributional Conflict and Institutional Change,” World Politics 54 (1) October 2001, pp. 1-26.
2001
“The Ghost in the Machine? The Specter of Marx in the Matrix,” Politologiske Studere 4 (4) December 2001, pp. 86-91 (with Robin Varghese).
2001
“The State of the Discipline in American Political Science: Be Careful What You Wish For?” British Journal of Politics and International Relations 1 (3) October 1999, pp. 345-365 (with Robin Varghese).
1999
“Any More Bright Ideas? The Ideational Turn of Comparative Political Economy,”Comparative Politics 29 (1) January 1997, pp. 229-250.
1997
“Moving the Political Middle: Redefining the Boundaries of State Action,” Political Quarterly July 1997, pp. 231-240.
1997

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