The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to refocus scholarly attention on the
politics of crisis. Crises that abruptly upend political and economic relations are important …

The dominant approach to the study of international political economy assumes that the
policy preferences of individuals and groups reflect economic self-interest. Recent research …

In its capacity as debt issuer, the state has played a growing role in financial life over the last
30 years. To examine this role and connect it to shadow banking, the paper develops the …

International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic
Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption …

The distinction between uncertainty and risk, originally drawn by Frank Knight and John
Maynard Keynes in the 1920s, remains fundamentally important today. In the presence of …

Starting from an observation about the high-profile predictive failures of Value-at-Risk (VaR),
an internationally instituted financial risk model, this article has attempted to make sense of …

The rise of central bankers to the status of new 'masters of the universe'has been matched
by mounting allegations of political overreach. In the Eurozone, for instance, the European …

Worldviews are the unexamined, pre-theoretical foundations of the approaches with which
we understand and navigate the world, and this volume provides the first major study of …

Dealing with uncertainty has become a matter of great concern for policy makers and
scientific research in a world facing global, epochal and complex changes. But in essence …

This paper studies research interests, paradigmatic orientation and political involvement
among roughly 700 full professors of economics at universities located in German-speaking …