I am a political economist whose academic work focuses on financial regulation, transnational policy networks, and the role of private business in shaping global governance. A big focus of my work to date has involved analyzing the ways in which regulatory policy is affected by networks of elites and interest groups. I consider the empirical study of economic elites to be one of the most exciting research opportunities facing social scientists today.
Most of my published scholarship falls in line with the eclectic tradition of International Political Economy (IPE), which is a modern instantiation of the classical tradition of political economy that seeks to understand the operation of the material world given inequalities in power.
I earned my PhD from the London School of Economics in 2010. In 2011-2012 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University, and in 2012 I joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I currently work in the Department of Economics.
I grew up in Canada and I have lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Germany and the USA. I currently live in the wonderful town of Northampton, Massachusetts.
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