Mark Blyth
· The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Director of Rhodes CenterBrown University · International and Public Affairs
Active 1997–2025
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About
Mark Blyth is a political economist, podcaster, and explainer. His website serves as a hub for his written work, spoken content, and podcast appearances. The site welcomes visitors interested in his academic and public contributions, providing access to his books, podcasts, and media engagements. The page emphasizes his role in explaining political and economic issues through various formats, including podcasts and written materials.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Computer Science
- Economics
- International trade
- Mathematics
- Market economy
- Economy
- Keynesian economics
- Macroeconomics
- Political economy
Selected publications
Black Swans, Lame Ducks, and the mystery of IPE's missing macroeconomy
Review of International Political Economy · 2017-03-04 · 289 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingBritain's BREXIT vote and Trump's victory in the US presidential elections sent shockwaves through the Western liberal establishment, including academia. Both events suggest yet another ‘rethinking’ of International Political Economy (IPE). Yet we have been here before. After the global financial crisis of 2008, ‘Open Economy Politics’ (OEP) was criticized for being unable to either anticipate or adequately explain the global financial crisis. Now that IPE has been caught short twice in a decade…
Perspectives on Politics · 2017-09-18 · 115 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorWhy do bad policy ideas persist over time? We trace the development of the euro’s governing ideas over fiscal and monetary policy in the face of mounting evidence that continued adherence to those ideas was economically deleterious. We argue that a specific form of social learning, framed by a retrospective recoding in 2010–2012 of Europe’s experience with fiscal rules in 2003–2005, drove European elites to pursue policies that were economically irrational but politically rational. As a result,…
New Political Economy · 2018-05-21 · 47 citations
articleSenior authorCorrespondingUsing newly declassified documents from the British Public Records Office, we argue that the finance-dependent growth regime that typified the UK economy in the period up to the Great Crash of 2008 has much deeper roots than is commonly realised. We use these documents to demonstrate that the growth of finance was integral to the Thatcher revolution, tying together mortgage markets, household debt, and boom-bust cycles as early as the mid-1980s. We also show how policy-makers in this period were…
Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 30 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingDonald Trump is a departure from the conventions of the US presidential politics, but from a comparative perspective, he is far from an outlier on the global stage. Instead, Trump is a manifestation of a global phenomenon that this chapter seeks to understand as a new type of politics: Global Trumpism. The backlash the Western democracies are witnessing is best understood as a reaction against a specific set of political and economic arrangements, which combine decreased competition in the polit…
11. The Political Power of Financial Ideas Transparency, Risk, and Distribution in Global Finance
Cornell University Press eBooks · 2019-03-14 · 16 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 9 shared
Jonathan Hopkin
London School of Economics and Political Science
- 7 shared
Matthias Matthijs
- 5 shared
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 4 shared
Nicolò Fraccaroli
- 4 shared
Eric Lonergan
- 3 shared
Rawi Abdelal
- 3 shared
Cornel Ban
- 2 shared
Wesley W. Widmaier
Australian National University
Awards & honors
- International Studies Association, International Political E…
- SWIPE Award for Mentoring Women in International Political E…
- 2018 European Politics Section of the American Political Sci…
- 2014 Hans Matthöffer Wirtschaftspublizistik-Preis, 'Wirtscha…
- Nominated for American Institute for Contemporary German Stu…
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