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Mark McGann Blyth [email protected] Professional Positions 2014 – Present Eastman Professor of Political Economy Brown University, Providence RI (Joint Appointment between the Watson Institute for International Studies and the Department of Political Science) 2009-2014: Professor of International Political Economy Department of Political Science Brown University, Providence RI 2005-2009: Associate Professor of Political Science Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 1997-2005: Assistant Professor of Political Science Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD Education 1995-1999 Ph.D. Columbia University Political Science 1990-1991 Language Training Strathclyde University Russian Language 1986-1990 B.A. (First Class) Strathclyde University Political Science Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams: International Relations and Comparative Politics Dissertation: Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Political Change in the Twentieth Century. Awarded with distinction, May 1999 Research Interests International and Comparative Political Economy, the Politics of Finance, the Politics of Ideas, Institutional Change, Uncertainty and Complexity, the History of Political Economy. Publications Books: Single Author Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002). Arabic edition 2009, Chinese edition 2010. Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (New York: Oxford University Press 2013). Translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese (complex and simple), Korean, Arabic, German, Greek, Japanese, Croatian, Romanian and Turkish. Paperback edition of Austerity with new afterword published in 2015. 1 Awards for Austerity: Financial Times, ‘Books of the Year 2013’ – Economics List. The 2014 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik, “Wirtschaft. Weiter. Denken,” by the Matthöfer and Friedrich Ebert Foundations, Berlin, Germany. Reviews of Austerity: ‘How the Case for Austerity Crumbled’ New York Review of Books, by Paul Krugman, June 6th 2013. ‘The End of the Line,’ Financial Times, by Larry Summers, April 12th 2013. The New Yorker, by John Cassidy, May 20th 2013. Books: Edited The Future of the Euro (ed.), with Matthias Matthijs (New York: Oxford University Press 2015). Constructing the International Economy (ed.), with Rawi Abdelal and Craig Parsons (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2010). The Handbook of International Political Economy: IPE as a Global Conversation (ed.) (New York: Routledge Press 2009). The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education, (ed.) with William Lowe Boyd, and Charles Taylor Kerchner, (Cambridge: Harvard Education Press 2008). Published Journal Articles “Capitalism in Crisis: What Went Wrong and What Comes Next” Foreign Affairs, Summer 2016 “The New Ideas Scholarship in the Mirror of Historical Institutionalism: a Case of Old Whines in New Bottles?” European Journal of Public Policy, December 2015. “Print Less but Transfer More: Why Central Banks Should Give Money Directly to the People,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2014 (with Eric Lonergan). “A Curious Case of Caveats and Causes: Some Thoughts on the Causal Story of Banking Across Boundaries,” Environment and Planning, Symposium Contribution, Spring 2014. “Austerity as Ideology: A Reply to my Critics,” Comparative European Politics, 11 (6) December 2013: 737-751. 2 “Constructivism and the Study of International Political Economy in China,” Review of International Political Economy, 20 (6) December 2013: 1276-1299 (with Qingxin K. Wang). “The Austerity Delusion: How a Dangerous Idea Won Over the West,” Foreign Affairs, April/May 2013: 41-56. “The BRICs and the Washington Consensus: An Introduction,” Special Issue of the Review of International Political Economy, 20 (2) April 2013: 241-255, ‘Dreaming with the BRICs,’ (with Cornel Ban). “Paradigms and Paradox: The Politics of Economics Ideas in Two Moments of Crisis.” Governance, 26 (4) December 2012. “What Can Okun Teach Polanyi? Efficiency, Regulation and Equality in the OECD” Review of International Political Economy, February 2012, (with Jonathan Hopkin). “Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Institutions” with Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Orion Lewis, and Sven Steinmo, The Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 7 (3) September 2011, pp. 1-17. “The Black Swan of Cairo: How Suppressing Volatility Makes the World Less Predictable and More Dangerous,” Foreign Affairs, 90 (3) April 2011 (with Nassim Nicholas Taleb). “The Ghosts of Corporatism’s Past and Past Corporatisms,” Capitalism and Society: 5 (3) (2011): 1-22. “What if Most Swans are Black? The Unsettling World of Nassim Taleb,” Critical Review, January 2010. “Torn Between Two Lovers: Caught in the Middle of British and American IPE,” New Political Economy, 14 (3) (2009): 329-336. “The Secret Life of Institutions: On the Role of Ideas in Evolving Economic Systems,” Revue de la Régulation: Capitalisme, Institutions, Pouvoirs. n°3/4, Novembre 2008, pp: 1-11. “The Politics of Compounding Bubbles: The Global Housing Bubble in Comparative Perspective,” Comparative European Politics, Fall 2008, pp. 387-406. “Beyond the Usual Suspects: Ideas, Uncertainty, and Building Institutional Orders,” International Studies Quarterly, 51 (4) December 2007, pp. 761-777. 3 “The Social Construction of Wars and Crises as Mechanisms of Change” International Studies Quarterly 51 (4) December 2007, pp. 747-759 (with Wesley W. Widmaier and Leonard Seabrooke). “Great Punctuations: Prediction, Randomness, and the Evolution of Comparative Political Science,” American Political Science Review 100 (4) November 2006, pp. 493- 498. “Domestic Institutions and the Possibility of Social Democracy,” Comparative European Politics, 3 (4) December 2005, pp. 379-407. “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’ (with Jonathan Hopkin). “From Catch all Politics to Cartelization: The Political Economy of the Cartel Party,” Western European Politics 28 (1) January 2005, pp. 34-61 (with Richard S. Katz). “The Great Transformation in Understanding Polanyi: A Response to Hejeebu and McCloskey,” Critical Review 16 (1) August 2004, pp. 117-130. “Structures do not Come with an Instruction Sheet: Interests, Ideas and Progress in Political Science,” Perspectives on Politics 1 (4), December 2003, pp. 695-703. “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). “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. “Same as it Never Was? Typology and Temporality in the Varieties of Capitalism,” Comparative European Politics 1 (2) Summer 2003, pp. 215-225. “From Comparative Capitalism to Economic Constructivism,” New Political Economy 8 (2) July 2003, pp. 263-274. “The Transformation of the Swedish Model: Economic Ideas, Distributional Conflict and Institutional Change,” World Politics 54 (1) October 2001, pp. 1-26. “The Ghost in the Machine? The Specter of Marx in the Matrix,” Politologiske Studere 4 (4) December 2001, pp. 86-91 (with Robin Varghese). 4 “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). “Moving the Political Middle: Redefining the Boundaries of State Action,” Political Quarterly July 1997, pp. 231-240. “Any More Bright Ideas? The Ideational Turn of Comparative Political Economy,” Comparative Politics 29 (1) January 1997, pp. 229-250. Forthcoming Journal Articles: “Policies to Overcome Stagnation: The Crisis, and the Possible Futures, of all things Euro.” Forthcoming in the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, Fall 2016. “Rethinking the Possibilities for Structural Reforms,” OECD Observer (solicited article) Summer 2016. Journal Articles in Progress: “Ideas that Make Money: From Maastricht to the Fiscal Compact and Beyond,” Under Review at Perspectives on Politics in Summer 2016 (with Matthias Matthijs). “A Structural Theory of Ideas?” (with Henry Farrell) Summer 2016 for World Politics in 2017. “Essentially Contested Constructs: CPI’s, Debt Sustainability, and Forward Guidance,” for International Organization in 2017 (with Daniel Mügge). “Schumpeter’s Paradox: Creative Destruction, Destructive Creation, and International Primacy,” intended for International Organization in 2017. Published Book Chapters “Ideas and Historical Institutionalism.” Contribution to the Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (New York: Oxford University Press 2015) With Oddny Helgadottir and William Kring. “When you find yourself going through Hell, look for an Exit,” contribution to a Gulbenkian Foundation project (Portugal, Lisbon), entitled Imagining the Future (ed.) Viriato Soromenho-Marques, September 2015. “Just Who Put You in Charge? We Did: Credit Rating Agencies and the Politics of Ratings,” chapter for Alexander Cooley (ed.), Rankings and Ratings Organizations and Global Governance (Cambridge University Press 2015) (with Rawi Abdelal). 5 “Introduction: The Future of the Euro