The Capitalism Studies Network welcomes affiliation from ANU academics and students in all disciplines, engaged in the study of the political, historical, social, legal and environmental dimensions of capitalism. The Network also partners with other academics, projects, networks and organisations pertaining to capitalism studies and political economy.
If you are interested in joining or affiliating with the Network, please get in touch.
Co-founders
Aditya Balasubramanian
School of History
aditya.balasubramanian @anu.edu.au
Research interests: history of modern South and Southeast Asia; energy and environmental history; material histories of consumption and culture; history of ideas.
Will Bateman
College of Law
will.bateman@anu.edu.au
Research interests: law and political economy; financial systems; central banking; sovereign debt; fiscal policy; sustainable investment.
Melinda Cooper
School of Sociology
melinda.cooper@anu.edu.au
Research interests: neoliberalism and new conservatisms; the far right; economic sociology; social and political theory; feminist theory.
Members
Tom Cliff
School of Culture, History and Language
tom.cliff@anu.edu.au
Research interests: family norms, forms and effects; cross-cultural and cross-historical political valence of families; small business enterprise; institutional innovation or synthesis; influence of ideas and ideology on practice, and vice versa; money; aspiration; mental health.
Amelia Dale
School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
amelia.dale@anu.edu.au
Research interests: eighteenth-century literature and culture; Romanticism; histories of consumption and culture; histories of real estate.
Gio Dalla Libera Marchiori
School of Regulation and Global Governance
giorgia.dallaliberamarchiori @anu.edu.au
Research interests: planetary health equity; philanthropy; knowledge generation; agenda-setting; power.
Chris Gregory
School of Archaeology and Anthropology (Emeritus)
chris.gregory@anu.edu.au
Research interests: anthropological economics; India; Papua New Guinea; Fiji; history of ideas.
Amy King
Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
amy.king@anu.edu.au
Research interests: China and international economic order; China–Japan relations; the nexus between economics and security; infrastructure, industrial development and development finance; ideas in International Relations; history, memory and international security.
Elise Klein
Crawford School of Public Policy
elise.klein@anu.edu.au
Research interests: expropriation; work; decoloniality; care; development; reparations.
George Lawson
Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
george.lawson@anu.edu.au
Research interests: revolutions; global historical sociology; contentious politics.
Asaf Lone
School of Regulation and Global Governance
asaf.lone@anu.edu.au
Research interests: urban housing discrimination; segregation and ghettoisation in Indian cities; transnational diaspora politics; transitional justice and peace-building in South Asia.
Francis Markham
POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research, College of Arts and Social Sciences
francis.markham@anu.edu.au
Research interests: settler colonialism; wealth and assets; land rights; reparations; inequalities; racial capitalism.
Wesley Widmaier
Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
wesley.widmaier@anu.edu.au
Research interests: crises; Keynesianism; international relations theory; quantum theory.
Matt Withers
School of Sociology
matt.withers@anu.edu.au
Research interests: global political economy; uneven development; temporary labour migration; remittances; social reproduction; labour process theory.
Affiliated Scholars
Melissa Barber
School of Medicine and Law School, Yale University
melissa.barber@yale.edu
Research Interests: pharmaceuticals; intellectual property; global health history and governance; biomedical innovation; political, social, and commercial determinants of health
Debjani Bhattacharyya
Department of History, University of Zürich
debjani.bhattacharyya@hist.uzh.ch
Research Interests: British Empire, South Asia, Political Economy, Finance, Climate History.
Benjamin Braun
European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
b.braun@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: financial systems; asset management; central banking; green transition; state capacity.
Angus Burgin
Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
burgin@jhu.edu
Research interests: 20th- and 21st-century United States; intellectual history; history of technology; history of capitalism.
Christine Desan
Harvard Law School
desan@law.harvard.edu
Research interests: history and structure of capitalism; money and finance; inequality; political economy.
Sebastian Diessner
Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University
s.diessner@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Research interests: political economy; central banking; accountability; legitimacy; the knowledge economy.
Leah Downey
St John's College, Cambridge University
lrd40@cam.ac.uk
Research interests: democracy; central banks; administrative state; macroeconomic policy; democratic power.
Fergus Green
Department of Political Science, University College London
fergus.green@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests: climate change; fossil fuels; corporate accountability; political theory; law & political economy.
Eric Helleiner
Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo
ehellein@uwaterloo.ca
Research interests: political economy; finance; money; history of thought; environment.
Elizabeth Humphrys
School of Communications, University of Technology Sydney
elizabeth.humphrys @uts.edu.au
Research interests: labour and unions; work health and safety and climate change; neoliberalism; social movements; hegemony and social democracy.
Andrew Liu
Department of History, Villanova University
andybliu@gmail.com
Research interests: China; Asia-Pacific; neoliberalism and crisis; global comparison; political-economic thought; Marx.
Eric Monnet
École des hautes études en sciences sociales; Paris School of Economics
eric.monnet@psemail.eu
Research interests: economic history; central banking; finance; banking crises; international monetary system.
Manuela Moschella
Department of Political and Social Sciences
manuela.moschella@unibo.it
Research interests: IPE; central banking; European economic governance; financial globalisation; economic policymaking.
Michael O'Sullivan
Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
mbosull@ad.unc.edu
Research interests: South Asia and Middle East; archives of economic life; financial history outside the Global North; early modern and modern capitalism
Sushmita Pati
National Law School of India University
sushmita@nls.ac.in
Research interests: political economy, urban studies, political theory
Shitong Qiao
School of Law, Duke University
qiao@law.duke.edu
Research interests: social norms; property rights; law and society; law and development in China.
Lucia Quaglia
Department of Political Science, University of Bologna
lucia.quaglia@unibo.it
Research interests: finance; financial regulation; central banking; Economic and Monetary Union; European Union.
Srinath Raghavan
Departments of History and International Relations, Ashoka University
srinath.raghavan@ashoka.edu.in
Research interests: modern South Asia, international and global history, historical political economy, history of capitalism
Pedro Ramos Pinto
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
pr211@cam.ac.uk
Research interests: history of inequality and of its measurement; histories of welfare and work in the twentieth-century in Europe and the Atlantic World.
Matthew Shutzer
Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests:Environmental History; Science and Technology Studies; Fossil Fuels and Climate Change; Law and Political Economy; the History of Development
Quinn Slobodian
Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
qs@bu.edu
Research interests: history of political economy; history of the human sciences; Neoliberalism studies.
Ben Spies-Butcher
Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
ben.spies-butcher@mq.edu.au
Research interests: social policy; welfare state theory; public finance; financialisation; political attitudes.
Francesca Trivellato
School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
ft@ias.edu
Research interests: history of preindustrial Europe; credit, work, commercial law; Jewish-Christian relations; historiography.
Ntina Tzouvala
Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales
ntina.tzouvala@anu.edu.au
Research interests: history and theory of international law; Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL); law and political economy; critical legal theory; feminist and queer legal theory; law, race and capitalism
Amy Verdun
Department of Political Science, University of Victoria
averdun@uvic.ca
Research interests: European integration; governance; central banks; monetary integration; fiscal policy.
Thomas David
Institute of Political Studies and Center of International History and Political Studies of Globalization, University of Lausanne
thomas.david@unil.ch
Research Interests: capitalism; elites; business; global history; colonialism
Affiliated Organisations
Center for Economy and Society
SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University
The Center for Economy and Society is a multidisciplinary research and teaching initiative dedicated to reinvigorating debates about politics, economics, and culture and identifying new possibilities for change. CES aims to provide a pluralistic space in which scholars and practitioners with different approaches to the political economy of liberal democracy can productively work out their disagreements, discover common ground, and build new frameworks for governance.
UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies
Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London
The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together UCL faculty and students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies’ capacity to change, and are contested and remade across time and space.