Martijn Konings completed his PhD at York University in Toronto and has published widely on American and global finance. His current research interests relate to the changing ways in which households are connected to financial institutions, shifts in pension funds' investment strategies since the onset of the subprime crisis, and the need for political economy to enrich its understanding of core economic categories by drawing on perspectives in social psychology and psychoanalysis.

• global finance
• neoliberal restructuring
• political economy of the US
• economic sociology
• social theory
• social psychology and psychoanalysis

Edited books

The Great Credit Crash, London/New York: Verso, to be published in 2010.

American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance (with Leo Panitch), New York: Palgrave, 2nd ed, 2009.

The Globalization Decade: A Critical Reader (with Leo Panitch, Colin Leys and Alan Zuege), London: Merlin Press, 2004.

Refereed journal articles

‘Neoliberalism and the American state’, Critical Sociology, forthcoming.

Geographies of Financialization in Disarray: The Dutch Case in Comparative Perspective’ (with Ewald Engelen and Rodrigo Fernandez), Economic Geography, forthcoming.

‘Myths of Neoliberal Deregulation’ (with Leo Panitch), New Left Review, 57 (May-June), 2009, pp. 67-83.

‘Rethinking Neoliberalism and the Subprime Crisis: Beyond the Re-regulation Agenda’, Competition and Change, 13 (2), 2009, pp. 109-128.

‘The Construction of US Financial Power’, Review of International Studies, 35 (1), 2009, pp. 69-94.

‘The Rise of Activist Investors and Patterns of Political Response’ (with Ewald Engelen and Rodrigo Fernandez), Socio-Economic Review, 6 (4), 2008, pp. 611-36.

‘European Finance in the American Mirror: Financial Change and the Reconfiguration of Competitiveness’, Contemporary Politics, 14 (3), 2008, pp. 253-75.

‘US Financial Power in Crisis’ (with Leo Panitch), Historical Materialism, 16 (4), 2008, pp. 3-34.

German translation: ‘Finanzmacht USA. Die Instabilität der Märkte: technisches Problem des Finanzmanagements oder tiefgreifende soziale Krise?’, supplement to Sozialismus, 35 (7-8), 2008, pp. 1-36.

Revised version to be published as ‘Global Finance in Crisis’, Papers of Europe, 1 (1), 2009.

‘The Institutional Foundations of US Structural Power in International Finance: From the Re-emergence of Global Finance to the Monetarist Turn’, Review of International Political Economy, 15 (1), 2008, pp. 35-61.

‘Simon Clarke’s Theory of Crisis: A Critique’, Studies in Marxism, Vol. 11, 2007, pp. 5-20.

‘Political Institutions and Economic Imperatives: Bringing Agency Back In’, Research in Political Economy, Vol. 22, New York: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2005, pp. 85-130.

‘On the Political Economy of Socialism’, Research in Political Economy, Vol. 19, New York: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2001, pp. 107-53.

Book chapters

‘Financial Capitalism Resurgent: Comparative Institutionalism and the Challenges of Financialization’ (with Ewald Engelen), in Glenn Morgan, John Campbell, Colin Crouch, Peer Hull Kristensen, Ove Kai Pedersen and Richard Whitley (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010.

‘The Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis’ (with Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin and Scott Aquanno), in Leo Panitch and Martijn Konings (eds.), American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance, 2nd ed., New York: Palgrave, 2009, pp. 253-292.

‘The Politics of Imperial Finance’ (with Leo Panitch), in Leo Panitch and Martijn Konings (eds.), American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance, New York: Palgrave, 2008, pp. 223-250.

‘American Finance and Empire in Historical Perspective’, in Leo Panitch and Martijn Konings (eds.), American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance, New York: Palgrave, 2008, pp. 48-68.

‘Demystifying Finance and Empire’ (with Leo Panitch), in Leo Panitch and Martijn Konings (eds.), American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance, New York: Palgrave, 2008, pp. 1-13.

‘Monetarism in the US: The Development of New Forms of Institutional Control over Banks and Financial Markets’, in Libby Assassi, Duncan Wigan and Anastasia Nesvetailova (eds.), After Deregulation: Global Finance in the New Century, New York: Palgrave, 2007, pp. 151-165.

‘The United States in the Postwar Global Political Economy: Another Look at the Brenner Debate’, in David Coates (ed.), Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches, New York: Palgrave, 2005, pp. 189-210. (With a reply from Robert Brenner in the same volume.)

‘The Globalization Decade: An Introduction’ (with Alan Zuege, Colin Leys and Leo Panitch), in Leo Panitch, Colin Leys, Alan Zuege and Martijn Konings (eds.), The Globalization Decade: A Critical Reader, London: Merlin Press, 2004, pp. 1-8.

Working paper

‘High Finance, Everyday Finance and State Capacity: A Historical Sociology of American Financial Power’, IPEG Papers in Global Political Economy, no. 26, British International Studies Association, 2007, 34 pp.

Op-ed articles

‘Het staatskapitalisme keert terug in Europa’ (with Ewald Engelen), De Volkskrant, 30 September 2008, p. 10.

‘Europa moet niet te snel oordelen over crisis in VS’, Het Financieele Dagblad, 18 March 2008, p. 9.

‘Nederland moet meer oog krijgen voor dynamiek “schuldencultuur”’, Het Financieele Dagblad, 18 July 2007, p. 9.