Selected Publications

Books

The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Governance. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005). [link]

Cultural Political Economy. Eds. Jacqueline Best and Matthew Paterson. (London: Routledge, 2010). [link]

Articles

"Ambiguity and Uncertainty in International Organizations: A History of Debating IMF Conditionality," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2012 (Forthcoming).

"Bureaucratic Ambiguity" Economy and Society, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2012 (Forthcoming).

"The Limits of Financial Risk Management: Or, What We Didn't Learn from the Asian Crisis," New Political Economy, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2010, pp. 29-49 .[link]

"How to Make a Bubble: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of the Financial Crisis," International Political Sociology, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2009, pp. 461-465. [link]

"Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Indeterminacy." International Political Sociology. Vol. 2, No. 4, 2008, pp. 355-374. [link]

"Why the Economy is Often the Exception to Politics as Usual." Theory, Culture & Society. Vol. 24, No. 4, 2007, pp. 83-105. [link]

"Legitimacy Dilemmas: The IMF's Pursuit of Country Ownership."  Third World Quarterly. Vol. 28, No. 3, 2007, pp. 469-88. [link]

"Micro- or Macro- Moralities?  International Economic Discourses and Policy Possibilities." Review of International Political Economy.  Vol 13, No. 4, October 2006, pp. 609-633. [with Wesley Widmaier] [link]

"Co-opting Cosmopolitanism? The International Monetary Fund’s New Global Ethics." Global Society. Vol 20, No. 3, July 2006, pp. 307-327. [link]

“The Moral Politics of IMF Reforms: Universal Economics, Particular Ethics.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. Vol. 4, No. 3-4, 2005, pp. 357-378. [link]

“Hollowing out Keynesian Norms: How the Search for a Technical Fix Undermined the Bretton Woods Regime.” Review of International Studies. Vol. 30, No. 3, July 2004, pp. 383-404. [link]

“From the Top Down: The New Financial Architecture and the Re-Embedding of Global Finance.” New Political Economy Vol. 8, No. 3, 2003, pp. 363-84. [link]

"Moralizing Finance: The New International Financial Architecture as Normative Discourse.” Review of International Political Economy Vol. 10, No. 3, 2003, pp. 579-603. [link]

Book chapters

"Bringing Power Back in: The IMF's Constructivist Strategy in Critical Perspective." Constructing the International Economy. Eds. Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth and Craig Parsons. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), pp. 194-210. [link]

"Understanding Cultural Political Economy." Cultural Political Economy. Eds. Jacqueline Best and Matthew Paterson (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 1-25. [with Matthew Paterson] [link]

"The Ethics of Global Economic Institutions," The Ethics of Global Governance. Ed. Antonio Francheschet (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner, 2009).[link]

"Discussion: The Politics of Civilizational Talk." Civilizational Identity: The Production and Reproduction of "Civilizations" in International Relations. Eds. Martin Hall and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 181-188. [link]

"Civilizing through Transparency: The International Monetary Fund." The Global Standards of Market Civilization. Eds. Leonard Seabrooke and Brett Bowden (London: Routledge/RIPE series, 2006), pp. 134-145. [link]

“The Politics of Transparency: Ambiguity and the Liberalization of International Finance,” Turbulence and New Directions in Global Political Economy, James Busumtwi-Sam and Laurent Dobuzinskis, eds. Palgrave (Basingstoke 2003), pp. 126-144. [link]

Op Eds

"Why the IMF's next leader shouldn't come from the West," Ottawa Citizen. May 28, 2011. [link]

"Market's invisible hand is supposed to be just," The Globe and Mail: Report on Business. March 30, 2009. [link]

"Reaching the limits of risk management," The Globe and Mail: Report on Business. October 13, 2008. [link]

"We're in this mess too." Ottawa Citizen. October 3, 2008. [link]

“The limits of transparency.” International Herald Tribune.  March 17, 2005. [link]