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Why do prices surge during crises, and what can governments do about it?

My research tackles some of the most urgent economic questions of our time, from inflation and energy shocks to corporate pricing power, industrial and trade policy. Combining historical insight with contemporary analysis, my work offers new perspectives on how economies can be governed in the public interest.

Inflation, Profits and Affordability

German edition: Available October 13, 2026 - UK & US: Available October 20, 2026

Book

Anti-fascist Economics

London, New York: Penguin Random House

Journal Article

Sellers' Inflation, Profits and Conflict: Why Can Large Firms Hike Prices in an Emergency?

Food Price Stabilization In An Age Of Overlapping Emergencies: The Case For Multilevel Buffer Stocks

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Best of Times, Worst of Times: Record Fossil-fuel Profits, Inflation and Inequality

Journal Article

Implicit Coordination in Sellers' Inflation: How Cost Shocks Facilitate Price Hikes

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Carbon Prices and Inflation in a World of Shocks: Systemically Significant Prices and Industrial Policy Targeting in Germany

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Inflation in Times of Overlapping Emergencies: Systemically Significant Prices from an Input–Output Perspective

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On The Necessity of Money in an Exchange-constituted Economy: The Cases of Smith and Marx

Price Shocks Are Redistribution Shocks: Systemically Significant Prices For Inequality In The United States

Closing The EU's Inflation Governance Gap: The Limits Of Monetary Policy And The Case For A New Policy Framework For Shockflation

Political Economy of China

How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate

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State Capitalism, Imperialism and China: Bringing History Back In

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Neoliberal Economic Thinking and the Quest for Rational Socialism in China: Ludwig von Mises and the Market Reform Debate

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American Radical Economists in Mao's China: From Hopes to Disillusionment

The Ordoliberal Roots of Shock Therapy: The German Economic 'Miracle' in China's 1980s Reform Debate

China's Ancient Principles Of Price Regulation Through Market Participation: The Guanzi From A Comparative Perspective

China And Neoliberalism: Moving Beyond The China Is/Is Not Neoliberal Dichotomy

The State-constituted Market Economy: A Conceptual Framework For China's State–market Relations

Response To The Book Forum On How China Escaped Shock Therapy

Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, And The Making Of Global China, Julian Gewirtz

International Trade

Journal Article

The US–China Trade Imbalance and the Theory of Free Trade: Debunking the Currency Manipulation Argument

Persistence In World Export Patterns And Productive Capabilities Across Two Globalizations

The Nature Of Money And The Theory Of International Trade: Thornton and Ricardo

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Origins of China's Contested Relation with Neoliberalism: Economics, the World Bank, and Milton Friedman at the Dawn of Reform

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Das Westdeutsche und das Chinesische »Wirtschaftswunder«: Der Wettstreit um die Interpretation von Ludwig Erhards Wirtschaftspolitik in Chinas Preisreformdebatte der 1980erJahre