The discipline of comparative political economy (CPE) relies heavily on aggregate, country-level economic indicators. However, the practices of multinational corporations have increasingly undermined this approach to measurement. The problem of indicator drift is well-documented by a growing...

This article responds to Baines and Hager’s recent critique of the capital-aspower model of the stock market. Proposed by Bichler and Nitzan, this model seeks to explain how financial crises are tied to the concept of "systemic fear". Bichler and Nitzan tested their initial model on US data,...

This paper contributes to Comparative Political Economy (CPE), developing an analytical concept of corporate welfare. Corporate welfare - the transfer of public funds and benefits to corporate actors with weak or no conditionality - is a prominent form of state-business relations that CPE...