Professor Jeffrey M. Chwieroth

I am Head of the Department of International Relations and Professor of International Relations, as well as Co-Investigator of the Systemic Risk Centre, Associate of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Faculty Affiliate at the Phelan United States Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. My primary research and teaching interests lie in international and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on money and finance.

My publications include The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization (Princeton University Press, 2010). The Wealth Effect received the 2021 International Studies Association International Political Economy Section Best Book Award, the 2020 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, and was featured in the Financial Times’ Summer Books of 2019: Economics. Capital Ideas was a finalist for the 2010 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize.

My research has also been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, and World Politics.

I have received grants and fellowships from the Australian Research Council, the AXA Research Fund, the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Economic and Social Research Council, among others. I have held visiting positions at INSEAD, Institut für Höhere Studien, and the International Monetary Fund.