Section: Staff Profiles

Iain Hardie

Name
Dr Iain Hardie
Title
Lecturer
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.23 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 4249
E-Mail
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/hardie_iain
Iain Hardie

Office Hours:

Thursday 09:00-11:00

Qualifications

  • M.A. (Cantab.)
  • MSc (Edinburgh)
  • MSc by Research (Edinburgh)
  • PhD (Edinburgh)

Recent Posts

Iain completed his first degree in 1985 in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before beginning an investment banking career in London and Hong Kong, specialising in emerging bond markets. He came to Edinburgh in 2001 to complete a part-time MSc in International and European Politics, before completing a PhD in 2003-07. His PhD examines the links between the financialization of government bond markets and emerging market government policy autonomy, focusing on case studies Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey. He also works with Donald Mackenzie on the sociology of financial markets.

Research Interests

Iain’s research interests include issues surrounding financial globalization, especially financialization and varieties of financial capitalism, focusing on the implications for both developed and developing countries. He is a member of the International Politics Research Group.

Recent Publications

'Die Krise but not La Crise? The Financial Crisis and the Transformation of German and French Banking Systems' in Journal of Common Market Studies 2009 (coauthored with David Howarth); 'The EU and Climate Change Policy: Law, Politics and Prominence at Different Levels' in Journal of Contemporary European Research 2008 (coauthored with Chad Damro and Donald Mackenzie); ‘Constructing the Market Frame: Distributed Cognition and Distributed Framing in Financial Markets’ in New Political Economy 2007 (coauthored with Donald MacKenzie); ‘Assembling an economic actor: the agencement of a Hedge Fund’ in The Sociological Review 2007 (coauthored with Donald MacKenzie);‘A Price is a Social Thing: Towards a Material Sociology of Arbitrage’ in Organization Studies 2006 (coauthored with Daniel Beunza and Donald MacKenzie); ‘The power of the markets? The international bond markets and the 2002 elections in Brazil’ in Review of International Political Economy 2006; ‘The sociology of arbitrage: a comment on MacKenzie’ in Economy and Society 2004.

Current Teaching

Iain teaches Honours and MSc courses in International Political Economy.

PhD Supervision

Iain welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in research into issues surrounding the politics of markets, particularly financial markets, and on the impact of financialization.

 

This page was published on 6 November 2009


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