My 2020 Review of International Political Economy article on the international political economy of global inequality was included in Dan Drezner’s annual “Albie” awards for the year’s best writing in political economy.
Erin Lockwood, “The international political economy of global inequality,” Review of International Political Economy, June. What should scholars of the global political economy study? For decades, the answer to this question was pretty straightforward: variations in the rules of the global game and the patterns of economic exchange. Over the past 50 years, global economic inequality has widened and persisted. Lockwood’s paper reminds us that this phenomenon is important — and inherently political in its causes and effects — and therefore should be an important research program.