Publications

Institutionalism, the corporation, and the climate crisis

Summarizes some of the major lines of thought in classical and legal institutionalism and briefly outlines three areas in which they can inform thinking about political economies of the Anthropocene.

Coping with crisis: The Peruvian state-owned fishing enterprise Pesca Perú, 1973–1998

This article examines why and how states use the legal and organisational construction of the state-owned enterprise (SOE) to deal with environmental and social crises.

Managing economies, managing nature: Industry and regulation of fisheries in the post-war Soviet Union and Norway

This article examines the structure of the post-war fishing political economies in two countries separated by the Cold War divide: the Soviet Union and Norway.

Corporate strategy in the Anthropocene: German electricity utilities and the nuclear sudden stop

This article takes a business history approach to consider what one case of a “sudden stop” looked like on the ground in the case of the sudden German nuclear phase-out decision in 2011.

The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-century Fisheries Science

This article looks at how fisheries biologists of the early twentieth century conceptualized and measured overfishing and attempted to make it a scientific object.

Narrative and computational text analysis in business and economic history

Through a survey of the most frequently used tools of computational text analysis and an overview of their uses to date across the social sciences and humanities, this article shows how such methods can provide economic and business historians tools to respond to and engage with the ‘narrative turn’ in economics while also building on and offering a macro-level corrective to the focus on narrative in history.

Ownership in the electricity market: Property, the firm, and the climate crisis

This paper discusses the historically constituted nature of the categories of property, capital, and the firm and how these literatures provide helpful frameworks for analyzing the recent history and possible futures of electricity sectors.

Fisheries' collapse and the making of a global event, 1950s--1970s

Analyses three fisheries crises in the post-war world – the Far East Asian Kamchatka salmon in the late 1950s, the north Atlantic Atlanto-Scandian herring of the late 1960s, and the Peruvian anchoveta of the early 1970s.

Forecasting Fisheries. Prediction and the planned economy in the Interwar Soviet Union

This essay looks at how the practices of Soviet fisheries science, focusing on the Caspian Sea region, changed in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Science, states, and salmon: Communicating through disagreement over a Cold War fault line

This essay takes the Soviet–Japanese Fisheries Convention of the Northwest Pacific Ocean of 1956 as a case study to consider the nature and characteristics of scientific disputes in highly politically-charged contexts outside frameworks of nation-states or international bodies.