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Dr Chris Clarke is Reader in Political Economy. Previously he was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in PAIS, an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, and an Economic and Social Research Council Visiting Fellow at Brown University, after formerly having studied at the University of Birmingham.

Chris has published on a range of topics associated with International Political Economy and Finance. His first book is entitled and was published in the Routledge RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. Chris is currently writing a monograph on platform lending based on his Leverhulme funded research.

Research Interests

• Political Economy of Money and Finance

• Ethics and Economic Governance (economic citizenship, market subjectivity)

• Political Economy of Platform Lending (P2P, marketplace/online lending)

• History of Economic Ideas (especially critical reinterpretations of Adam Smith)

Publications

• 'The Social Foundations of Fintech', in Clarke, C. and Clift, B. (eds) (Agenda), 2025.
• , Edited by Clarke, C. and Clift, B. (Agenda), 2025.
• '', Competition & Change, 2025, co-authored with Huw Macartney.
• '', in Hannah, E. and Ravenhill, J. (eds) Global Political Economy (Oxford University Press), 2024, co-authored with Adrienne Roberts.

• '', Journal of Institutional Economics, 17 (6), pp. 973-987, 2021.

• '', Review of International Political Economy, 26 (5), pp. 863-885, 2019. 
• ‘The Ethics of Alternative Finance: Governing, Resisting, and Rethinking the Limits of Finance’ in Brent J. Steele and Eric A. Heinze (eds) , pp. 431-444, 2018.
• , Theory, Culture, and Society 35 (3), pp. 3-11, 2018, co-authored with Lauren Tooker.
• , Theory, Culture, and Society, 35 (3), pp. 57-76, 2018, co-authored with Lauren Tooker.
• , British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18 (4) pp. 930-945, 2016, co-authored with Chris Rogers.
• (), 2016.
• '', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18 (1), pp. 49-71, 2016, co-authored with Adrienne Roberts.
• '', Consumption, Markets and Culture, 18 (3), pp. 257-276, 2015.
• 'Popular Documentaries and the Global Financial Crisis' in Rens van Munster and Casper Sylvest (eds) Documenting World Politics: A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film (New York: ), 2015, co-authored with James Brassett.
• ‘’, Journal of Cultural Economy, 5 (3), pp. 261-278, 2012.
• ‘’, International Political Sociology, 6 (1), pp. 4-20, 2012, co-authored with James Brassett.
• ‘’, Politics, 29 (1), pp. 28-36, 2009.

Contact Details

Email: c.d.clarke@warwick.ac.uk

Office: D1.15

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