Mark Blyth

Mark Blyth is a distinguished political economist whose research interests lie in the field of international political economy. More specifically, his research encompasses several fields and aims to be as interdisciplinary as possible, drawing from political science, economics, sociology, complexity theory, and evolutionary theory. His work falls into several related areas: the politics of ideas, how institutions change, political parties, and the politics of finance. His work on finance focuses upon the politics of regulatory change, the role of macro-prudential regulation, the distributional costs of financial crises, and the power of financial ideas in politics. He is also an authority on central banks.