​Matthew Eagleton-Pierce
Reader in International Political Economy
SOAS University of London
I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in International Political Economy at SOAS University of London. I previously taught at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, and the University of Exeter. I have held a Visiting Fellow position at the MaxPo Center at Sciences Po Paris.
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All my research has been preoccupied with understanding the forms of power in capitalism, with a particular interest around the nexus between material and symbolic power. My core empirical work is focused on the political economy of the City of London as a major commercial centre. Prior research focused on two other areas of capitalism: (1) trade (WTO; NGOs and trade policy); and (2) ideology (neoliberalism, the politics of managerialism). My disciplinary location is within international political economy and international political sociology.
I am the author of Symbolic Power in the World Trade Organization (Oxford, 2013) and Neoliberalism: The Key Concepts (Routledge, 2016). I have published in Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, International Political Sociology, Competition & Change, EPA: Economy and Space, and Millennium: Journal of International Studies, among others. I received a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (ESRC Funded).
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Book chapter: 'Remaking the Financial Infrastructure of the City of London', in Westermeier, C., Campbell-Verduyn, M., and Brandl, B. (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Financial Infrastructures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).
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Article: 'Uncovering the City of London Corporation: Territory and Temporalities in the New State Capitalism', EPA: Economy and Space, 55 (2023), 1, 184-200.
Contact details
Department of Politics and International Studies
SOAS University of London
Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
Email: m.eagleton-pierce@soas.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7898 4701
