Richard W. Carney

Assistant Professor

Education:

             • BA (1995), Biology (Genetics) and Political Science (highest honors), Rutgers College, Rutgers

               University.

             • MA (1999) and PhD (2003), Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

             • I have lived in Canada, US, France, Italy, and Singapore.

 

Academic Appointments:

• Assistant Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. Current.

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Josef Korbel Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. 2004-05.      

• Jean Monnet/Vincent Wright Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European 

  University Institute. 2003-04.

            

Research Interests:

                 • International and Comparative Political Economy

             • Financial Development and Corporate Governance

             • Regional Financial Integration

             • Business-Government Relations

             • Innovation

 

Monograph:

• Contested Capitalism: The Political Origins of Financial Institutions, forthcoming with Routledge’s series Advances in International Political Economy, 2009.

               

Abstract: This book examines the political origins of financial institutions across 15 developed democracies, with focused case studies on the US, France, Japan, Austria, and Germany. It is argued that political battles between landed interests, labor, and owners of capital have fundamentally shaped modern financial arrangements in these countries. The origins of contemporary financial arrangements are located in the political bargains struck among these actors immediately after WWII, or in the early twentieth century. This book offers an innovative approach to explaining nations’ distinctive capitalist arrangements and by focusing on the financial arena, which many view as particularly susceptible to the pressures of global capital flows, the research highlights the importance, and continuing relevance, of these early political bargains.

 

Edited Volume:

• Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis, Routledge, December 2008.

               

Abstract: This volume is based on a conference hosted by RSIS which brought together individuals from academia, government, international organizations, and the private sector, many of whom were directly involved with managing the crisis as it unfolded.

 

Journal Publications:

• Institutional (Dis)Incentives to Innovate: An Explanation for Singapore’s Innovation Gap. Journal of East Asian Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2009. Co-authored with Loh Yi Zheng.

• Chinese Capitalism in the OECD Mirror. New Political Economy, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2009.

• Varieties of Capitalism in France: Interests, Institutions, and Finance. French Politics, Volume 4, Issue 

   1, 2006. Selected as one of the journal’s top ten articles.

• Corporate Governance and the Financial System: the Role of Politics. Journal of Corporate Ownership  

   and Control, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2004.

• National Security and National Finance: Locating the Origins of Modern Financial Capitalism. EUI

   Working Paper Series, RSCAS No. 2004/21.

 

Book Chapters:

• Introduction. In Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis, edited by Richard Carney, Routledge, December, 2008.

• Globalisation, Politics, and European Financial Integration. In Globalisation and World Economic   

   Policies, edited by Clem Tisdell, Serials Publications, Delhi, May, 2005.

 

Papers Under Review:

• Disproportionate Influence and Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional-Historical Legacy of Farmers. Best Paper Prize Finalist at the Academy of International Business Conference 2008.

• Partisanship and Institutional (Re)Creation: Locating and Explaining the Origins of Modern Finance        

  Capitalism.

 

Conference Presentations:

             • Midwest Finance Association Meeting, Best Paper Prize Nominee. 2002.

             • International Studies Association. 2002.

             • University of California Economic History Association. 2002.

             • American Political Science Association. 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009.

             • Dutch Central Bank, GARNET Research Network, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2006.

             • Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting. 2007, 2009.

             • Singapore Economic Review Conference. 2007.

             • Academy of Management Annual Meeting. 2007.

             • Academy of International Business, Paper selected for Best Paper Proceedings, 2008.

 

Courses:

             • Quantitative Methods

             • Game Theory            

             • Varieties of Capitalism         

             • International Political Economy

 

Honors, Grants, and Fellowships:

EUI:

• Jean Monnet/Vincent Wright Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, 2003-04.

 

UC, San Diego:

• Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, for academic year 2001-02.

• Joseph Naiman Graduate Fellowship in Japanese Studies, 2002.

• All-UC Group in Economic History Research Fellowship, 2001, 2002.     

• Clifford Clogg Fellowship, ICPSR Summer Program on social science quantitative research

   methodology, 2001.

• University of California, San Diego Departmental Fellowship, 1997.

• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 1997.

 

Rutgers:

• Senior Honors Thesis: Québec Nationalism, with Highest Honors.

• Henry Rutgers Scholar, 1994-5. For academic excellence.

• Rutgers College General Honors Program Scholar, 1991-5.

• Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar, 1991-95. Partial scholarship for university.

• Completed 172 out of 120 required course credits in 4 years.

• President, Rutgers College Class of 1995, 1991-95. Re-elected each year by peers.

• Henry Rutgers Fellow, 1994-5. For distinguished service to Rutgers College.

• Jeanne Sauvé International Youth Leadership Conference Delegate, 1993. 1 of 6 

  delegates from the United States to a conference including 300 people from 180 nations.