Pierre-Christian Fink is a visiting fellow at the Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School. He is a historical sociologist who studies rulemaking and rule evasion in the postwar US money market.

April 11, 2024

Analysis

The Electric Vehicle Developmental State

BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy

The rise of the Chinese EV industry has been enabled not only by generous government subsidies but also by profound changes in strategy and organization, and in particular by a distinctive revival of vertical integration—at both individual firm and national…

January 13, 2024

Reviews

Moralizing Money

On Jakob Feinig’s “Moral Economies of Money”

Since 2021, inflation has featured as among the most salient issues in American public discourse, with voters actively awaiting pronouncements from the Federal Reserve. Inflation mattered in the 2022 midterm elections, and it looms large over the 2024 presidential election.…