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Mark Blyth

Scottish-American political scientist (born 1967) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Blyth
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Mark McGann Blyth (born 29 September 1967)[5] is a Scottish-American political economist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, Blyth additionally directs the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.[6]

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Early life

Blyth grew up in Dundee, Scotland and was raised by his grandmother after his mother died shortly after childbirth.[7] He had a lisp and a stammer as a kid: later played bass in rock bands and noted in an interview that "I was a musician from age 14 to 28. I've released five or six albums, but all with independent labels that never went anywhere. If they had, I wouldn't be here. I'd be lying on a beach with Heidi Klum."[8]

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Education and career

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Blyth received a BA in Political Science from the University of Strathclyde in 1990. In 1991, Blyth received a Walker Bequest award from the University of Strathclyde and a Scottish International Educational Trust Award for Study in the United States. He eventually became a US citizen.[9]He went on to complete post-graduate studies in the field, being awarded an MA in 1993, MPhil in 1995, and PhD in 1999 at Columbia University.[10] He later joined the Faculty of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University as Assistant Professor in 1997, then Associate Professor from 2005 to 2009.[11]

In 2009, Blyth became a Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at Brown University. In 2014, he was appointed as the Eastman Professor of Political Economy - part of a joint appointment between Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies and Department of Political Science - and, as of 2020, has served as both Director and William R. Rhodes ‘57 Professor at the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance.[12]

Blyth is known for his scholarship on economic ideas[13] having contributed to an "ideational turn" in International Political Economy by offering sociologically informed approaches to markets and politics.[14]

Blyth is a vociferous critic of austerity, particularly in his 2013 book, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea - described by Salon's Elias Esquith as "necessary reading," a primer in economics, and polemical history of the austerity. Esquith praised Blyth's work for its "insight into austerity's lineage, its theories, its champions and its failures...[where Blyth] explains the damaging consequences of austerity in Europe and the U.S." In the book, Blyth criticises the argument advanced by austerity advocates as "a canard" and "complete horseshit".[15]

In 2016, Blyth compared "Trumpism" to similar anti-establishment movements across the developed world.[16][17] In August 2020, he expressed support for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom,[18] and currently sits on the Scottish Government's Advisory Council for the transformation of Scotland's economy, chaired by Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy, Kate Forbes.[19]

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Personal life

Blyth is married.[20]

Works

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Books

  • Blyth, Mark (2002). Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81176-7. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  • Blyth, Mark, ed. (2009). Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (IPE): IPE as a Global Conversation. Routledge. ISBN 9781135984007. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  • Abdelal, Rawi; Blyth, Mark; Parsons, Craig, eds. (2010). Constructing the International Economy. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801475887. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  • Blyth, Mark (2013). Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Hardcover ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-982830-2.
  • Boyd, William Lowe; Kerchner, Charles T.; Blyth, Mark, eds. (2008). The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities are Reshaping Public Education. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press. ISBN 9781891792939. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  • Matthijs, Matthias; Blyth, Mark, eds. (2015). The Future of the Euro. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190233235. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  • Abdelel, Rawi; Blyth, Mark (2015). "Just who put you in charge? We did: CRAs and the politics of ratings". In Cooley, Alexander; Snyder, Jack (eds.). Ranking the World; Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance (Hardcover ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 39–59. ISBN 978-1-107-09813-8. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  • Lonergan, Eric; Blyth, Mark (2020). Angrynomics (Hardcover ed.). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9781788212786. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  • Blyth, Mark; Pontusson, Jonas; Baccaro, Lucio, eds. (2022). Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197607855.+
  • Blyth, Mark; Fraccaroli, Nicolò (2025). Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers (1st ed.). W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-324-10614-2. Retrieved 16 October 2025.


Selected articles

A more complete list can be found on Mark Blyth's curriculum vitae.[21]

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