Dr Inga Rademacher
About
Overview
Biography
Inga has joined the Department of International Politics in January 2023. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Max Planck Institute of the Study of Societies and has held previous positions at King's College, London and at Goldsmiths, University of London. Inga is one of the co-directors of CITYPERC and an associate editor of Global Political Economy.
Research
Inga is interested in major transformations in contemporary economic governance. Her research focuses on periods of institutional change in which existing governance systems break down and new ones emerge. She explores such dynamics by focusing on a range of actors: state institutions, business groups, financial actors and political coalitions.
Central banks
Her early work focused on the role of central banks in the emergence of neoliberal economic policy. It showed that monetary officials contributed to both the formation of fiscal austerity and the abolition of capital controls in the 1970s and 1980s. Later work examined how central bankers sought to preserve the technocratic macroeconomic policy framework when it came under pressure during the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.
Finance and the far right
In her current book project, Inga explores a newly forming economic order: the financial-governance regimes advocated by far-right parties. Focusing on nine advanced market economies, this project maps the financial policies pursued by these parties and analyzes the coalitions they are building with business groups—including asset management firms, Big Tech, and venture capital funds. See a early introduction of this topic in this blogpost on Finance and the Far Right.
Inga has published in key journals in political economy including Socio-Economic Review, Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy and Policy Studies.
Her work on central banks has been discussed in blogs including Phenomenal World and Adam Tooze’s Chartbooks.
Forbes magazine had a feature article on her work on state-actor strategies and tax cuts.
Grants
Inga is a member of a research project which explores the "Political Economy of Growth Models in an Age of Stagnation". The project is led by Prof. Engelbert Stockhammer (King's College, London) and is funded by a Leverhulme Research Grant. Inga leads one work stream of this project which is interested in how fiscal-monetary relations within and outside the EMU have shaped differential economic outcomes since the Global Financial Crisis.
Recent publications
2026. With José Tomás Labarca The only game in town: central bank politicisation management and macroeconomic policy discourse at the zero-lower-bound link text
2024. Central banks, monetary stability, and the varieties of capital control liberalization. Socio-Economic Review online first link text
2023. One state, one interest? How a historic shock to the balance of power of the Bundesbank and the German government laid the path for fiscal austerity. Review of International Political Economy: link text
2021. With Timur Ergen. The Silicon Valley imaginary: US corporate tax reform in the 1980s. Socio-Economic Review link text
2021. Winning the votes for institutional change: How discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States. Policy Studie: link text
2022. With Craig Berry & Matthew Watson. Introduction to the special section on Financialisation, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalisation. Competition & Change link text
2021. The entangled state: How state-business relations shaped the German corporate tax regime. Competition & Change: link text
Qualifications
- PhD in Political Science, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany, 2013 - September 2017
Employment
- Lecturer in International Political Economy, City, University of London, United Kingdom, January 2023 - present
- DAAD Fellow in German and Transnational Relations, King's College, London, United Kingdom, September 2018 - January 2023
- Lecturer in International Political Economy, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, September 2017 - September 2018
Publications
Publications by category
Journal articles (9)
- Labarca, J.T. and Rademacher, I. (2026). The only game in town: central bank politicisation management and macroeconomic policy discourse at the zero-lower-bound. New Political Economy pp. 1-24. doi:10.1080/13563467.2026.2672498
- Rademacher, I. (2025). Central banks, monetary stability, and the varieties of capital control liberalization. Socio-Economic Review, 23(3), pp. 1511-1537. doi:10.1093/ser/mwae077
- Ergen, T. and Rademacher, I. (2023). The Silicon Valley imaginary: US corporate tax reform in the 1980s. Socio-Economic Review, 21(2), pp. 935-957. doi:10.1093/ser/mwab051
- Rademacher, I. (2022). Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States. Policy Studies, 43(6), pp. 1173-1194. doi:10.1080/01442872.2021.1946027
- Rademacher, I. (2022). One state, one interest? How a historic shock to the balance of power of the Bundesbank and the German government laid the path for fiscal austerity. Review of International Political Economy, 29(6), pp. 1987-2009. doi:10.1080/09692290.2021.1953109
- Mavroudeas, S.D. (2022). Desmond McNeill, Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century. Competition & Change, 26(5), pp. 650-652. doi:10.1177/10245294211039671
- Rademacher, I. (2022). Craig Berry, Julie Froud and Tom Barker (eds), The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK. Competition & Change, 26(5), pp. 653-655. doi:10.1177/10245294211044039
- Rademacher, I. (2022). The entangled state: How state-business relations shaped the German corporate tax regime. Competition & Change, 26(2), pp. 220-241. doi:10.1177/1024529420985174
- Berry, C., Rademacher, I. and Watson, M. (2022). Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization. Competition & Change, 26(2), pp. 215-219. doi:10.1177/10245294221086864