Most Cited Articles

“The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics.” American Political Science Review, 85, 1991, pp. 77-96.

“Society, Economy, and the State Effect.” In State/Culture: State-Formation After the Cultural Turn. Ed. George Steinmetz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999, pp. 76-97.

“Everyday Metaphors of Power.”Theory and Society, 19, 1990, pp. 545-77.

“The World as Exhibition.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 31, 1989, pp. 217-36.

“The Stage of Modernity.” In Questions of Modernity. Edited by Timothy Mitchell. University of Minnesota Press, 2000 pp. 1-34.

“The Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes its World.” European Journal of Sociology, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 297-320, 2005.

Fixing the Economy.” Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no.1, 1998, 82-101.

Carbon Democracy” (.pdf), Economy and Society. Vol. 38/3, August 2009, pp. 399-432.

“The Object of Development: America’s Egypt.” In Power of Development. Ed. Jonathan Crush. London and New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. 129-57.

“The Middle East in the Past and Future of Social Science.” In The Politics of Knowledge:  Area Studies and the Disciplines, edited by David L. Szanton. University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, Edited Volume No. 3, 2003.

Economentality: How the Future Entered Government” (.pdf) Critical Inquiry, Vol. 40, no 4, 479-507, 2014.