Leonard Seabrooke

Leonard Seabrooke
Born	1974 Elizabeth, South Australia
Scientific career
Fields	International Political Economy International Relations Economic Sociology
Institutions	Copenhagen Business School

Leonard Seabrooke is a Copenhagen Business School Professor in International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Organization.^[1] Len Seabrooke's research primarily concerns the role of professionals and experts in treating social and economic problems, the politics of access to credit, tax, and property within economies, and the role of 'Global Wealth Chains' in the international political economy. He has also worked on the social sources of how states generate international financial capacity, how 'everyday politics' has influence in the world economy, how international organizations create policy scripts, and the connection between welfare systems, housing, fertility, and international finance. Seabrooke has published articles in highly ranked international peer review journals in the fields of International Political Economy and Economic and Organizational Sociology, including American Sociological Review, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of European Public Policy, Organization, Public Administration, Review of International Political Economy, and many others. Seabrooke was also the Director of Studies of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform,^[2] which brought together economists, political scientists, and lawyers from both the scholarly and policy worlds to discuss financial reform and re-regulation.

Seabrooke was Principal Investigator of the 'Professions in International Political Economies' (PIPES) project (2011-2014) funded by the European Research Council^[3] and led a research team based at the Copenhagen Business School. He was a Work Package Leader of the 'Global Reordering: Evolution though European Networks' (GR:EEN) large-scale integrating project (2011-2015),^[4] funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research. From 2015-18 he was Chief Scientist on an EC Horizon 2020^[5] project titled ENLIGHTEN^[6] ('European Legitimacy in Governing Through Hard Times'), which dealt with how political and expert networks operate in 'fast-burning' and 'slow-burning' crises within Europe. He also led a project tracing the careers, networks, and ideas of economists for the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Seabrooke is a work package leader for the European Research Council Advanced Grant 'CORPLINK' on changes in international corporate form, as well as a researcher on the EC Horizon 2020 COFFERS^[7] (Combatting Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators) project addressing tax avoidance and money laundering issues.

Publications

• Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy (edited with Jon Pevehouse, Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Global Tax Battles (co-authored with Duncan Wigan, Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Global Wealth Chains (edited with Duncan Wigan, Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Professional Networks in Transnational Governance (edited with Lasse Folke Henriksen, Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness (edited with Susana Borrás, Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Seeing Like an International Organization (edited with André Broome, Routledge, 2014)
• The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts (edited with Herman Schwartz, Palgrave, 2009)
• Everyday Politics of the World Economy (edited with John M. Hobson, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• The Social Sources of Financial Power (Cornell University Press, 2006)
• Global Standards of Market Civilization (edited with Brett Bowden, Routledge, 2006)
• US Power in International Finance (Palgrave, 2001)

Music

Len Seabrooke plays bass guitar and sings in the 'bluegaze' group Me After You^[8] with Federico Festino. Their album, Foughts, was produced by Andy Miller, of Mogwai fame, and released with Custom Made Music in 2013. Seabrooke also plays in the band For Satan, as well as bass in Junk Boat,^[9] with Duncan Wigan. He also occasionally plays bass and/or bouzouki for South African musician Jim Neversink, and Norwegian singer Håkon Lervåg.^[10]

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