# Benjamin Braun (@benbraun.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/benbraun.social
Headline: Political economist

## About

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## Career

- **Assistant Professor at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)** (Sep 2024 - Present)
- **Senior Researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies** (Sep 2017 - Present)
- **Postdoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies** (Oct 2014 - Aug 2016)

## Publications

- From Performativity to Political Economy: Index Investing, ETFs, and Asset Manager Capitalism — New Political Economy (2016) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2016.1094045#.VlV8Z4SKLAM
- Speaking to the People? Money, Trust, and Central Bank Legitimacy in the Age of Quantitative Easing — Review of International Political Economy (2016) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2016.1252415
- Governing the Future: The European Central Bank’s Expectation Management During the Great Moderation — Economy and Society (2015) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2015.1049447#abstract
- Preparedness, Crisis Management and Policy Change: The Euro Area at the Critical Juncture of 2008–2013 — British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2015) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-856X.12026/abstract
- Why Models Matter: The Making and Unmaking of Governability in Macroeconomic Discourse — Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies (2014) http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2418859:3/component/escidoc:2418857/mpifg_zs14_48.pdf

## Skills

### Other
- International Political Economy
- Political Economy
- Political Science

## Education

- **University of Warwick** — Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (2011 - 2014)
- **Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München / University of Munich** — Diplom & Magister Artium (2004 - 2010)

## Links

- Personal website: https://benjaminbraun.org/