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54
Citations
35798
World Ranking
2073
National Ranking
368

Overview

Andrew Sayer is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and works primarily within the social sciences, with a strong focus on economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research intersects subfields such as sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, as well as organizational behavior and human resource management.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Political and Economic History of the UK and US
  • Critical Realism in Sociology
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes

Andrew Sayer has contributed to various academic journals and has been frequently published in:

  • Journal of Critical Realism
  • Public Health
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Sociology
  • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Selected recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests and include:

  • Economic relationships and health inequalities: improving public health recommendations, 2021, Public Health
  • Rentiership, improperty and moral economy, 2020, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Critiquing - and Rescuing - 'Character', 2020, Sociology
  • A realist journey through social theory and political economy: an interview with Andrew Sayer, 2022, Journal of Critical Realism
  • Affirming the District Judge: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of District Judges Sitting by Designation on Circuit Court Panels, 2021, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Their research collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Gerry McCartney
  • Jamie Morgan
  • Melanie Hess
  • Matthew E. K. Hall
  • Melissa Beresford

Best Publications

  • Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach

    R. Andrew Sayer

  • Realism and Social Science

    R. Andrew Sayer

  • Method in Social Science: Revised 2nd Edition

    Andrew Sayer

  • The Moral Significance of Class

    R. Andrew Sayer

  • Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life

    R. Andrew Sayer

  • The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor

    R. Andrew Sayer;Richard Walker

  • Method in Social Science

    Andrew Sayer

  • Class, Moral Worth and Recognition

    Andrew Sayer

  • Postfordism in question

    Andrew Sayer

  • The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor

    Ann-Katrin Backlund;Andrew Sayer;Richard Walker

  • Moral Economy and Political Economy

    Andrew Sayer

  • Why We Can't Afford the Rich

    R. Andrew Sayer

  • Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and beyond:

    Andrew Sayer

  • For a Critical Cultural Political Economy

    Andrew Sayer

  • New developments in manufacturing: the just-in-time system

    Andrew Sayer

  • Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn

    Larry J. Ray;R. Andrew Sayer

  • Critical Realism and Semiosis

    Norman Fairclough;Bob Jessop;Andrew Sayer

  • Contemporary British Society

    Nicholas Abercrombie;A. Warde;R. Deem;Sue Penna

  • The Difference that Space Makes

    Andrew Sayer

  • The ‘New’ Regional Geography and Problems of Narrative

    A Sayer

  • On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation

    Andrew Sayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
John Urry
John Urry Lancaster University
Norman Fairclough
Norman Fairclough Lancaster University
Sylvia Walby
Sylvia Walby City, University of London
Bob Jessop
Bob Jessop Lancaster University
Rosemary Deem
Rosemary Deem Royal Holloway University of London
Susan J. Smith
Susan J. Smith University of Cambridge
Alan Warde
Alan Warde University of Manchester
Eric Sheppard
Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles
Mike Savage
Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science

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