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Overview

Fred Block is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research focus includes areas related to innovation policy, economic theory, and the intersection of sociology and political science.

Their recent publications feature papers such as "Revisiting the Hidden Developmental State" (2023, Politics & Society), "Network Failure and the Evolution of the US Innovation System" (2020, Journal of Industry Competition and Trade), "Freedom from the Market: America's Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand" (2022, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews), and "Technology and productivity: a critique of aggregate indicators" (2022, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics). These works address themes across innovation systems, economic analysis, and sociopolitical dynamics in market contexts.

Fred Block has frequently collaborated with the following coauthors:

  • Matthew R. Keller
  • Marian Negoita
  • Margaret R. Somers
  • Eliah Bures
  • Cas Mudde

The scientist's publications commonly appear in academic journals such as:

  • Politics & Society
  • Theory and Society
  • Dissent
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • Sociology Compass

Fred Block's research spans several subfields of study including Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, and Global and Planetary Change. Their work covers specific topics such as Innovation Policy and R&D, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, University-Industry-Government Innovation Models, Economic Growth and Productivity, Economic Theory and Policy, Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting, and Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Best Publications

  • From Poverty to Perversity: Ideas, Markets, and Institutions over 200 Years of Welfare Debate:

    Margaret R. Somers;Fred Block

  • Vision and method in historical sociology

    Theda Skocpol

  • The Power of Market Fundamentalism

    Fred Block;Margaret R. Somers

  • Swimming Against the Current: The Rise of a Hidden Developmental State in the United States:

    Fred Block

  • Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies

    Fred Block;Suzanne Berger;Michael J. Piore

  • The Ruling Class Does Not Rule: Notes on the Marxist Theory of the State

    Fred Block

  • Karl Polanyi and the writing of The Great Transformation

    Fred Block

  • Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies

    Fred Block;Gosta Esping-Andersen

  • Revising State Theory: Essays in Politics and Postindustrialism

    Fred L. Block

  • Vision and Method in Historical Sociology: Beyond the Economistic Fallacy: The Holistic Social Science of Karl Polanyi

    Fred Block;Margaret R. Somers

  • State of Innovation: The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development

    Fred L. Block;Matthew R. Keller

  • The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A Study of United States International Monetary Policy from World War II to the Present

    Fred L. Block

  • Where do innovations come from? Transformations in the US economy, 1970–2006

    Fred Block;Matthew R. Keller

  • In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law:

    Fred Block;Margaret Somers

  • The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique

    Fred Block

  • Beyond relative autonomy: State managers as historical subjects∗

    Fred Block

  • Revising state theory

    Fred L. Block

  • Late Capitalism

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  • Beyond Relative Autonomy: State Managers as Historical Subjects

    Fred Block

  • Understanding the Diverging Trajectories of the United States and Western Europe: A Neo-Polanyian Analysis

    Fred Block

  • Explaining the transformation in the US innovation system: the impact of a small government program

    Matthew R. Keller;Fred Block

  • The mean season : the attack on the welfare state

    Fred L. Block

  • Polanyi’s Double Movement and the Reconstruction of Critical Theory

    Fred Block

  • Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative

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  • The Fiscal Crisis of the Capitalist State

    F Block

  • The Geometry of Imperialism

    Fred Block;Giovanni Arrighi

  • Deconstructing capitalism as a system

    Fred Block

  • Regulatory Capitalism: How it Works, Ideas for Making it Work Better:

    Fred Block

  • Political choice and the multiple “logics” of capital

    Fred Block

  • The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

    Fred Block

  • The Vampire State and Other Myths and Fallacies about the U.S. Economy@@@Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial "Downsizing"

    Davita Silfen Glasberg;Fred L. Block;David M. Gordon

  • Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble

    Fred Block

Frequent Co-Authors

Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven City University of New York
Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi Johns Hopkins University
Mark Granovetter
Mark Granovetter Stanford University
Martin Carnoy
Martin Carnoy Stanford University
Bob Jessop
Bob Jessop Lancaster University
Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley
John H. Goldthorpe
John H. Goldthorpe University of Oxford
William Diebold
William Diebold Reed College
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Gøsta Esping-Andersen Pompeu Fabra University

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