2026 Paul Langley: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	36	2787	2525	329	304	80	6663

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Economics and Finance

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6663

Overview

Paul Langley is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within economics, business, and social sciences, focusing on the interface of finance, digital technologies, and political economy.

The main fields of study in their work include:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Business, Management and Accounting
Social Sciences

Within these broad fields, Langley explores subfields such as:

Management Information Systems
Sociology and Political Science
Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Information Systems

Their research topics cover a range of contemporary issues related to finance and digital transformation, including:

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Digital Economy and Work Transformation
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Sharing Economy and Platforms
Political Economy and Marxism
Political and Economic history of UK and US

Langley has published in several academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

Journal of Cultural Economy
Economy and Society
Geoforum
New Political Economy
Review of International Political Economy

Notable recent papers include:

The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation (2020) in New Political Economy
Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism (2020) in Review of International Political Economy
Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021) in Economy and Society
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa (2022) in Journal of Cultural Economy
Central banks: Climate governors of last resort? (2020) in Environment and Planning A Economy and Space

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as:

Andrew Leyshon
John Morris
Colin McFarlane
Joe Painter
Antonis Vradis

Best Publications

The Everyday Life of Global Finance: Saving and Borrowing in Anglo-America

Paul Langley

1290
Citations
Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation

Paul Langley;Andrew Leyshon

1020
Citations
Uncertain Subjects of Anglo-American Financialization

Paul Langley

379
Citations
Ambiguities of global civil society

Louise Amoore;Paul Langley

271
Citations
The making of investor subjects in Anglo-American pensions.

Paul Langley

268
Citations
Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis

Paul Langley

205
Citations
The platform political economy of FinTech: reintermediation, consolidation and capitalisation.

Paul Langley;Andrew Leyshon

198
Citations
Capitalizing on the crowd : the monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding.

Paul Langley;Andrew Leyshon

188
Citations
Financialization and the Consumer Credit Boom

Paul Langley

187
Citations
Sub-prime mortgage lending: a cultural economy

Paul Langley

186
Citations
In the eye of the ‘perfect storm’: the final salary pensions crisis and financialisation of Anglo‐American capitalism

Paul Langley

179
Citations
Liquidity Lost: The Governance of the Global Financial Crisis

Paul Langley

167
Citations
World Financial Orders: An Historical International Political Economy

Paul Langley

164
Citations
Securitising Suburbia: The Transformation of Anglo-American Mortgage Finance

Paul Langley

164
Citations
Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism.

Paul Langley

143
Citations
Everyday Politics of the World Economy

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129
Citations
Overturning ‘Globalisation’: Resisting the teleological, reclaiming the ‘political’

Louise Amoore;Richard Dodgson;Barry K. Gills;Paul Langley

123
Citations
The everyday life of global finance

Paul Langley

123
Citations
Pluralizing and problematizing carbon finance

Gavin Bridge;Harriet Bulkeley;Paul Langley;Bregje van Veelen

106
Citations
Crowdfunding in the United Kingdom: A Cultural Economy

Paul Langley

101
Citations
Digital interface design and power: Friction, threshold, transition:

James Ash;Ben Anderson;Rachel Gordon;Paul Langley

89
Citations
Debt, discipline, and government: foreclosure and forbearance in the subprime mortgage crisis

Paul Langley

89
Citations
Paths to a historicized international political economy

Louise Amoore;Richard Dodgson;Randall D. Germain;Barry K. Gills

84
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Anderson Durham University

Andrew Leyshon University of Nottingham

Harriet Bulkeley Durham University

Gavin Bridge Durham University

External Links

Personal website of Paul Langley Google Scholar page

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