Research

Projects

Decoding Crisis: An AI-Driven Approach to Crisis Narratives in Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective

Publications

Polillo, Simone, and André Vereta-Nahoum. “Crisis: Sovereign or Distributed?” American Behavioral Scientist 68(14): 1819–1831. First published online in 2022; issue published in 2024.

Polillo, Simone. “The Economic Exception: How the Bank of Italy Framed Crisis to Govern, 1960–1984.” Review of International Political Economy 33(1): 349–378 (published online 2025; 2026 issue).

Makarov, Egor, and Simone Polillo. “Economic Emergencies: Exception, Government and the Management of the Economy.” Journal of Cultural Economy 18(5): 753–773 (2025).

Polillo, Simone. “Economy, Politics, and Critical Events: From Transformation to Permanent Crisis.” Economic Sociology: Perspectives and Conversations 25(3): 6–13 (2024).

Pasanek, Brad, and Simone Polillo, eds. Beyond Liquidity: The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis. Routledge, 2013.

Polillo, Simone. “Crisis, Reputation, and the Politics of Expertise: Fictional Performativity at the Bank of Italy.” Review of Social Economy 81(3): 342–362. Published online in 2020.