Publications of Leon Wansleben

Growth Models and Central Banking: Dominant Coalitions, Organizational Sense-Making, and Conservative Policy Innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed. In: Review of International Political Economy 31(1), 2024, 124–148.

Verfallende Infrastruktur bei Rekordeinnahmen: Eine Institutionssoziologie bundesdeutscher Haushaltspolitik. In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 34(1), 2024, 103–128.

Rethinking Economic Sovereignty. In: Economic Anthropology 11(1), 2024, 148–149.

Leveraging Uncertainty, Market-Power, and Fiscal Opacity: The Growth of Financial Security States. In: European Journal of Sociology 65(2), 2024, 248–280.

Entrepreneurs beyond Neoliberalism: Municipally Owned Corporations and Climate Change Mitigation in German Cities. In: Urban Studies 61(5), 2024, 799–820.

The Constrained Politics of Local Public Investment Under Cooperative Federalism. In: Socio-Economic Review 21(2), 2023, 1007–1034.

Introduction: The Structural Power of Finance Meets Financialization. In: Politics & Society 50(4), 2022, 523–542.

Capitalization and its Legal Friends. In: Accounting, Economics, and Law 11(1), 2021, 53–64.

Divisions of Regulatory Labor, Institutional Closure, and Structural Secrecy in New Regulatory States: The Case of Neglected Liquidity Risks in Market‐Based Banking. In: Regulation & Governance 15(3), 2021, 909–932.

How Central Bankers Learned to Love Financialization: The Fed, the Bank, and the Enlisting of Unfettered Markets in the Conduct of Monetary Policy. In: Socio-Economic Review 18(3), 2020, 625–653.

"Ghost in the Machine": Der Staat in Luhmanns Theorie politischer Systeme. In: Soziale Systeme 21(2), 2020, 279–306.

Formal Institution Building in Financialized Capitalism: The Case of Repo Markets. In: Theory and Society 49(2), 2020, 187–213.

Fiskaldemokratie und "Bailout-Staat". In: Makroskop, 16, 2023.

Öffentliche Finanzen als soziales Gewebe von Verpflichtungen und Ansprüchen: Ideen für eine neue Fiskalsoziologie. In: Gesellschaftsforschung, 2, 2021, 10–13.

"The Only Game in Town": Mächtige Zentralbanken und Defizite in der Wirtschaftspolitik. In: Gesellschaftsforschung, 1, 2020, 4–5.

The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2023.

Social Change Within, Beyond, and Against Institutions. 40 Jahre MPIfG 2025, Köln, May 16, 2025.

Sozioökonomische Segregation und Kitaversorgung: Eine georeferenzierte Analyse deutscher Städte. MPIfG Discussion Paper 25/6. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2025.

The Constrained Politics of Local Public Investments under Cooperative Federalism. MPIfG Discussion Paper 21/4. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 2021.

The "Liberal Compromise" and After: Realities and Fictions of Global Climate Governance. Economic Sociology: Perspectives and Conversations, Volume 26(2). 2025.