Jakob Viskum Vestergaard

Forskning

I have worked extensively on international financial regulation, from the financial crisis in Asia in the late 1990s to the global financial crisis in 2008 and the subsequent banking and sovereign debt crisis in the EU. I am particularly interested in mapping and analysing competing perspectives on financial crises, and on problematizing dominant policy responses to these events, that has so dramatic societal costs. Closely related to this is a firm interest in the conditions under which international policy norms for economic development and financial stability change, or not. I take an interest in these issues not only as a crucial economic policy concern, but also from a perspective of social theory. To what extent and how do these events – and the modes of reasoning and governmental techniques that are mobilized in dealing with them – lead to reconfigurations of what constitutes a ‘proper’ mode of organizing our economies? In the US-China trade war as well as in issues of euro reforms, I surmise that we are witnessing a destabilization and recasting of what is considered legitimate state-market boundaries that I aim to document, analyse and problematize.

Undervisning

My teaching activities and interests:

• History of Economic Thought
• Modern Economic History
• Institutional Economics
• International Public Economics
• Global Political Economy
• History and Politics of Money and Finance 

I have a strong interest in supervising projects that engages with economic discourse from constructivist or poststructuralist perspectives.    

Ledelse og samarbejde

I have experience with research management from the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), where I headed the research group on global political economy and from Roskilde University, where I co-founded and headed the research group on Economic Policy, Institutions and Change (EPIC). I am currently Head of Studies for Socio-Economics at Roskilde University.

Contributing to policy debates in Denmark and abroad is an important, personal objective. I have written more than 15 op-eds for leading international media (Financial Times, New York Times, etc) and more than 60 essays for Danish media (Information, Weekendavisen, Politiken, Ræson mm).