Assistant Professor
Areas of Specialization: comparative political economy; international political economy; business-state relations; institutional change; antitrust; intellectual property rights; the politics of economic ideas; European politics.
Erik Peinert an assistant professor of Political Science at Boston University. He is a comparative and international political economist, and his research focuses on the political economy of advanced industrial states and the politics of economic policymaking, particularly in the domain competition and market power. This incorporates diverse topics such as trade policy, industrial policy, and intellectual property, and draws theoretically from different disciplines, such at sociology, psychology, and economics.
His book project, Monopoly Politics: Price Competition, Learning, and the Evolution of Policy Regimes (under contract with oxford University Press), seeks to understand why many industrialized countries have alternated in the long run between national policy regimes in favor of enforcing price competition on one hand, and supporting market power and domestic monopolies on the other.
His academic research has been published in the Review of International Political Economy and World Politics. His public writing has appeared in Promarket, The Hill, Persuasion, and American Affairs.
Peinert completed his PhD in political science at Brown University in 2020. Prior to coming to Boston University, he was a research manager at the American Economic Liberties Project, a DC-based think tank focused on antimonopoly policy. He has had had research affiliations with the Rhodes Center for International Finance at Brown University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, the Center for European Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
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