| The limits of transparency: Ambiguity and the history of international finance J Best Cornell University Press, 2005 | 451 | 2005 |
| Governing failure: Provisional expertise and the transformation of global development finance J Best Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 213 | 2014 |
| Cultural political economy J Best, M Paterson Routledge, 2010 | 210 | 2010 |
| Ambiguity, uncertainty, and risk: Rethinking indeterminacy J Best International Political Sociology 2 (4), 355-374, 2008 | 203 | 2008 |
| Bureaucratic ambiguity J Best An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance, 84-106, 2016 | 147 | 2016 |
| From the top–down: The new financial architecture and the re-embedding of global finance J Best New political economy 8 (3), 363-384, 2003 | 142 | 2003 |
| Ambiguity and uncertainty in international organizations: A history of debating IMF conditionality J Best International Studies Quarterly 56 (4), 674-688, 2012 | 123 | 2012 |
| Legitimacy dilemmas: The IMF's pursuit of country ownership J Best Third World Quarterly 28 (3), 469-488, 2007 | 121 | 2007 |
| “Actor-Network Theory” and international relationality: lost (and found) in translation: introduction J Best, W Walters International Political Sociology 7 (3), 332-334, 2013 | 116 | 2013 |
| The Limits of Financial Risk Management: Or what we didn't learn from the Asian Crisis J Best New political economy 15 (1), 29-49, 2010 | 115 | 2010 |
| Why the economy is often the exception to politics as usual J Best Theory, Culture & Society 24 (4), 87-109, 2007 | 89 | 2007 |
| Redefining Poverty as Risk and Vulnerability: shifting strategies of liberal economic governance J Best Third World Quarterly 34 (1), 109-129, 2013 | 84 | 2013 |
| Hollowing out Keynesian norms: how the search for a technical fix undermined the Bretton Woods regime J Best Review of international studies 30 (3), 383-404, 2004 | 82 | 2004 |
| Micro-or macro-moralities? Economic discourses and policy possibilities J Best, W Widmaier Review of International Political Economy 13 (4), 609-631, 2006 | 69 | 2006 |
| The return of the public in global governance J Best, A Gheciu Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| The return of the public in global governance J Best, A Gheciu Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| Translating the sociology of translation J Best, W Walters International Political Sociology 7 (3), 345-349, 2013 | 52 | 2013 |
| Review article moralizing finance: The new financial architecture as ethical discourse J Best Review of International Political Economy 10 (3), 579-603, 2003 | 48 | 2003 |
| When crises are failures: Contested metrics in international finance and development J Best International political sociology 10 (1), 39-55, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
| Rethinking central bank accountability in uncertain times J Best Ethics & International Affairs 30 (2), 215-232, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
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