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  1. The politics of social-ecological justice and the paradox of economization

    Article • Competition & Change, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Francesco Laruffa

  2. Beyond the “Always-Embedded Economy”: Rethinking the Foundations of Socioeconomics

    Article • Politics & Society, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Francesco Laruffa

  3. Transforming Social Policies and Institutions in a Capability Perspective: Agency, Voice and the Capability to Aspire

    Article • Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Francesco Laruffa

  4. Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics

    Article • Critical Social Policy, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Francesco Laruffa

  5. A model to follow? The EU and global eco-social policy

    Article • Global Social Policy, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Francesco Laruffa

  6. Making Sense of (Post)Neoliberalism

    Article • Politics & Society, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Francesco Laruffa

  7. Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment

    Article • Critical Policy Studies, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Francesco Laruffa

  8. The dilemma of “sustainable welfare” and the problem of the future in capacitating social policy

    Article • Sustainability Science Practice and Policy, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Francesco Laruffa

  9. Neoliberal globalization, hegemonic crisis, and the struggle for a countermovement the case of the ‘Responsible Business Initiative’ in Switzerland

    Article • Globalizations, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Francesco Laruffa

  10. Neoliberalism, Economization and the Paradox of the New Welfare State

    Article • European Journal of Sociology, March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Francesco Laruffa

  11. Toward a post‐neoliberal social citizenship?

    Article • Constellations, February 2022, Wiley

    Francesco Laruffa

  12. From an Ordoliberal idea to a Social‐Democratic ideal? The European Parliament and the institutionalization of ‘social market economy’ in the European Union (1957‐2007)

    Article • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, December 2021, Wiley

    Francesco Laruffa

  13. Towards a Capability-Oriented Eco-Social Policy: Elements of a Normative Framework

    Article • Social Policy and Society, December 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Francesco Laruffa

  14. Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State

    Article • Social Policy and Society, November 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Francesco Laruffa

  15. Studying the relationship between social policy promotion and neoliberalism: the case of social investment

    Article • New Political Economy, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Francesco Laruffa

  16. Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness

    Article • Policy & Politics, July 2021, Policy Press

    Francesco Laruffa

  17. What is a Capability-enhancing Social Policy? Individual Autonomy, Democratic Citizenship and the Insufficiency of the Employment-focused Paradigm

    Article • Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Francesco Laruffa

  18. Social Welfare Discourses and Scholars’ Ethical-Political Dilemmas in the Crisis of Neoliberalism

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Francesco Laruffa

  19. Human beings as receivers, doers and judges. The anthropological foundations of sustainable public action in the capability approach

    Article • Community Work & Family, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Jean-Michel Bonvin, Francesco Laruffa

  20. Deliberative democracy in the real world, the contribution of the capability approach

    Article • International Review of Sociology, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Jean-Michel Bonvin, Francesco Laruffa

  21. Is social investment enough to overcome neo-liberalism?

    Article • Critical Social Policy, December 2017, SAGE Publications

    Francesco Laruffa

  22. Towards a Critical Sociology of Democracy: The Potential of the Capability Approach

    Article • Critical Sociology, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Jean-Michel Bonvin, Francesco Laruffa