Gabe Eckhouse

Gabe Eckhouse

Research Areas

Political Economies 

Critical Environments 

Interests

  • Political economy of energy markets
  • Oil, gas, batteries, and critical mineral supply chains
  • Market volatility, investment, and uncertainty
  • Material conditions of production and their role in shaping markets

Contact Information


Email: Gabe.Eckhouse@hhs.se

Address: Center for Philosophies of Markets

Stockholm School of Economics

Box 6501, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden

Biography

Gabe Eckhouse is an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he studies the political economy of energy markets and the changing structure of the global energy system.

His work focuses on the global oil and gas industry as well as critical minerals and battery supply chains. It examines how the material conditions of production—geology, extraction technologies, infrastructure, and industrial organization—shape market formation, volatility, and investment.

His book Carbon Purgatory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026) analyzes the contemporary energy system as a prolonged and uneven transition in which fossil fuels remain central even as alternatives expand. It argues that this condition produces a more volatile and uncertain restructuring of energy markets rather than a linear transition.

Eckhouse is the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for the project Materializing Renewable Capital and a 2025 FORMAS Early Career Grant on the development of a Nordic battery industry.

Education

Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Deep Springs College

Teaching


At UC Berkeley, Eckhouse taught courses in economic geography, development, and environment, including:

  • GEOG 130 – Food and the Environment
  • GEOG C32 – Introduction to Development
  • GEOG 110 – Economic Geography of the Industrial World
  • Geographies of Energy

Selected Publications

  • “Performing energy: the International Energy Agency and the conflicting imaginaries of capitalist energy transition,” New Political Economy (2025)
  • Eckhouse, G. & Gibbs, E. “Two Late Imperial Oil Booms,” Geoforum (forthcoming)
  • “COVID-19, global oil market volatility, and the renewable energy transition,” Environment and Planning A (2022)
  • Eckhouse, G. & Zalik, A. “Whither hydrocarbons?” Environment and Planning A (2022)
  • “United States hydraulic fracturing’s short-cycle revolution,” Geoforum (2021)