MPIfG Lectures and Events - Podcasts
Lectures from the MPIfG public lecture series and other selected events are available
as podcasts from 2012 on. The views expressed by speakers at the MPIfG events are their
personal views and do not represent the views of the MPIfG.
Fabien Accominotti
How the Reification of Merit Breeds Inequality: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Public Lecture
June 5, 2019
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Bruce Carruthers
Do Socially Responsible Corporations Pay Taxes?
Public Lecture
May 8, 2019
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Brian Burgoon
Towards a Fuller Political Economy of Radical Right and Left Nationalist Populism
Public Lecture
April 30, 2019
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Bruno Amable
From Mitterrand to Macron: On the Collapse of the French Party System
Public Lecture
January 16, 2019
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Cathie Jo Martin
Imagine All the People: Literature, Society, and Cross-National Variation in Education Systems
Public Lecture
December 4, 2018
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Norbert Walter-Borjans
Steuerflucht – „Sünde“ oder Betrug zulasten aller?
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 16, 2018
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Lisa Suckert
Taking Back Control? Die Brexit-Kampagne zwischen globalem Freihandel und ökonomischem Nationalismus
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 15, 2018
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Armin Schäfer
Der Wandel des Parteiensystem und die Krise der Sozialdemokratie
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 15, 2018
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Katja Langenbucher
The Promise of Measurability - a "Nightmare or a Noble Dream"?
Public Lecture
November 7, 2018
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Book presentation
Uncertain Futures
Panel discussion jointly organized by the MPIfG and the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
November 1, 2018
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Panel discussion
Ein soziales Europa - Vision oder Illusion?
Public panel discussion (in German) jointly organized by the MPIfG and the Cologne Central Library on the occasion of Max Planck Day
September 14, 2018
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Jörn Leonhard
Die Offenheit des historischen Augenblicks: 1919 und die Neuordnung der Welt
Public lecture (in German)
July 5, 2018
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Akos Rona-Tas
Predicting Individual Behavior
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2018
June 19, 2018
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Akos Rona-Tas
Predicting the Social World in the Aggregate
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2018
June 12, 2018
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Akos Rona-Tas
The Problem of Seeing the Future: Some Lessons from Predicting the Natural World
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2018
June 5, 2018
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Patrik Aspers
Reducing Uncertainty
Public lecture
May 30, 2018
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Conference
The Dynamics of Capitalism: Inquiries to Marx on the Occasion of His 200th Birthday
Conference jointly organized by the MPIfG and the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
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Waltraud Schelkle
The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity:
Understanding the Euro Experiment
Public lecture
January 25, 2018
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Joachim Radkau
Gedanken zur Zukunft der Zukunftsgeschichte
Public lecture (German)
December 7, 2017
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Christina Schildmann
Die Arbeit der Zukunft und die Frage der Flexibilität
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 17, 2017
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Lucio Baccaro
Capitalism Unhinged: Liberalization, Growth Models, and Secular Stagnation
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 16, 2017
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Jürgen Beyer
Multipler Wettbewerb: Zur politischen Ökonomie der Plattformwirtschaft
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 16, 2017
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Fritz W. Scharpf interviewed by Adalbert Hepp and Susanne K. Schmidt
"Auf der Suche nach der Problemlösungsfähigkeit der Politik" [The search for problem-solving ability in politics] (German)
Book presentation at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 16, 2017
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Jan-Werner Mueller
What, If Anything, Is "Illiberal Democracy"?
Public lecture
October 26, 2017
(maxNet only)
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Mary O'Sullivan
Dividends of Development: Securities Markets in the History of US Capitalism,
1866-1922
Public lecture
October 12, 2017
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Alexander Nützenadel
Staatsschuldenkrise und Finanzialisierung in Südeuropa
Public lecture (German)
July 20, 2017
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Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre
Enrichment Economy and Profit
Public lecture
June 1, 2017
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Fritz W. Scharpf
Europa im Nord-Süd-Konflikt: Muss die Währungsunion
um jeden Preis erhalten bleiben?
Max Planck Lecture (German)
May 30, 2017
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Tim Bartley
Transnational Corporations and Global Governance
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2017
May 30, 2017
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Ivan Ermakoff
On the Frontiers of Rational Choice
Public lecture
May 17, 2017
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Tim Bartley
Rethinking Transnational Governance: Private Rules, Public Law,
and Possibilities for Reform
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2017
May 16, 2017
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Tim Bartley
Beyond Empty Spaces: Structure and Substance
in the Implementation of Global Norms
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2017
May 9, 2017
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Rainer Diaz-Bone
Die "Économie des conventions": Beiträge und Trends der neuen
französischen Wirtschaftssoziologie
Public lecture (German)
February 16, 2017
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Isabelle Ferreras
Firms as Political Entities: Diagnosis and Prospects
Public lecture
January 26, 2017
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Colin Hay
Brexistential Crisis? Making Sense of British Politics after Brexit
Public lecture
January 19, 2017
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Christoph Möllers
Soziale Normen jenseits sozialer Differenzierung
Public lecture (German)
December 8, 2016
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Norbert Kluge, Erika Mezger, Wolfgang Schroeder, Rainer Zugehör
Brauchen wir noch Mitbestimmung?
Panel discussion at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
Moderator: Verena Gonsch
November 18, 2016
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Werner Eichhorst
Müssen wir vor der Zukunft der Arbeit Angst haben?
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 18, 2016
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Ulrich Dolata
Märkte und Macht der Internetkonzerne
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 18, 2016
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Torsten Kathke
Zukunftserwartungen im Rückblick
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 17, 2016
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Jens Beckert
Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 17, 2016
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Colin Crouch
Democracy in a Dangerous and Troubled World
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium
November 17, 2016
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Michael Storper
The Rise and Decline of Urban Economies: Los Angeles and San Francisco since 1970
Public lecture at the MPIfG
November 7, 2016
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Till van Treeck
Hat die Eurozone ein Deutschland-Problem?
Public lecture at the MPIfG as part of the lecture series "One Crisis - Nineteen Points of View: The Division of the Euro Area from Its Members' Perspective" (German)
July 12, 2016
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Francesco Saraceno
France and the Euro Crisis: A Tale of Two Narratives?
Public lecture at the MPIfG as part of the lecture series "One Crisis - Nineteen Points of View: The Division of the Euro Area from Its Members' Perspective"
July 5, 2016
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Maurizio Ferrera
From Bad to Good Pupil? Italy's Journey (and Voice) through the Euro Crisis
Public lecture at the MPIfG as part of the lecture series "One Crisis - Nineteen Points of View: The Division of the Euro Area from Its Members' Perspective"
May 24, 2016
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Costas Lapavitsas
The Greek Disaster and the Future of the EMU
Public lecture at the MPIfG as part of the lecture series "One Crisis - Nineteen Points of View: The Division of the Euro Area from Its Members' Perspective"
May 10, 2016
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Richard Bronk
Uncertainty and the Dangers of Monocultures in Regulation, Analysis and Practice
Public lecture at the MPIfG
February 10, 2016
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Arthur Alderson
Inequality, Status, and Subjective Well-Being
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 27, 2016
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Neil Fligstein
Why the Federal Reserve Failed to See the Financial Crisis of 2008: The Role of "Macroeconomics" as Sense-Making and Cultural Frame
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 26, 2016
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Shamus Khan
From Cultural Purity to Segregated Inclusion: Subscribers to the
New York Philharmonic in the Gilded Age
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 12, 2016
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John Christensen
The National Competitiveness Revolution and the Race to Below the Bottom
Public lecture at the MPIfG
December 8, 2015
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Birgit Helten-Kindlein, Katharina Heuer, Stefan Pfeifer
Familie und Beruf: "Kolonialisierung der Lebenswelt?"
Panel discussion at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
Moderator: Werner Eichhorst
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Hans-Peter Klös
Arbeitswelt - Fachkräfte - Politik: Fachkräftesicherung und Demografie
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 6, 2015
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Marius Busemeyer
Arbeitswelt - Fachkräfte - Politik: Fachkräfte und Berufsbildung
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 6, 2015
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Annina T. Hering, Wolfgang Streeck, Sara Weckemann
Wachsende Wirtschaft, schrumpfende Familien?
Introduction, Wolfgang Streeck
Unsicherheiten und ihre Folgen für das Geburtenverhalten, Annina T. Hering
Viele Kinder, keine Arbeit: Mütter an der Armutsgrenze, Sara Weckemann
Public lectures at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 5, 2015
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Florian Coulmas
Japans Alterung: ein katastrophaler Erfolg?
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 5, 2015
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Lucio Baccaro
Tying Your Hands … and Getting Stuck: The Italian Political Economy under the "External Constraint" Regime
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015-2016
October 21, 2015
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Klaus Weber
Translation in Action
Public lecture at the MPIfG
October 20, 2015
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Lucio Baccaro
Weakening Institutions, Hardening Growth Model: The Liberalization of the German Political Economy
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015-2016
October 14, 2015
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Lucio Baccaro
Rethinking Comparative Political Economy: Growth Models and Distributive Dynamics
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015-2016
October 7, 2015
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Wolfgang Streeck
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
Panel discussion, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
Annual Conference 2015, London
Panelists:
Craig Calhoun (London School of Economics)
Amitai Etzioni (George Washington University)
Wolfgang Streeck (MPIfG)
Polly Toynbee (The Guardian)
July 9, 2015
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Lutz Raphael
Eine Problemgeschichte der Gegenwart schreiben: Beobachtungen im Niemandsland zwischen Politischer Ökonomie, Zeitgeschichte und Soziologie
Public lecture at the MPIfG (German)
July 9, 2015
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David Brady
Path Dependency and the Politics of Socialized Medicine
Public lecture at the MPIfG
June 18, 2015
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Balazs Vedres
Escaping Network Gravity: Relational Structures for Generating Novelty
Public lecture at the MPIfG
June 3, 2015
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Isabela Mares
From Open Secrets to Secret Ballots: The Adoption of Political Reforms
Protecting Electoral Autonomy
Public lecture at the MPIfG
May 21, 2015
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David Rueda
Redistribution Preferences, Altruism and Group Heterogeneity in Industrialized Democracies
Public lecture at the MPIfG
April 30, 2015
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Robert Boyer
Why Has Leading Macroeconomic Thinking Become Irrelevant? Macroeconomics
as a Profession
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015
April 29, 2015
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Robert Boyer
An Analytical History of Macroeconomic Theory since John Maynard Keynes
(General Theory, 1936)
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015
April 22, 2015
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Wolfgang Streeck
Warum der Euro Europa spaltet statt es zu einen
WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences, Berlin Social Science Center (German)
April 21, 2015
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Robert Boyer
Success and Crisis of European Integration: The Role of Economic Theory and
Expert Representations
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015
April 15, 2015
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Fred Block
Innovation and the Contested Transformation of the US Political Economy
Public lecture at the MPIfG
March 26, 2015
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Fabian Muniesa
Setting the Habit of Capitalization
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 29, 2015
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Jens Beckert
Imaginierte Zukünfte: Fiktionale Erwartungen und kapitalistische Dynamik
Lecture at the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (German)
December 12, 2014
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Moritz Schularick
Financialization: Questions for Economic History
Public lecture at the MPIfG
December 4, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Book Panel at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in
Market Societies (MaxPo)
November 20, 2014
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Kathleen Thelen
Capitalism in Time
Laudatio in honor of Wolfgang Streeck upon his retirement in October 2014
October 31, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Gesellschaftssteuerung heute
Valedictory lecture upon Wolfgang Streeck's retirement in October 2014 (German)
October 30, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Public lecture at the London School of Economics
October 20, 2014
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Stefan Svallfors
Politics as Organized Combat: New Players and New Rules of the Game in Sweden
Public lecture at the MPIfG
October 16, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Capitalism Studies: Wolfgang Streeck
Julia Ott, Associate Professor of History, The New School for Liberal Arts,
discusses with Wolfgang Streeck
October 9, 2014
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Simone Polillo
Theorizing Efficient Markets
Public lecture at the MPIfG
June 26, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution and the
Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Public lecture at the Institutet för Framtidsstudier Stockholm
June 3, 2014
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Nigel Dodd
Vires in Numeris: Taking Simmel to MtGox
Public lecture at the MPIfG
May 22, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Has Capitalism Seen Its Day?
Public lecture at the Havens Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 20, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Book talk at Columbia University, New York
Panelists:
Adam Tooze, Professor of History, Yale University
Katharina Pistor, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Bruce Kogut, Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School
Josh Whitford, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
April 3, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
This Time Is Serious: Captialism on the Brink
Public lecture at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
March 27, 2014
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Francesco Boldizzoni
Can Welfare Survive? Capitalism, Socialism, and the Post-Industrial Order
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2014
February 12, 2014
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Francesco Boldizzoni
Reframing Justice in the Age of Revolution
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2014
February 5, 2014
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Jenny Andersson
Prediction as a Source of Social Power:
The History of Forecasting from the RAND Corporation to the Financial Crisis
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 30, 2014
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Francesco Boldizzoni
The Early Modern Origins of Modern Welfare Systems
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2014
January 29, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Has Capitalism Seen its Day?
Public lecture at the British Academy
January 25, 2014
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Mitchell Stevens
Education without States
Public lecture at the MPIfG
December 12, 2013
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Thomas Piketty
Capital in the Twenty-first Century
Public lecture at the MPIfG
December 5, 2013
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Stephan Leibfried
Krise des Staates oder Krise der Staatsforschung?
Von der Zerfaserung des Staates und seiner Wissenschaft
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 8, 2013
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Hanspeter Kriesi
Die politischen Folgen der Finanzkrise in Europa:
Wahlergebnisse und Bürgerproteste
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 7, 2013
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Renate Mayntz
Markt oder Staat? Kooperationsprobleme in der Europäischen Union
Public lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (German)
November 6, 2013
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Martin H. Geyer
Welche Krise? Spekulation, Korruption und Staat in den wirtschaftspolitischen Auseinandersetzungen in der Zeit der Großen Depression
Public lecture at the MPIfG (German)
July 11, 2013
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Lucio Baccaro and Chiara Benassi
The Evolution of German Industrial Relations: Softening Institutions,
Hardening Growth Model
Public lecture at the MPIfG
June 6, 2013
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Wolfgang Streeck
Die vertagte Krise – oder Demokratie und Kapitalismus als Hase und Igel
Wolfgang Streeck discusses with Carolin Emcke (German)
May 26, 2013
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Christine Musselin
Market and Pricing in Higher Education
Public lecture at the MPIfG
May 16, 2013
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Terence C. Halliday
Global Legislators: Producing Commercial Laws for Global Markets
Public lecture at the MPIfG
May 2, 2013
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Patrick Le Galès
Governing the Large Metropolis: What Is Governed and Not Governed?
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013
April 2, 2013
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Patrick Le Galès
Governing by Instruments? Comparing Two Policies, Three Countries
and the European Union over Thirty Years
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013
March 26, 2013
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Patrick Le Galès
Globalizing European Urban Bourgeoisie? Transnationalization and
Rootedness of Managers in Four European Cities
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013
March 19, 2013
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Wolfgang Streeck
The Crisis of the European State System
Public lecture at the German Center for Research and Innovation New York
February 28, 2013
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Francesco Boldizzoni
On History and Policy: Time in the Age of Neoliberalism
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 24, 2013
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Gert Pickel
Religiosität als Marktfolge und Vermarktlichung des Religiösen?
Public lecture at the MPIfG (German)
January 10, 2013
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Carsten Burhop, Rainer Hank, Peter Spahn, Paul Windolf
Panel discussion
Geld und Schuld im Kapitalismus
Moderation: Christoph Deutschmann
Panel discussion at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
December 7, 2012
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Daniel Seikel, Wolfgang Streeck, Benjamin Werner
Landesbanken und Volkswagengesetz: Zwei Fallbeispiele
zur Wucht der europäischen "Integration durch Recht"
Introduction, Wolfgang Streeck
Die Liberalisierung von Landesbanken und Sparkassen in Deutschland, Daniel Seikel
Der Niedergang der Goldenen Aktien: Wie der Europäische Gerichtshof die Unternehmenskontrolle liberalisiert, Benjamin Werner
Public lectures at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
December 7, 2012
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Bodo Hombach
Was erwartet die Politik von der Wissenschaft und was nicht?
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
December 6, 2012
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Philip Mader, Sigrid Quack, Sabrina Zajak
Arbeitsstandards und Mikrofinanz:
Institutionenbildung durch transnationale Mobilisierung
Introduction, Sigrid Quack
Im Schatten des Drachens: Transnationaler Arbeitsrechtsaktivismus zwischen
staatlicher und privater Politik, Sabrina Zajak
Mikrofinanz: Transnational mobilisierende Narrative und die politische Ökonomie
der Kleinkredite, Philip Mader
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
December 6, 2012
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Mark Blyth
Austerity: The Intellectual History of a Dangerous Idea
Public lecture at the MPIfG
November 22, 2012
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Wolfgang Streeck
Regiert der Markt den Staat? Die Krise und die Handlungsfähigkeit der Demokratie
Panel discussion at the Max Planck Forum (German)
November 5, 2012
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Wolfgang Streeck
Kerneuropa: Spaltung der EU oder Chance zur Integration?
Lecture at the Annual Meeting at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (German)
September 11, 2012
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Hans-Christoph Binswanger
Vorwärts zur Mäßigung: Perspektiven einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsweise
Public lecture at the MPIfG (German)
July 5, 2012
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Wolfgang Streeck
Liberal Democracy in Hard Times: Transitions, Dilemmas, and Innovations
Lecture at the Symposium in Honour of Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance
March 22, 2012
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How the Reification of Merit Breeds Inequality: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Public Lecture
June 5, 2019
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Bruce Carruthers
Do Socially Responsible Corporations Pay Taxes?
Public Lecture
May 8, 2019
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Brian Burgoon
Towards a Fuller Political Economy of Radical Right and Left Nationalist Populism
Public Lecture
April 30, 2019
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Bruno Amable
From Mitterrand to Macron: On the Collapse of the French Party System
Public Lecture
January 16, 2019
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2018
Cathie Jo Martin
Imagine All the People: Literature, Society, and Cross-National Variation in Education Systems
Public Lecture
December 4, 2018
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Norbert Walter-Borjans
Steuerflucht – „Sünde“ oder Betrug zulasten aller?
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 16, 2018
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Lisa Suckert
Taking Back Control? Die Brexit-Kampagne zwischen globalem Freihandel und ökonomischem Nationalismus
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 15, 2018
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Armin Schäfer
Der Wandel des Parteiensystem und die Krise der Sozialdemokratie
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 15, 2018
Play
Katja Langenbucher
The Promise of Measurability - a "Nightmare or a Noble Dream"?
Public Lecture
November 7, 2018
Play Download audio podcast
Book presentation
Uncertain Futures
Panel discussion jointly organized by the MPIfG and the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
November 1, 2018
Play
Panel discussion
Ein soziales Europa - Vision oder Illusion?
Public panel discussion (in German) jointly organized by the MPIfG and the Cologne Central Library on the occasion of Max Planck Day
September 14, 2018
Play Download audio podcast
Jörn Leonhard
Die Offenheit des historischen Augenblicks: 1919 und die Neuordnung der Welt
Public lecture (in German)
July 5, 2018
Play Download audio podcast
Akos Rona-Tas
Predicting Individual Behavior
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2018
June 19, 2018
Play Download audio podcast
Akos Rona-Tas
Predicting the Social World in the Aggregate
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2018
June 12, 2018
Play Download audio podcast
Akos Rona-Tas
The Problem of Seeing the Future: Some Lessons from Predicting the Natural World
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2018
June 5, 2018
Play Download audio podcast
Patrik Aspers
Reducing Uncertainty
Public lecture
May 30, 2018
Play Download audio podcast
Conference
The Dynamics of Capitalism: Inquiries to Marx on the Occasion of His 200th Birthday
Conference jointly organized by the MPIfG and the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Play
Waltraud Schelkle
The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity:
Understanding the Euro Experiment
Public lecture
January 25, 2018
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2017
Joachim Radkau
Gedanken zur Zukunft der Zukunftsgeschichte
Public lecture (German)
December 7, 2017
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Christina Schildmann
Die Arbeit der Zukunft und die Frage der Flexibilität
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 17, 2017
Play
Lucio Baccaro
Capitalism Unhinged: Liberalization, Growth Models, and Secular Stagnation
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 16, 2017
Play
Jürgen Beyer
Multipler Wettbewerb: Zur politischen Ökonomie der Plattformwirtschaft
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 16, 2017
Play
Fritz W. Scharpf interviewed by Adalbert Hepp and Susanne K. Schmidt
"Auf der Suche nach der Problemlösungsfähigkeit der Politik" [The search for problem-solving ability in politics] (German)
Book presentation at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 16, 2017
Play
Jan-Werner Mueller
What, If Anything, Is "Illiberal Democracy"?
Public lecture
October 26, 2017
(maxNet only)
Play
Mary O'Sullivan
Dividends of Development: Securities Markets in the History of US Capitalism,
1866-1922
Public lecture
October 12, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Alexander Nützenadel
Staatsschuldenkrise und Finanzialisierung in Südeuropa
Public lecture (German)
July 20, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre
Enrichment Economy and Profit
Public lecture
June 1, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Fritz W. Scharpf
Europa im Nord-Süd-Konflikt: Muss die Währungsunion
um jeden Preis erhalten bleiben?
Max Planck Lecture (German)
May 30, 2017
Play
Tim Bartley
Transnational Corporations and Global Governance
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2017
May 30, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Ivan Ermakoff
On the Frontiers of Rational Choice
Public lecture
May 17, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Tim Bartley
Rethinking Transnational Governance: Private Rules, Public Law,
and Possibilities for Reform
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2017
May 16, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Tim Bartley
Beyond Empty Spaces: Structure and Substance
in the Implementation of Global Norms
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2017
May 9, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Rainer Diaz-Bone
Die "Économie des conventions": Beiträge und Trends der neuen
französischen Wirtschaftssoziologie
Public lecture (German)
February 16, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Isabelle Ferreras
Firms as Political Entities: Diagnosis and Prospects
Public lecture
January 26, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
Colin Hay
Brexistential Crisis? Making Sense of British Politics after Brexit
Public lecture
January 19, 2017
Play Download audio podcast
2016
Christoph Möllers
Soziale Normen jenseits sozialer Differenzierung
Public lecture (German)
December 8, 2016
Play Download audio podcast
Norbert Kluge, Erika Mezger, Wolfgang Schroeder, Rainer Zugehör
Brauchen wir noch Mitbestimmung?
Panel discussion at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
Moderator: Verena Gonsch
November 18, 2016
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Werner Eichhorst
Müssen wir vor der Zukunft der Arbeit Angst haben?
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 18, 2016
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Ulrich Dolata
Märkte und Macht der Internetkonzerne
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 18, 2016
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Torsten Kathke
Zukunftserwartungen im Rückblick
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 17, 2016
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Jens Beckert
Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 17, 2016
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Colin Crouch
Democracy in a Dangerous and Troubled World
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium
November 17, 2016
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Michael Storper
The Rise and Decline of Urban Economies: Los Angeles and San Francisco since 1970
Public lecture at the MPIfG
November 7, 2016
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Till van Treeck
Hat die Eurozone ein Deutschland-Problem?
Public lecture at the MPIfG as part of the lecture series "One Crisis - Nineteen Points of View: The Division of the Euro Area from Its Members' Perspective" (German)
July 12, 2016
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Francesco Saraceno
France and the Euro Crisis: A Tale of Two Narratives?
Public lecture at the MPIfG as part of the lecture series "One Crisis - Nineteen Points of View: The Division of the Euro Area from Its Members' Perspective"
July 5, 2016
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Maurizio Ferrera
From Bad to Good Pupil? Italy's Journey (and Voice) through the Euro Crisis
Public lecture at the MPIfG as part of the lecture series "One Crisis - Nineteen Points of View: The Division of the Euro Area from Its Members' Perspective"
May 24, 2016
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Costas Lapavitsas
The Greek Disaster and the Future of the EMU
Public lecture at the MPIfG as part of the lecture series "One Crisis - Nineteen Points of View: The Division of the Euro Area from Its Members' Perspective"
May 10, 2016
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Richard Bronk
Uncertainty and the Dangers of Monocultures in Regulation, Analysis and Practice
Public lecture at the MPIfG
February 10, 2016
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Arthur Alderson
Inequality, Status, and Subjective Well-Being
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 27, 2016
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Neil Fligstein
Why the Federal Reserve Failed to See the Financial Crisis of 2008: The Role of "Macroeconomics" as Sense-Making and Cultural Frame
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 26, 2016
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Shamus Khan
From Cultural Purity to Segregated Inclusion: Subscribers to the
New York Philharmonic in the Gilded Age
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 12, 2016
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2015
John Christensen
The National Competitiveness Revolution and the Race to Below the Bottom
Public lecture at the MPIfG
December 8, 2015
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Birgit Helten-Kindlein, Katharina Heuer, Stefan Pfeifer
Familie und Beruf: "Kolonialisierung der Lebenswelt?"
Panel discussion at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
Moderator: Werner Eichhorst
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Hans-Peter Klös
Arbeitswelt - Fachkräfte - Politik: Fachkräftesicherung und Demografie
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 6, 2015
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Marius Busemeyer
Arbeitswelt - Fachkräfte - Politik: Fachkräfte und Berufsbildung
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 6, 2015
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Annina T. Hering, Wolfgang Streeck, Sara Weckemann
Wachsende Wirtschaft, schrumpfende Familien?
Introduction, Wolfgang Streeck
Unsicherheiten und ihre Folgen für das Geburtenverhalten, Annina T. Hering
Viele Kinder, keine Arbeit: Mütter an der Armutsgrenze, Sara Weckemann
Public lectures at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 5, 2015
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Florian Coulmas
Japans Alterung: ein katastrophaler Erfolg?
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 5, 2015
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Lucio Baccaro
Tying Your Hands … and Getting Stuck: The Italian Political Economy under the "External Constraint" Regime
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015-2016
October 21, 2015
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Klaus Weber
Translation in Action
Public lecture at the MPIfG
October 20, 2015
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Lucio Baccaro
Weakening Institutions, Hardening Growth Model: The Liberalization of the German Political Economy
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015-2016
October 14, 2015
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Lucio Baccaro
Rethinking Comparative Political Economy: Growth Models and Distributive Dynamics
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015-2016
October 7, 2015
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Wolfgang Streeck
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
Panel discussion, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
Annual Conference 2015, London
Panelists:
Craig Calhoun (London School of Economics)
Amitai Etzioni (George Washington University)
Wolfgang Streeck (MPIfG)
Polly Toynbee (The Guardian)
July 9, 2015
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Lutz Raphael
Eine Problemgeschichte der Gegenwart schreiben: Beobachtungen im Niemandsland zwischen Politischer Ökonomie, Zeitgeschichte und Soziologie
Public lecture at the MPIfG (German)
July 9, 2015
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David Brady
Path Dependency and the Politics of Socialized Medicine
Public lecture at the MPIfG
June 18, 2015
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Balazs Vedres
Escaping Network Gravity: Relational Structures for Generating Novelty
Public lecture at the MPIfG
June 3, 2015
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Isabela Mares
From Open Secrets to Secret Ballots: The Adoption of Political Reforms
Protecting Electoral Autonomy
Public lecture at the MPIfG
May 21, 2015
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David Rueda
Redistribution Preferences, Altruism and Group Heterogeneity in Industrialized Democracies
Public lecture at the MPIfG
April 30, 2015
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Robert Boyer
Why Has Leading Macroeconomic Thinking Become Irrelevant? Macroeconomics
as a Profession
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015
April 29, 2015
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Robert Boyer
An Analytical History of Macroeconomic Theory since John Maynard Keynes
(General Theory, 1936)
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015
April 22, 2015
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Wolfgang Streeck
Warum der Euro Europa spaltet statt es zu einen
WZB Distinguished Lecture in Social Sciences, Berlin Social Science Center (German)
April 21, 2015
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Robert Boyer
Success and Crisis of European Integration: The Role of Economic Theory and
Expert Representations
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2015
April 15, 2015
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Fred Block
Innovation and the Contested Transformation of the US Political Economy
Public lecture at the MPIfG
March 26, 2015
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Fabian Muniesa
Setting the Habit of Capitalization
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 29, 2015
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2014
Jens Beckert
Imaginierte Zukünfte: Fiktionale Erwartungen und kapitalistische Dynamik
Lecture at the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (German)
December 12, 2014
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Moritz Schularick
Financialization: Questions for Economic History
Public lecture at the MPIfG
December 4, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Book Panel at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in
Market Societies (MaxPo)
November 20, 2014
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Kathleen Thelen
Capitalism in Time
Laudatio in honor of Wolfgang Streeck upon his retirement in October 2014
October 31, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Gesellschaftssteuerung heute
Valedictory lecture upon Wolfgang Streeck's retirement in October 2014 (German)
October 30, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Public lecture at the London School of Economics
October 20, 2014
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Stefan Svallfors
Politics as Organized Combat: New Players and New Rules of the Game in Sweden
Public lecture at the MPIfG
October 16, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Capitalism Studies: Wolfgang Streeck
Julia Ott, Associate Professor of History, The New School for Liberal Arts,
discusses with Wolfgang Streeck
October 9, 2014
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Simone Polillo
Theorizing Efficient Markets
Public lecture at the MPIfG
June 26, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution and the
Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Public lecture at the Institutet för Framtidsstudier Stockholm
June 3, 2014
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Nigel Dodd
Vires in Numeris: Taking Simmel to MtGox
Public lecture at the MPIfG
May 22, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Has Capitalism Seen Its Day?
Public lecture at the Havens Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 20, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Book talk at Columbia University, New York
Panelists:
Adam Tooze, Professor of History, Yale University
Katharina Pistor, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Bruce Kogut, Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School
Josh Whitford, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
April 3, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
This Time Is Serious: Captialism on the Brink
Public lecture at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
March 27, 2014
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Francesco Boldizzoni
Can Welfare Survive? Capitalism, Socialism, and the Post-Industrial Order
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2014
February 12, 2014
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Francesco Boldizzoni
Reframing Justice in the Age of Revolution
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2014
February 5, 2014
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Jenny Andersson
Prediction as a Source of Social Power:
The History of Forecasting from the RAND Corporation to the Financial Crisis
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 30, 2014
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Francesco Boldizzoni
The Early Modern Origins of Modern Welfare Systems
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2014
January 29, 2014
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Wolfgang Streeck
Has Capitalism Seen its Day?
Public lecture at the British Academy
January 25, 2014
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2013
Mitchell Stevens
Education without States
Public lecture at the MPIfG
December 12, 2013
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Thomas Piketty
Capital in the Twenty-first Century
Public lecture at the MPIfG
December 5, 2013
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Stephan Leibfried
Krise des Staates oder Krise der Staatsforschung?
Von der Zerfaserung des Staates und seiner Wissenschaft
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 8, 2013
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Hanspeter Kriesi
Die politischen Folgen der Finanzkrise in Europa:
Wahlergebnisse und Bürgerproteste
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
November 7, 2013
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Renate Mayntz
Markt oder Staat? Kooperationsprobleme in der Europäischen Union
Public lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (German)
November 6, 2013
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Martin H. Geyer
Welche Krise? Spekulation, Korruption und Staat in den wirtschaftspolitischen Auseinandersetzungen in der Zeit der Großen Depression
Public lecture at the MPIfG (German)
July 11, 2013
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Lucio Baccaro and Chiara Benassi
The Evolution of German Industrial Relations: Softening Institutions,
Hardening Growth Model
Public lecture at the MPIfG
June 6, 2013
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Wolfgang Streeck
Die vertagte Krise – oder Demokratie und Kapitalismus als Hase und Igel
Wolfgang Streeck discusses with Carolin Emcke (German)
May 26, 2013
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Christine Musselin
Market and Pricing in Higher Education
Public lecture at the MPIfG
May 16, 2013
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Terence C. Halliday
Global Legislators: Producing Commercial Laws for Global Markets
Public lecture at the MPIfG
May 2, 2013
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Patrick Le Galès
Governing the Large Metropolis: What Is Governed and Not Governed?
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013
April 2, 2013
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Patrick Le Galès
Governing by Instruments? Comparing Two Policies, Three Countries
and the European Union over Thirty Years
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013
March 26, 2013
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Patrick Le Galès
Globalizing European Urban Bourgeoisie? Transnationalization and
Rootedness of Managers in Four European Cities
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013
March 19, 2013
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Wolfgang Streeck
The Crisis of the European State System
Public lecture at the German Center for Research and Innovation New York
February 28, 2013
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Francesco Boldizzoni
On History and Policy: Time in the Age of Neoliberalism
Public lecture at the MPIfG
January 24, 2013
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Gert Pickel
Religiosität als Marktfolge und Vermarktlichung des Religiösen?
Public lecture at the MPIfG (German)
January 10, 2013
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2012
Carsten Burhop, Rainer Hank, Peter Spahn, Paul Windolf
Panel discussion
Geld und Schuld im Kapitalismus
Moderation: Christoph Deutschmann
Panel discussion at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
December 7, 2012
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Daniel Seikel, Wolfgang Streeck, Benjamin Werner
Landesbanken und Volkswagengesetz: Zwei Fallbeispiele
zur Wucht der europäischen "Integration durch Recht"
Introduction, Wolfgang Streeck
Die Liberalisierung von Landesbanken und Sparkassen in Deutschland, Daniel Seikel
Der Niedergang der Goldenen Aktien: Wie der Europäische Gerichtshof die Unternehmenskontrolle liberalisiert, Benjamin Werner
Public lectures at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
December 7, 2012
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Bodo Hombach
Was erwartet die Politik von der Wissenschaft und was nicht?
Opening lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
December 6, 2012
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Philip Mader, Sigrid Quack, Sabrina Zajak
Arbeitsstandards und Mikrofinanz:
Institutionenbildung durch transnationale Mobilisierung
Introduction, Sigrid Quack
Im Schatten des Drachens: Transnationaler Arbeitsrechtsaktivismus zwischen
staatlicher und privater Politik, Sabrina Zajak
Mikrofinanz: Transnational mobilisierende Narrative und die politische Ökonomie
der Kleinkredite, Philip Mader
Public lecture at the MPIfG Annual Colloquium (German)
December 6, 2012
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Mark Blyth
Austerity: The Intellectual History of a Dangerous Idea
Public lecture at the MPIfG
November 22, 2012
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Wolfgang Streeck
Regiert der Markt den Staat? Die Krise und die Handlungsfähigkeit der Demokratie
Panel discussion at the Max Planck Forum (German)
November 5, 2012
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Wolfgang Streeck
Kerneuropa: Spaltung der EU oder Chance zur Integration?
Lecture at the Annual Meeting at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (German)
September 11, 2012
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Hans-Christoph Binswanger
Vorwärts zur Mäßigung: Perspektiven einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsweise
Public lecture at the MPIfG (German)
July 5, 2012
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Wolfgang Streeck
Liberal Democracy in Hard Times: Transitions, Dilemmas, and Innovations
Lecture at the Symposium in Honour of Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance
March 22, 2012
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