Past Events

 
2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010
 

 

2013

 
Thursday, May 23, 2013 to Friday, May 24, 2013
Die neue Wirklichkeit: Bezeichnungsrevolutionen, Bedeutungsverschiebungen und Politik seit den 1970er Jahren

Ariane Leendertz, Wolfgang Streeck
Conference

 
Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 17:00
Markets and Pricing in Higher Education

Christine Musselin, Centre de sociologie des organisations, Sciences Po 
Public Lecture
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Thursday, May 02, 2013 | 17:00
Global Legislators: Producing Commercial Laws for Global Markets

Terence C. Halliday, American Bar Foundation 
Public Lecture
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Thursday, April 18, 2013 to Friday, April 19, 2013
Research Frontiers in Political Economy

Jens Beckert, Wolfgang Streeck
Conference

 
Tuesday, April 02, 2013 | 17:00
Governing the Large Metropolis: What is Governed and Not Governed?

Patrick Le Galès, Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po 
Public Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013

 
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | 17:00
Governing by Instruments? Comparing Two Policies, Three Countries and the European Union over Thirty Years

Patrick Le Galès, Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po 
Public Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013

 
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | 17:00
Globalizing European Urban Bourgeoisie? Transnationalization and Rootedness of Managers in Four European Cities

Patrick Le Galès, Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po 
Public Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2013

 
Thursday, January 31, 2013 | 17:00
Deutschland in der Reproduktionskrise

Kerstin Jürgens, Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften 
Public Lecture
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 | 17:00
On History and Policy: Time in the Age of Neoliberalism

Francesco Boldizzoni, Università degli Studi di Torino 
Public Lecture
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 | 13:30
Trajectories of Transnational Governance

Sigrid Quack
Institute Seminar

 
Thursday, January 10, 2013 | 17:00
Religiosität als Marktfolge und Vermarktlichung des Religiösen?

Gert Pickel, Universität Leipzig, Theologische Fakultät 
Public Lecture
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2012

 
Thursday, December 20, 2012 | 13:30
Die Euro-Krise aus Sicht der Europaforschung am MPIfG
fällt aus - cancelled
Martin Höpner, Fritz W. Scharpf, Wolfgang Streeck
Institute Seminar

 
Thursday, December 06, 2012 bis Friday, December 07, 2012
Ökonomie ohne Grenzen?
Institutstag 2012 mit Jahrestreffen des Vereins der Freunde und Ehemaligen des MPIfG

Lecture
Programm und Anmeldung

 
Tuesday, December 04, 2012 | 14:00
Transnational Governance and the Global Land Grab

Matias Margulis
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, November 22, 2012 | 17:00
Austerity: The Intellectual History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth, Brown University, Department of Political Science 
Lecture
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 | 14:00
Bureaucracy Writ Global: Lessons in Institution Building from the League of Nations

Carolyn Biltoft
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, September 27, 2012 | 13:30
Coping with Disaster: Trust and Subjective Well-being in Japan after 3/11

Carola Hommerich, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, Tokio 
Forschungsseminar

 
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 | 10:30
Finanzkrise - Schuldenkrise - Demokratiekrise: Der Anfang vom Ende der Demokratie?
Gemeinsame Konferenz mit dem Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft

Conference
Website Forschungsgruppe Markt und Staat

 
Thursday, September 13, 2012 bis Friday, September 14, 2012
Microfoundations of Diffusion Research: Actors, Mechanisms, Institutions

Mark Lutter
Conference
Conference site

 
Thursday, July 12, 2012 | 01:30
The Market for Counterfeit Consumer Goods

Frank Wehinger
Institute Seminar

 
Thursday, July 05, 2012 | 17:00
Vorwärts zur Mäßigung: Perspektiven einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsweise

Hans-Christoph Binswanger, Universität St. Gallen 
Lecture
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Thursday, June 21, 2012 | 01:30
The Art and Science of Predicting the Future: Credit Rating, College Admission and Parole Decision

Akos Rona-Tas
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, June 14, 2012 | 01:30
The Political Economy of Corporate Responsibility in Democratic Capitalism

Daniel Kinderman
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, May 31, 2012 | 17:00
Technocratic Elites, Expert Knowledges and Financialization

Julie Froud, University of Manchester 
Lecture
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 | 17:00
How (and Why) Is this Different? The Politics of Economic Crisis in Western Europe and the United States

Jonas Pontusson, University of Geneva 
Lecture
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 | 01:30
Campaigning for Clean Clothes: How Social Movements Shape Markets

Philip Balsiger
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, May 03, 2012 | 17:00
Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of "Nature" in France and America

Marion Fourcade, University of California, Berkeley 
Lecture
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 | 17:00
Politics and Business in Contemporary Turkey

Ayse Bugra, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History 
Lecture
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 | 01:30
Kapitalistische Entwicklung in China
Entstehungskontexte, Verlaufsformen und Paradoxien eines eigentümlichen Modernisierungsprozesses
Tobias ten Brink
Institute Seminar

 
Thursday, April 12, 2012 bis Friday, April 13, 2012
Causes and Consequences of Economic Disintegration
Evidence from the Twentieth Century
Carsten Burhop (Universität zu Köln), Wolfgang Streeck
Conference

 
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | 17:00
Paradoxe Internationalisierung von Märkten, Strategien und Regulierung
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2012
Arndt Sorge
Lecture
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 | 01:30
Governing a Parallel Financial Market
The Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions at the Regulatory Event Horizon
Todd Arthur Bridges
Forschungsseminar

 
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 | 17:00
Internationalisierung, Geschäftsmodelle und gesellschaftlicher Effekt: Die Deutsche Lufthansa im Vergleich
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2012
Arndt Sorge
Lecture
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Monday, April 02, 2012 | 13:30
Joint Seminar with the MPI for Researach on Collective Goods


Workshop

 
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | 17:00
Internationalisierung, Spielarten des Kapitalismus und technische Innovation
Entwicklung, Herstellung und Instandhaltung von Strahltriebwerken weltweit und in Deutschland Scholar in Residence Lectures 2012
Arndt Sorge
Lecture
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Thursday, February 23, 2012 bis Friday, February 24, 2012
Toward an Economic Sociology of Illegal Markets

Jens Beckert, Frank Wehinger
Workshop
Website

 
Thursday, February 09, 2012 | 13:30
Where Do Preferences Come From? The Case of Employers’ Social Policy Preferences

Thomas Paster
Institute Seminar

 
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 | 17:00
Construction and Use of the Future in Financial Markets

Elena Esposito, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia 
Lecture
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Thursday, February 02, 2012 | 13:30
"Das wird man wohl noch sagen dürfen"
Oder: Was hat Thilo Sarrazin eigentlich mit dem Sturm und Drang zu tun?
Carolin Lange
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, January 26, 2012 | 17:00
Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics
Politics and Law beyond the Nation State | Lecture series in the winter term 2011-12
Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute 
Lecture
Website

 
Thursday, January 19, 2012 | 13:30
Data the New Oil? Some Recent Developments in Information and Visualization

Lothar Krempel
Institute Seminar

 
Thursday, January 19, 2012 bis Saturday, January 21, 2012
Potential Uses and Abuses of Evolutionary Theory in the Study of Institutional Change

Wolfgang Streeck, Helen Callaghan
Workshop
Website

 
Thursday, January 12, 2012 | 17:00
The Political Economy of the Euro Crisis
Politics and Law beyond the Nation State | Lecture series in the winter term 2011-12
Erik Jones, Johns Hopkins University 
Lecture
Website

 

 

 

2011

 
Thursday, December 15, 2011 bis Friday, December 16, 2011
Coping with Instability in Market Societies
Max Planck Sciences Po Conference
Sciences Po and MPIfG, Host: Sciences Po Paris
Conference
Website

 
Thursday, December 08, 2011 | 17:00
Internationale politische Autorität und Legitimation
Politik und Recht jenseits des Nationalstaats | Vortragsreihe im Wintersemester 2011-12
Michael Zürn, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung 
Lecture
Website

 
Thursday, December 08, 2011 | 13:30
European Integration and the Politics of Neo-Corporatist Concertation

Alexandre Afonso
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, December 01, 2011 | 13:30
Do Movements Matter to Market Formation?

Simone Schiller-Merkens
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, November 24, 2011 | 17:00
From Migration in Geographic Space to Migration in Biographic Time

Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin 
Lecture


 
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Wie Weltbilder die Wirtschaft prägen
Zum Einfluss von kulturellen Prägungen auf wirtschaftliche Prozesse
MPIfG und Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln
Conference

 
Thursday, November 17, 2011 bis Friday, November 18, 2011
Coping with Instability - Umgang mit Instabilität und Unsicherheit
Institutstag

Lecture
Programm und Anmeldeformular

 
Thursday, November 10, 2011 | 17:00
VORTRAG ABGESAGT
Die drei Dimensionen sozialer Sicherung und der Aufstieg des europäischen Antidiskriminierungsrechts
Alexander Somek, University of Iowa 
Lecture
Website

 
Thursday, October 13, 2011 | 13:30
The Boom, the Bust, and the Mediating State: Housing Bail-Outs and the Discourse of Fairness in the Wake of Financial Crisis in Kazakhstan

Alima Bissenova
Inhouse Lecture

 
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 | 19:00
Wie exklusiv ist die Demokratie? Wahlrecht und Wählerverhalten auf dem Prüfstand
Max-Planck-Forum Berlin 2011
Armin Schäfer u.a.
Lecture

 
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 bis Saturday, July 16, 2011
Bringing Organizations Back In
Bridging Economic Sociology and Political Economy

Conference
Sixth Max Planck Summer Conference on Economy and Society

 
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Politikberatung, aber wie?
Vom Nutzen der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften für die Politik
MPIfG und Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln
Conference

 
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 | 17:00
Comparative Perspectives on Corporate Governance

Nicholas Ziegler
Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2011

 
Thursday, June 30, 2011 | 17:00
Toleranz und Integration: Lehren aus der Vergangenheit für die Gegenwart

Rainer Forst, Universität Frankfurt 
Lecture


 
Sunday, June 19, 2011 bis Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Risk and Uncertainty in the Economy
Historical, Sociological, and Anthropological Perspectives

Conference
Villa Vigoni Conference 2011

 
Thursday, June 16, 2011 | 13:30
Contested Capacity: Market Disruptions, Consumer-Labor Coalitions, and Health Care Reform in the United States

Margaret Weir
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, June 16, 2011 | 13:30
Contested Capacity
Market Disruptions, Consumer-Labor Coalitions, and Health Care Reform in the United States
Margaret Weir
Forschungsseminar

 
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 | 13:30
Can Compulsory Voting Be Justified?

Armin Schäfer
Institute Seminar

 
Thursday, May 26, 2011 | 17:00
Which Theories Do Markets Perform? Market Response to Shareholder Value Innovations

Frank Dobbin, Harvard University, Department of Sociology 
Lecture


 
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | 17:00
Pension Reform in Germany

Nicholas Ziegler
Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2011

 
Monday, May 16, 2011 bis Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Constitution of Quality in Markets
Book project

Workshop
Website

 
Thursday, May 12, 2011 | 17:00
Understanding the Reform Trajectory of the Bismarckian Welfare Systems

Bruno Palier, Sciences Po, Centre d'études européenes 
Lecture


 
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | 17:00
Financial Crisis and Regulatory Response in the United State

Nicholas Ziegler
Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2011

 
Thursday, April 28, 2011 | 17:00
Constructing Legitimacy: Science, Markets and Governance in the Global Cotton Trade

Amy Quark
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, April 21, 2011 | 13:30
Die Soziologie des Profits

Sascha Münnich
Institute Seminar

 
Thursday, April 07, 2011 | 13:30
The Failure to Regulate International Finance and the Imbalance of Capitalisms since the 1970s

Thomas Kalinowski
Forschungsseminar

 
Friday, March 25, 2011 bis Saturday, March 26, 2011
Institutional Change in the Regulation of Financial Markets - Part II


Workshop
Website

 
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 bis Saturday, March 26, 2011
Democracy in Straightjackets: Politics in the Age of Permanent Austerity


Conference
Ringberg Conference

 
Thursday, February 24, 2011 bis Friday, February 25, 2011
Wer regiert Europa?
Governance und Politische Ökonomie in der Europäischen Union

Workshop

 
Thursday, February 17, 2011 bis Friday, February 18, 2011
Institutional Change in the Regulation of Financial Markets - Part I


Workshop
Website

 
Thursday, February 10, 2011 | 13:30
Insiders' Institutions, Outsiders' Outcome: Atypical Workers across Europe

Rebecca Oliver
Forschungsseminar

 
Tuesday, February 08, 2011 bis Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Pragmatism and Economic Sociology


Workshop
Website

 
Monday, February 07, 2011 | 17:00
Formal Organization as a Cultural Form in World Society

John W. Meyer, University of Stanford 
Lecture


 
Thursday, February 03, 2011 | 17:00
Die Universalisierung des Künstlerischen: Zur historischen Soziologie der Kreativität
Vortragsreihe "Sozialtheorie"
Andreas Reckwitz, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder 
Lecture


 
Thursday, January 27, 2011 | 13:30
The Global Outsourcing Industry in the Philippines
The Struggle to Build Skill Formation Institutions
May Zuleika Salao
Forschungsseminar

 
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 | 15:00
The New Merchants of Law: Transnational Private Regulation of Labor and the Environment

Tim Bartley, Indiana University, Bloomington 
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, January 20, 2011 | 16:00
Der Fall Hartz IV

Anke Hassel, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin 
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, January 13, 2011 | 17:00
Verwilderungen des sozialen Konflikts: Anerkennungskämpfe zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
Vortragsreihe "Sozialtheorie"
Axel Honneth, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main 
Lecture


 
Thursday, January 06, 2011 | 13:30
Israeli Macroeconomic Policy in Response to the Global Recession
Explaining the Division of Labor between the Central Bank and the Ministry of France
Ronen Mandelkern
Forschungsseminar

 

 

 

2010

 
Thursday, December 16, 2010 | 17:00
Das Wettbewerbsprinzip als Dynamisierungsmotor: Eine beschleunigungstheoretische Zeitdiagnose
Vortragsreihe "Sozialtheorie"
Hartmut Rosa, Universität Jena 
Lecture


 
Thursday, December 09, 2010 | 17:00
Wohlfahrtsgesellschaften als funktionaler Antagonismus von Kapitalismus und Demokratie: Ein immer labilerer Mechanismus?
Vortragsreihe "Sozialtheorie"
Uwe Schimank, Institut für Soziologie, Universität Bremen 
Lecture


 
Thursday, December 09, 2010 | 17:00
Wohlfahrtsgesellschaften als funktionaler Antagonismus von Kapitalismus und Demokratie: Ein immer labilerer Mechanismus?

Uwe Schimank, Institut für Soziologie, Universität Bremen 
Lecture

 
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | 13:30
Institutionalisierte Wissensformen in zeitgenössischen Ökonomien:
Konjunkturforschung und Konjunkturprognosen
Werner Reichmann
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, November 18, 2010 bis Friday, November 19, 2010
Institutstag 2010
Krisen und Werte im 21. Jahrhundert

Conference
Programm

 
Friday, November 12, 2010 bis Wednesday, December 15, 2010
SKRIPTURALE - Von der Hieroglyphe zum Internet
MPIfG Kunstausstellung 2010 von und mit Künstlerinnen der GEDOK Bonn

Kunst und Kultur am MPIfG
Website

 
Thursday, November 11, 2010 | 19:00
Vernissage: MPIfG Kunstausstellung 2010
SKRIPTURALE - Von der Hieroglyphe zum Internet

Kunst und Kultur am MPIfG


 
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | 17:00
Das Zeitalter der Kontingenz
Vortragsreihe "Sozialtheorie"
Hans Joas, Universität Erfurt 
Lecture


 
Thursday, October 07, 2010 | 13:30
The "old" and "new" politics of financial services regulation in the European Union

Lucia Quaglia
Forschungsseminar

 
Friday, October 01, 2010
Sozialwissenschaften in der Öffentlichkeit
Journalist in Residence Fellowship 2005-2010 | Bilanzworkshop

Workshop

 
Thursday, July 29, 2010 | 13:30
Manhattan Murder Mystery? How to Unterstand Financialization and Recent Economic Crisis

Dimitris Sotiropoulos
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, July 22, 2010 | 13:30
Social Interaction as Market Device: Mass Personalization Technology and the Question of Embeddedness in Consumer Banking

Zsuzsanna Vargha
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, July 08, 2010 | 17:00
Refeudalisierung der Ökonomie: Zum Strukturwandel kapitalistischer Wirtschaft

Sighard Neckel, Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien 
Lecture


 
Thursday, July 01, 2010 | 13:30
Where Do New Markets Come From?

Guido Möllering
Institute Seminar

 
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | 13:30
Utilitarianism versus Pragmatism in Institutional Economics

Stefan Kesting
Inhouse Lecture

 
Saturday, June 12, 2010 bis Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Transnational Copyright: Organization, Mobilization, and Law
Fourth Conference on Economic Sociology and Political Economy | Villa Vigoni

Conference
Conference Website

 
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 | 14:00
How to Read and Interpret Regression Results?
Methodenseminar | Methods Seminar
Lothar Krempel, Mark Lutter
Inhouse Lecture

 
Wednesday, June 02, 2010 | 13:30
Does Business Need Social Policy? The Role of Employers in the Formation and Transformation of the Welfare State: The German Case

Thomas Paster
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, May 27, 2010 | 17:00
Wachstum, Wachstum und kein Ende: Abschied von einem Mythos

Meinhard Miegel, Denkwerk Zukunft, Stiftung kulturelle Erneuerung 
Lecture


 
Thursday, May 20, 2010 bis Friday, May 21, 2010
The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Systems

Marius Busemeyer
Conference
Conference Website

 
Monday, May 17, 2010 | 16:30
Probleme und Perspektiven einer gemeinsamen europäischen Krisenüberwindungsstrategie

Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Universität Hamburg
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, May 06, 2010 | 17:00
The Everyday Politics of the Financial Crisis

Leonard Seabrooke, University of Warwick 
Lecture


 
Thursday, April 29, 2010 | 17:00
A Bretton Woods Moment? The Financial Crisis and the Future of the Global Economic Order

Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo, Canada 
Lecture


 
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | 14:00
Computer Assisted Text Analysis
Methodenseminar | Methods Seminar
Lothar Krempel
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, April 22, 2010 | 13:30
Strukturmerkmale des chinesischen Kapitalismus

Tobias ten Brink
Forschungsseminar

 
Thursday, April 15, 2010 | 13:30
"Constructivist Institutionalism": How to Study the Impact of Legal Knowledge on Institutional Change

Britta Rehder
Institute Seminar

 
Monday, March 22, 2010 | 13:30
Politik im Defizit: Austerität als fiskalpolitisches Regime

Daniel Mertens, Wolfgang Streeck
Inhouse Lecture

 
Thursday, March 04, 2010 bis Saturday, March 06, 2010
Working Group on Institutional Change


Workshop
Website

 
Thursday, March 04, 2010 | 13:30
Economic Conventions: Explanations for Conformity and Some Contrasts with Deviation

David Dequech
Forschungsseminar

 
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | 17:30
Innovation and Competitiveness: The Limits of Deregulation Policy

Bruno Amable
Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2010

 
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 17:30
Employment, Unemployment and Structural Reforms

Bruno Amable
Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2010

 
Friday, February 05, 2010
Institutional Change in the Regulation of Financial Markets
First Workshop
Renate Mayntz, Till Kaesbach
Workshop

 
Thursday, February 04, 2010 | 17:00
Zur Transformation des Sozialstaats

Herbert Obinger, Zentrum für Sozialpolitik, Universität Bremen 
Lecture

 
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | 17:30
The Lisbon Agenda: Saving the European Model or Killing It?

Bruno Amable
Lecture
Scholar in Residence Lectures 2010

 
Thursday, January 14, 2010 | 17:00
First Enron: The Death of Ivar Krueger and the Birth of White Collar Crime

Christopher McKenna, Said Business School, University of Oxford 
Lecture

 
Thursday, January 07, 2010 | 13:30
Is Population Aging Causing Pension Retrenchments? An Event History Analysis

Juan Fernandez
Forschungsseminar