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Empty Shell or Rising Star? Dubai as an Offshore Financial Centre in Historical Context

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
  • Datum: 29.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 14:00
  • Vortragende: Andrea Binder
  • Freie Universität Berlin
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. [mehr]
Portrait picture of Hanna Kuusela

“The Undeserving Citizens”: Erosion of Universalism as the Normative Basis of the Welfare State

Scholar in Residence Lecture I
Hanna Kuusela is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2026. During her stay at the Institute, she presents a lecture series entitled "The Redistributive Ethos in Crisis: Three Imaginaries Dismantling the Welfare State." The three lectures will take place on May 5, and May 26, and June 2, 2026. [mehr]
Portrait picture of Hanna Kuusela

“The Good Domestic Owner”: Group Logics and Tribalism as Substitutes for the Critique of Inequality

Scholar in Residence Lecture II
Hanna Kuusela is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2026. During her stay at the Institute, she presents a lecture series entitled "The Redistributive Ethos in Crisis: Three Imaginaries Dismantling the Welfare State." The three lectures will take place on May 5, and May 26, and June 2, 2026. [mehr]
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Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies: Interoperability, Fragmentation and Geofinance

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
  • Datum: 27.05.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 15:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Amy Verdun
  • University of Victoria
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. [mehr]
Portrait photo of Céline Bessière

Gendering Tax Optimization: Insights from Ethnography of Wealthy Families from the Top One Percent Across Continental Europe

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 28.05.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 16:15 - 17:45
  • Vortragende: Céline Bessière
  • Paris-Dauphine University
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Globally, women accumulate less wealth than men. The gender wealth gap is most pronounced at the top of the wealth distribution. In her talk, Céline Bessière discusses how tax strategies are gendered, with consequences for wealth inequality. [mehr]
Portrait picture of Hanna Kuusela

“Family First” – Family Partiality as an Obstacle to More Equal Redistribution

Scholar in Residence Lecture III
Hanna Kuusela is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2026. During her stay at the Institute, she presents a lecture series entitled "The Redistributive Ethos in Crisis: Three Imaginaries Dismantling the Welfare State." The three lectures will take place on May 5, and May 26, and June 2, 2026. [mehr]
Portrait photo of Jonathan Levy

Midas Touch: On the Demand for Money in History

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 10.06.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
  • Vortragender: Jonathan Levy
  • Sciences Po, Paris
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
In his talk, Jonathan Levy introduces the problem of the demand for money in history, and seeks — drawing from Keynes — to clarify demand as a category of analysis across economic but also social, cultural, and political life. [mehr]
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