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Understanding the Trap: Unbroken Promises, Neoliberal Resilience, and Social Fatigue in Market Societies

Conference
  • Beginn: 19.04.2023
  • Ende: 21.04.2023
Kick-off Workshop of the Max Planck Partner Group for the Study of the Economy and the Public in Chile.

Political Opposition to Foreign Home Ownership

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
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 and coordinated by Arianna Tassinari, Björn Bremer, and Lucio Baccaro. [mehr]

The Specter of Inflation: Price Stability in Times of Transitions

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 26.04.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragende: Isabella M. Weber
  • University of Massachusetts Amhurst
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Isabella Weber will lay out how her China research has led her to an analysis of today’s inflation that considers the systemic significance of certain prices for overall economic stability. [mehr]

Good and Ideal Democracy: How to Design It

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 03.05.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragender: André Bächtiger
  • Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
The talk is related to the project “Designing Democracy on Mars and Earth” (DDME), which sets up a bottom-up design to obtain a deeper understanding of citizens’ democratic preferences in two Western countries, Germany and the United States, and one non-Western country, India. [mehr]

Family Capital(ism) in the Twenty-First Century

Conference
  • Beginn: 16.05.2023
  • Ende: 17.05.2023
Revisiting the concept of family capitalism, this conference intends to discuss and connect recent research on family capital in the twenty-first century. Its goal is to reflect upon and assess the structures and cultures families use to achieve an influential position in contemporary capitalist societies. [mehr]

Social Reproduction and Growth Models: A Missing Link

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
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 and coordinated by Arianna Tassinari, Björn Bremer, and Lucio Baccaro. [mehr]

Digital Payments: New Relations in Embedded Finance

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 24.05.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:30
  • Vortragende: Sophie Mützel
  • University of Lucerne, Department of Sociology
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
For decades, retailers, marketing agencies, and payment providers have been trying to improve their only partial view of customers in physical stores. Mützel suggests that payment apps used at in-store checkouts are fast becoming central devices for gaining insights on offline consumer preferences and behavior similar to those available online. [mehr]

The Privatization of Ambition in China: A History

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 31.05.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragender: Biao Xiang
  • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
How has individual ambition driven China’s remarkable growth over the last forty years, and subsequently become a source of the widespread feeling of powerlessness, especially among the youth? To address this question, Xiang provides a history of ambition in China with a focus on its “privatization.” [mehr]

The Politics of Central Banking

  • Beginn: 01.06.2023
  • Ende: 02.06.2023
  • Ort: Cologne
Since the global financial crisis, monetary policies have increasingly become re-politicized in advanced economies. The increasing use of unconventional monetary policies had major distributive consequences, which dragged central banks into the realm of noisy politics. This workshop will bring together scholars in political economy and related disciplines to discuss where the politics of central banking is headed. [mehr]

Money(s) and Empire: The US Dollar as Global Quasi-State Money

Scholar in Residence Lecture
  • Datum: 06.06.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragender: Herman Mark Schwartz
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
The dollar sits at the top of the global monetary hierarchy, operating as the core currency for a global economic empire centered on the US economy. Herman Mark Schwartz argues that this central role generates six contradictions or antinomies that threaten this central pillar of US global power. This is the first of three lectures in the series "Triffin Reloaded: The Matrix of Contradictions around the Dollar’s Global Dominance" by the MPIfG's this year's Scholar in Residence. [mehr]

Explaining Differences in Free Riding Beliefs: A Theory and Preliminary Evidence

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
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 and coordinated by Arianna Tassinari, Björn Bremer, and Lucio Baccaro. [mehr]
Die Tagung nimmt die einhergehende Radikalisierung von Unsicherheit zum Anlass zu fragen, welchen Beitrag wir zum Verständnis und zur Bewältigung dieses „Zeitalters der Krisen“ leisten können. Sie möchte sowohl die Potentiale als auch die Grenzen wirtschaftssoziologischer Zugänge zu Krisen und Kriegen ausloten und Anstöße geben, in welche Richtung sich wirtschaftssoziologische Forschung fruchtbar erweitern lässt. Sie lädt dazu ein, Gemeinsamkeiten, Unterschiede und Wechselwirkungen zwischen Krieg und Krise aus wirtschaftssoziologischer Perspektive zu reflektieren. [mehr]

Contradictions and Dynamics of Global Quasi-State Money: Triffin Reloaded

Scholar in Residence Lecture
  • Datum: 20.06.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragender: Herman Mark Schwartz
  • University of Virginia
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
The dollar sits at the top of the global monetary hierarchy, operating as the core currency for a global economic empire centered on the US economy. Herman Mark Schwartz argues that this central role generates six contradictions or antinomies that threaten this central pillar of US global power.This is the second of three lectures in the series "Triffin Reloaded: The Matrix of Contradictions around the Dollar’s Global Dominance" by the MPIfG's this year's Scholar in Residence. [mehr]

The Dollar and Its (Lack of) Rivals: A Balance Sheet of Imperial Monetary Power

Scholar in Residence Lecture
  • Datum: 04.07.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragender: Herman Mark Schwartz
  • University of Virginia
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
The dollar sits at the top of the global monetary hierarchy, operating as the core currency for a global economic empire centered on the US economy. Herman Mark Schwartz argues that this central role generates six contradictions or antinomies that threaten this central pillar of US global power.This is the third and last of three lectures in the series "Triffin Reloaded: The Matrix of Contradictions around the Dollar’s Global Dominance" by the MPIfG's this year's Scholar in Residence. [mehr]

A Constructivist Institutionalist Approach to European Capitalist Restructuring: ECB Ideas on Fiscal Policy and Structural Reforms

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
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 and coordinated by Arianna Tassinari, Björn Bremer, and Lucio Baccaro. [mehr]

States, Markets, and Foreign Aid

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 05.07.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragende: Simone Dietrich
  • University of Geneva
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient governments, while others bypass such local authorities? Simone Dietrich will argue that the bureaucratic institutions of donor countries shape donor–recipient interactions differently despite similar international and recipient country conditions. [mehr]

Closing Workshop of the Max Planck Partner Group for the Sociology of Economic Life

Workshop
  • Datum: 05.09.2023

Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

  • Beginn: 11.09.2023
  • Ende: 14.09.2023
  • Ort: Cologne
The Summer School will address the continued underrepresentation of women in the field of Comparative and International Political Economy. It is intended to be an inclusive event and explicitly welcomes women, non-binary people, and all people of marginalized genders. [mehr]
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