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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
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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
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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]

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
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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
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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]

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
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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]

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
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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
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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]

States, Markets, and Foreign Aid

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 05.07.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragende: Simone Dietrich
  • University of Geneva
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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]
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