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Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This lecture explores the relationship between democracy and the expected world to come. [mehr]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [mehr]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [mehr]

A multi-national elite has grown nearly ungovernable, threatening democracy, capitalism, and even the natural environment. The talk will offer a sociological analysis of the agency and mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, drawing on both a long-term ethnography of the offshore system and Big Data network analysis of its characteristics. [mehr]

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 Lucio Baccaro, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [mehr]

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 Lucio Baccaro, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [mehr]

To mark the occasion of the 90th birthday of Fritz W. Scharpf, one of the founding directors of the MPIfG, this symposium will explore questions around the epistemology of the social sciences. [mehr]

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 Lucio Baccaro, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [mehr]

Global economic relations are undergoing their most significant transformation in decades. Sharpened global rivalries, economic sanctions, interventionist industrial policies, and protectionist trade and investment policies are on the rise. Closely interacting with these trends are the green and digital transitions shaking up global value chain geographies. [mehr]

The European Union’s approach to market competition is undergoing significant changes. Originally enshrined in the treaties that built the Single European Market, the EU’s model emphasized neoliberal competition policies. Competition, now being “securitized” in the EU, is reshaped by geopolitical concerns rather than purely economic ones. As the EU was initially established as a peace project, how will the intertwining of market and security logics shape the EU going forward? [mehr]

In light of debates about the “return of the state,” the conference explores the idea that fragmentation has transformed and on the whole weakened public capacities for coherent and consequential responses to the social, economic, ecological, and political problems of our time. [mehr]

We live in a postneoliberal age, or so we often hear. The state again has transformative ambitions, guided by national security, SDG development, or clean industrialization priorities. Yet it faces one critical question: how to pay for transformation? [mehr]

The talk will give an overview of Germany’s transformation to a “world export champion” (Exportweltmeister), a concept that first appeared in 1986. The talk will mark the most important turning points and highlight in particular the institutions and instruments that have been created over more than a century by an elite network of politicians and businesspeople in promotion of the German export drive. [mehr]

The main cause of the climate crisis is the burning of fossil fuels. This talk will turn the question around and aim at identifying the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels, looking in particular at critical junctures in human history. [mehr]

Die Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist essenziell für eine funktionierende Demokratie und in Deutschland im Grundgesetz verankert. Allerdings ist sie auch ein soziales Konzept, das vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlichen Wandels fortlaufend neu politisch und juristisch ausgehandelt wird. Die Idee der Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist daher stets umkämpft – insbesondere in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung. [mehr]

Employing the lens of the life and work of Otto Kahn-Freund, we investigate the invention of labor law as a distinct field of legal doctrine and scholarship. Invention and reinvention are understood here to be ongoing political and scholarly processes, involving the defense of existing institutions and the development of new ones. We consider developments across the twentieth century. [mehr]

An interdisciplinary conference on the diverse temporal dimensions of climate change and their implications for action [mehr]

This workshop seeks to explore how a systematic study of law and courts might broaden our understanding of political economy. We will discuss the promises and limits of law - how law can be grounds for progressive change ensuring protection for labor and consumers, but also how it often falls short in challenging and transforming entrenched systems of power and inequality in the absence of direct action. [mehr]

The conference will explore the dynamics of entrepreneurship within the broader context of social inequality, centering on the pivotal concept of “opportunity hoarding” as proposed by Charles Tilly. We will examine how access to entrepreneurial opportunities is often monopolized by specific groups or networks. [mehr]