In the new issue of economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, development experts and economic sociologists join editor Mariana Heredia to explore development in the 21st century across Latin America and beyond. From discussions of competing notions of development to development in the context of antitrust and competition policy, finance, informality, and productive planning, each contributor to the new issue revisits the topic from their own perspective.

The Journalist in Residence Fellowship of the MPIfG is open to staff or freelance journalists who have several years of professional experience, regularly cover academic or political, social, or economic topics, and wish to work on a research project of their own in dialogue with the Institute’s researchers. The fellowship is advertised once a year. The deadline for applications for stays in the academic year 2024/25 is April 30, 2024.

Decarbonization requires the winding-down of – economically – fully viable, if not highly prosperous, lines of economic activity. Timur Ergen und Luuk Schmitz show by investigating the least-likely case of the European Union that this problem has created a space for state actors to experiment with vertical industrial policies to manage the reallocation of resources from polluting to non-polluting activities.