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The MPIfG and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) have recently agreed on a new research collaboration between the two institutions. CBS is a government-financed private university and Denmark’s largest provider of education and research in business administration and economics, offering research-based degree programs at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level. more

Daria Tisch and Tamara Gutfleisch (Goethe University Frankfurt) have recently been awarded the 2023 “ASI-Nachwuchspreis.” more

Mathias Greffrath is the MPIfG’s Journalist in Residence in fall 2023. A freelance journalist and sociologist, Greffrath writes for publications including Zeit and taz and for the broadcaster ARD. more

The MPIfG’s Scientific Advisory Board selected a paper by Sinisa Hadziabdic (MPIfG) and Sebastian Kohl (Freie Universität Berlin) as the recipient of the MPIfG Advisory Board Award in November 2023. more

In October of this year the doctoral researchers of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) elected Pauline Kohlhase as their new spokesperson. more

Arianna Tassinari more

Düzgün Arslantaş more

Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, Erik Neimanns more

Lisa Suckert, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, plädiert für eine differenziertere Wahrnehmung der Brexit-Kampagne und der ökonomischen Identität Großbritanniens. Doch auch die EU sei gefragt: Sie müsse sich verändern, um die Bedürfnisse von Austrittsbefürwortern innerhalb der EU besser zu verstehen, gegenzusteuern und den europäischen Zusammenhalt zu stärken. more

Seit jeher versuchen Menschen, die Zukunft vorherzusehen: aus Träumen, aus den Sternen oder mithilfe von Karten und Würfeln. Heute scheinen die Bedingungen für verlässliche Vorhersagen dank großer Datenbanken und computergestützter Auswertung besser denn je. Akos Rona-Tas warnt jedoch vor zu viel Vertrauen in die neuen Prognosetechniken. Der Soziologieprofessor an der University of California San Diego, der im Sommersemester 2018 Scholar in Residence am Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Köln war, befasst sich mit den Schattenseiten moderner Wahrsagung. more

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There is broad consensus about the need for an effective climate policy. Based on a series of survey experiments across the EU and in Germany, Laura Seelkopf discusses the drivers of support for (or opposition to) climate taxation. more

The talk takes builds on the opportunity offered by of the first Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy to reflect on the place of women in the field of CPE. more

Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient governments, while others bypass such local authorities? Weaving together scholarship in political economy, public administration, and historical institutionalism, Simone Dietrich will argue in her talk that the bureaucratic institutions of donor countries shape donor–recipient interactions differently despite similar international and recipient country conditions. more

This last lecture considers challenges to the US dollar from the yen, euro, and renminbi, as well as the possibility of a simple collapse of the global monetary system into competing trade and monetary blocs. more

This lecture walks through six contradictions or antinomies, expanding on and updating the original contradiction Robert Triffin identified between adequate trade liquidity and confidence in the redemption of dollars for gold. more