Conference on the politics of growth and stagnation

An international conference on The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation was held at the MPIfG in January. It was organized by MPIfG Director Lucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth (Brown University), and Jonas Pontusson (University of Geneva). Twenty-six researchers from institutions including Brown University, King’s College London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) attended the conference, where they explored facets of the political economy of growth models. Their discussions covered conceptual issues on the growth models perspective, processes and agents, and the growth models of different countries and regions, including China, Latin America, Sweden, and Denmark. MPIfG Political Economy of Growth Models project area