Public Events

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. [more]

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. [more]

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. [more]

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.” [more]

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. [more]

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. [more]

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. [more]

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. [more]