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The Great Green Game: How Europe Lost Cleantech Primacy to China

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Nov 30, 2026
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Cornel Ban
  • Copenhagen Business School
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
For a decade, Europe was supposed to be the lab and the workshop of the green future. Then China overtook it—at speed and at scale. In his talk, Cornel Ban explains how that reversal happened—and why prevailing explanations get China wrong. [more]
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Governing Growth: The Postwar Transformations of Capitalism and Democracy

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Dec 16, 2026
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Peter A. Hall
  • Harvard University
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In his talk, Peter A. Hall will discuss the arguments in his new book, Governing Growth. He asks: How do capitalist economies change over time? [more]
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Gesellschaftliche Drift: Dynamisierter Wandel, institutionelle Schwäche und kritische Weichenstellung

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Jan 27, 2027
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Steffen Mau
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Der Vortrag unternimmt den konzeptuellen Versuch, die gegenwärtigen Wandlungsdynamiken in westlichen Gesellschaften mit dem Begriff der Drift diagnostisch zu erfassen. [more]
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