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Recordings of the MPIfG Lectures and Contributions from the Annual Colloquium

Armin von Bogdandy | European Society: Its Meaning and Its Promise

The European constitutional navigation of the noughties succeeded in stipulating that European integration had ushered in European society (Article 2… more

Valeria Pulignano | The Politics of Unpaid Labor

In her lecture, Valeria Pulignano introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labor, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of… more

Jonathan White | The Future as a Democratic Resource


Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This lecture explores the relationship between democracy and the… more

Matthias Thiemann | Scholar in Residence Lecture 1: The Conventional Wisdom on the Rise of Shadow Banking and the Neglect of Financial Stability Concerns: Strengths and Weaknesses


This introductory lecture lays out the main object of study of the lecture series, the shadow banking system, its wider importance for the… more

Matthias Thiemann | Scholar in Residence Lecture 2: Foundations of the Rise of Shadow Banking in the US in the 1950s and 1960s: Acts of Commission and Acts of Omission by the Fed and the Treasury

The second lecture pursues the theme of agency of state actors in an attempt to explain the rise of the shadow banking system in the US by focusing on… more

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Armin von Bogdandy | European Society: Its Meaning and Its Promise

The European constitutional navigation of the noughties succeeded in stipulating that European integration had ushered in European society (Article 2… more

Valeria Pulignano | The Politics of Unpaid Labor

In her lecture, Valeria Pulignano introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labor, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of… more

Jonathan White | The Future as a Democratic Resource


Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This lecture explores the relationship between democracy and the… more

Matthias Thiemann | Scholar in Residence Lecture 1: The Conventional Wisdom on the Rise of Shadow Banking and the Neglect of Financial Stability Concerns: Strengths and Weaknesses


This introductory lecture lays out the main object of study of the lecture series, the shadow banking system, its wider importance for the… more

Matthias Thiemann | Scholar in Residence Lecture 2: Foundations of the Rise of Shadow Banking in the US in the 1950s and 1960s: Acts of Commission and Acts of Omission by the Fed and the Treasury

The second lecture pursues the theme of agency of state actors in an attempt to explain the rise of the shadow banking system in the US by focusing on… more

Matthias Thiemann | Scholar in Residence Lecture 3: Technocratic Myopia and the Time Inconsistency Problem Revisited: The Struggle Post-2008 to Integrate Financial Stability in Monetary Policy at the Fed

After the Great Financial Crisis, central bankers were alerted to the inherent financial stability risks of the shadow banking system, its endogenous… more

Brooke Harrington | Secrecy and Kleptocracy

Over a century ago, Georg Simmel noted that the need for secrecy unites the nobility with criminal gangs in their quest for power and resources. This… more

Peter Wagner | The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels

The main cause of the climate crisis is the burning of fossil fuels. This talk will turn the question around and aim at identifying the social… more

Gil Eyal | Trust Methods: Accounting for Who, What, When, and How to Trust

What is trust and how should it be studied? In his talk, Gil Eyal argues against conventional approaches to studying trust in the social sciences and… more

Kimberly Morgan | Building State Power through Border Control and Immigration Enforcement

We live in an age of migration, and of migration control. Global mobility and the political responses it has engendered have impelled governments in… more

Michael Wilkinson | The End of History and the Last European

In his talk, Michael A. Wilkinson reflects on postwar Europe from the perspective of the long durée of European constitutional history and the… more

Zsófia Barta | The Logic of Credit

Zsófia Barta | The Logic of Credit

Podcast January 10, 2024

The lecture will explain how rating agencies award sovereign ratings; why they impose penalties on certain political and policy choices; why they are… more

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