Home Events Audios and Videos Podcasts and Videos Recordings of the MPIfG Lectures and Contributions from the Annual Colloquium All Video Podcast Select type All Video Podcast Jonathan White | The Future as a Democratic Resource Podcast May 07, 2025 Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This lecture… 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 Podcast April 29, 2025 This introductory lecture lays out the main object of study of the lecture series, the shadow… 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 Podcast April 29, 2025 The second lecture pursues the theme of agency of state actors in an attempt to explain the rise of… 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 Podcast April 29, 2025 After the Great Financial Crisis, central bankers were alerted to the inherent financial stability… more Brooke Harrington | Secrecy and Kleptocracy Podcast April 24, 2025 Over a century ago, Georg Simmel noted that the need for secrecy unites the nobility with criminal… more Uwe Schimank | Wer bestimmt die Forschungsagenda von Professoren? Video November 21, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Maria-Sybilla Lotter | Die Auswirkungen des neuen Paradigmas der Verwundbarkeit auf Streitkultur und Wissenschaftsfreiheit Video November 21, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Lucio Baccaro | Academic Freedom and the “Time Inconsistency Problem” Video November 21, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Maximilian Heimstädt | Strukturwandel der wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit Video November 22, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky | Wissenschaftsfreiheit - zwischen Reflexionsgewinn und autoritären Versuchungen Video November 22, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Peter Wagner | The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels Podcast November 27, 2024 The main cause of the climate crisis is the burning of fossil fuels. This talk will turn the… more Gil Eyal | Trust Methods: Accounting for Who, What, When, and How to Trust Podcast June 19, 2024 What is trust and how should it be studied? In his talk, Gil Eyal argues against conventional… more Show more Uwe Schimank | Wer bestimmt die Forschungsagenda von Professoren? Video November 21, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Maria-Sybilla Lotter | Die Auswirkungen des neuen Paradigmas der Verwundbarkeit auf Streitkultur und Wissenschaftsfreiheit Video November 21, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Lucio Baccaro | Academic Freedom and the “Time Inconsistency Problem” Video November 21, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Maximilian Heimstädt | Strukturwandel der wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit Video November 22, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky | Wissenschaftsfreiheit - zwischen Reflexionsgewinn und autoritären Versuchungen Video November 22, 2024 Institutstag 2024 more Basak Kus | There Is More to It Than the Repeal of Glass-Steagall Video June 04, 2024 SiR Lecture Series 2024 - 2 more Basak Kus | Counting Backwards from the US Financial Crisis Video May 28, 2024 SiR Lecture Series 2024 - 1 more Wolfgang Merkel | Zerbrechlichkeit und Resilienz der Demokratie im 21. Jahrhundert Video December 07, 2023 Institutstag 2023 more Elisabeth Ivarsflaten | Paths to an Multicultural Society in Times of Populism Video December 07, 2023 Institutstag 2023 more Martin Höpner | Lässt sich das europäische Demokratiedefizit beheben? Video December 07, 2023 Institutstag 2023 more Michael Blauberger | Der Schutz der Demokratie in EU-Mitgliedsstaaten als Mehrebenenproblem Video December 08, 2023 Institutstag 2023 more Institutstag 2022 | Klimawandel und Demokratie Video November 04, 2022 Highlights more Show more Jonathan White | The Future as a Democratic Resource Podcast May 07, 2025 Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This lecture… 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 Podcast April 29, 2025 This introductory lecture lays out the main object of study of the lecture series, the shadow… 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 Podcast April 29, 2025 The second lecture pursues the theme of agency of state actors in an attempt to explain the rise of… 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 Podcast April 29, 2025 After the Great Financial Crisis, central bankers were alerted to the inherent financial stability… more Brooke Harrington | Secrecy and Kleptocracy Podcast April 24, 2025 Over a century ago, Georg Simmel noted that the need for secrecy unites the nobility with criminal… more Peter Wagner | The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels Podcast November 27, 2024 The main cause of the climate crisis is the burning of fossil fuels. This talk will turn the… more Gil Eyal | Trust Methods: Accounting for Who, What, When, and How to Trust Podcast June 19, 2024 What is trust and how should it be studied? In his talk, Gil Eyal argues against conventional… more Kimberly Morgan | Building State Power through Border Control and Immigration Enforcement Podcast June 11, 2024 We live in an age of migration, and of migration control. Global mobility and the political… more Michael Wilkinson | The End of History and the Last European Podcast April 24, 2024 In his talk, Michael A. Wilkinson reflects on postwar Europe from the perspective of the long durée… more 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… more Laura Seelkopf | The Politics of Climate Taxation Podcast November 15, 2023 There is broad consensus about the need for an effective climate policy. Based on a series of… more Dorothee Bohle | Under the Radar: Women in (Comparative) Political Economy Podcast September 11, 2023 The talk takes builds on the opportunity offered by of the first Max Planck Summer School for Women… more Show more