Our online series on Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is back, with monthly sessions on topics ranging from migration politics and financial nationalism to tax havens and geofinance. Join us December 17, 2025, for the first session by Alexandre Afonso, Leiden University: “Making Global Migration More Acceptable? How the Rights and Obligations of Immigrants Upon Arrival Shape Preferences for Immigrant Admission.”

The MPIfG is looking for Postdoctoral Researchers in the social sciences for the research areas Economic Sociology (Jens Beckert) and Political Economy (Lucio Baccaro). Scholars of all nationalities who successfully completed their doctoral degree no longer than three years before the starting date at the MPIfG are eligible to apply for the postdoctoral program. The application deadline is December 15, 2025.

In her first of three issues as editor of economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Jeanne Lazarus has brought together scholars from diverse disciplines and continents to examine the nature of US economic policy and its global consequences. Featuring intellectual contributions that help interpret these developments as indicators of broader, long-term dynamics, this issue is less about tariffs than about contemporary capitalism and the political regimes that sustain it.