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Political Economy of Consulting

Workshop
  • Beginn: 08.04.2024
  • Ende: 09.04.2024
  • Ort: Cologne
This mini-conference provides a platform for in-depth discussions and exploration of the interplay between consultants and the political economy. Consultants can exert influence on political and economic outcomes in ways that are not immediately apparent. Advising governments and corporations on policies, market strategies, and organizational practices, consultants can indirectly shape political economy decisions and economic trajectories. [mehr]

Words and Distinctions for the Common Good

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 10.04.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Vortragender: Gabriel Abend
  • University of Lucerne
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Social scientists do research on many topics: gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about power, neoliberalism, values, the welfare state, social movements, and empathy. [mehr]

Verkaufte Zukunft: Warum der Kampf gegen den Klimawandel zu scheitern droht

Jens Beckert im Gespräch mit Gert Scobel
Seit Jahrzehnten wissen wir um die Gefährlichkeit der Erderwärmung. Dennoch nehmen die globalen Treibhausgasemissionen weiter zu. Offenbar gelingt es uns nicht, den Klimawandel zu stoppen. Wie lässt sich dieses Versagen erklären? Warum reagieren Gesellschaften so zögerlich auf diese Bedrohung? [mehr]

EU Economic Policy on Social Reproduction: A Differentiated Impact for East and West?

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, Saila Stausholm, and Dustin Voss. [mehr]

The End of History and the Last European

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 24.04.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Vortragender: Michael A. Wilkinson
  • London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
In his talk, Michael A. Wilkinson reflects on postwar Europe from the perspective of the long durée of European constitutional history and the interwar breakdown of liberal democracy. He suggests that far from “revolutionary,” as it has been characterized, postwar European constitutionalism is better understood as elitist and even counter-revolutionary in trajectory. [mehr]
In her lecture series as this year’s MPIfG Scholar in Residence, Bașak Kuș from Wesleyan University will share insights into how governments conceptualize and mitigate risk, and the significant role that economists and economistic reasoning play in shaping these processes – essential analysis for understanding the foundations of the crises that mark our times, from finance to climate, ultimately extending to the crisis of democracy. [mehr]
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, Saila Stausholm, and Dustin Voss. [mehr]

There Is More to It Than the Repeal of Glass-Steagall: Drifting, Micro, and Information-Based Financial Regulation

Scholar in Residence Lecture II
In her lecture series as this year’s MPIfG Scholar in Residence, Bașak Kuș from Wesleyan University will share insights into how governments conceptualize and mitigate risk, and the significant role that economists and economistic reasoning play in shaping these processes – essential analysis for understanding the foundations of the crises that mark our times, from finance to climate, ultimately extending to the crisis of democracy. [mehr]

Building State Power through Border Control and Immigration Enforcement

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 11.06.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 15:00 - 16:30
  • Vortragender: Kimberly Morgan
  • George Washington University
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
In her talk, Kimberly Morgen will discuss the extensive buildup of border policing and immigration enforcement in the United States since the start of the 2000s as an example of state expansion. [mehr]
In her lecture series as this year’s MPIfG Scholar in Residence, Bașak Kuș from Wesleyan University will share insights into how governments conceptualize and mitigate risk, and the significant role that economists and economistic reasoning play in shaping these processes – essential analysis for understanding the foundations of the crises that mark our times, from finance to climate, ultimately extending to the crisis of democracy. [mehr]
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, Saila Stausholm, and Dustin Voss. [mehr]

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

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 19.06.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00 - 18:30
  • Vortragender: Gil Eyal
  • Columbia University, New York
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
In his talk, Gil Eyal argues against conventional approaches to studying trust in the social sciences and proposes an alternate strategy focused on “trust methods.” [mehr]

IMPRS-SPCE Summer Conference

Nineteenth Summer Conference on Economy and Society
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, Saila Stausholm, and Dustin Voss. [mehr]

Hoarding Opportunities: Entrepreneurship and Inequality

Conference
  • Beginn: 25.09.2024
  • Ende: 27.09.2024
  • Ort: Cologne
The conference will explore the dynamics of entrepreneurship within the broader context of social inequality, centering on the pivotal concept of “opportunity hoarding” as proposed by Charles Tilly. [mehr]
Employing the lens of the life and work of Otto Kahn-Freund, we investigate the invention of labor law as a distinct field of legal doctrine and scholarship. Invention and reinvention are understood here to be ongoing political and scholarly processes, involving the defense of existing institutions and the development of new ones. We consider developments across the twentieth century. [mehr]
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