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Recordings of the MPIfG Lectures and Contributions from the Annual Colloquium

Laura Seelkopf | The Politics of Climate Taxation

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

The talk takes builds on the opportunity offered by of the first Max Planck Summer School for Women… more

Simone Dietrich | States, Markets, and Foreign Aid

Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient governments, while… more

Mark Schwartz | Scholar in Residence Lecture 3: The Dollar and Its (Lack of) Rivals: A Balance Sheet of Imperial Monetary Power

This last lecture considers challenges to the US dollar from the yen, euro, and renminbi, as well… more

Mark Schwartz | Scholar in Residence Lecture 2: Contradictions and Dynamics of Global Quasi-State Money: Triffin Reloaded

This lecture walks through six contradictions or antinomies, expanding on and updating the original… more

Mark Schwartz | Scholar in Residence Lecture 1: Money(s) and Empire - The US Dollar as Global Quasi-State Money

This lecture counterposes metallist and chartalist views on money, as manifested through the “North… more

Biao Xiang | The Privatization of Ambition in China

How has individual ambition – the desire to improve one’s life chances – driven China’s remarkable… more

Sophie Mützel | Digital Payments: New Relations in Embedded Finance

Sophie Mützel shows in her talk how the small act of paying digitally in physical stores shapes new… more

Isabella Weber | The Specter of Inflation

Isabella Weber’s presentation will start from How China Escaped Shock Therapy, her book charting… more

Book Discussion: The Rise of Central Banks

In “The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism” Leon Wansleben explores how… more

Simone Derix | Men Moving Money?

Simone Derix | Men Moving Money?

Podcast February 01, 2023

From Occupy Wall Street and the Panama Papers to the Russian oligarchs, their yachts and real… more

Fabian Muniesa | Paranoid Finance

Fabian Muniesa | Paranoid Finance

Podcast December 12, 2022

Do your own research! Type “NESARA GESARA” and see what you learn. Or try “OPPT UCC” instead. You… more

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Laura Seelkopf | The Politics of Climate Taxation

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

The talk takes builds on the opportunity offered by of the first Max Planck Summer School for Women… more

Simone Dietrich | States, Markets, and Foreign Aid

Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient governments, while… more

Mark Schwartz | Scholar in Residence Lecture 3: The Dollar and Its (Lack of) Rivals: A Balance Sheet of Imperial Monetary Power

This last lecture considers challenges to the US dollar from the yen, euro, and renminbi, as well… more

Mark Schwartz | Scholar in Residence Lecture 2: Contradictions and Dynamics of Global Quasi-State Money: Triffin Reloaded

This lecture walks through six contradictions or antinomies, expanding on and updating the original… more

Mark Schwartz | Scholar in Residence Lecture 1: Money(s) and Empire - The US Dollar as Global Quasi-State Money

This lecture counterposes metallist and chartalist views on money, as manifested through the “North… more

Biao Xiang | The Privatization of Ambition in China

How has individual ambition – the desire to improve one’s life chances – driven China’s remarkable… more

Sophie Mützel | Digital Payments: New Relations in Embedded Finance

Sophie Mützel shows in her talk how the small act of paying digitally in physical stores shapes new… more

Isabella Weber | The Specter of Inflation

Isabella Weber’s presentation will start from How China Escaped Shock Therapy, her book charting… more

Book Discussion: The Rise of Central Banks

In “The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism” Leon Wansleben explores how… more

Simone Derix | Men Moving Money?

Simone Derix | Men Moving Money?

Podcast February 01, 2023

From Occupy Wall Street and the Panama Papers to the Russian oligarchs, their yachts and real… more

Fabian Muniesa | Paranoid Finance

Fabian Muniesa | Paranoid Finance

Podcast December 12, 2022

Do your own research! Type “NESARA GESARA” and see what you learn. Or try “OPPT UCC” instead. You… more

Show more
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