Veranstaltungen - Rückblick

This workshop explores how these shifts impact fiscal policymaking, European economic governance, and the future of macroeconomic stability. It will also emphasize actor-centered perspectives, engaging with policymakers, technocrats, think tanks, and economic interest groups. [more]

In the wake of the 2024 election, the Democratic Party – the largest center-left party in the West – is in crisis. Jacob S. Hacker draws on new research into voters, party-aligned interest groups, and policymaking at all levels of government to examine the party’s shifting priorities. [more]

In the 13th joint conference of the MPIfG and the German Economic Institute, researchers from the two institutions will discuss the impact of decarbonization and deglobalization on the German business model. The conference continues the debates of the last two academic conferences on the topics of Great Transformation and Resilience of Societies. [more]

In a geoeconomic world, companies become transmission belts and sites of conflict between states. Based on her recent book Corporate Crime and Punishment, Cornelia Woll will explore how the United States has used corporate criminal law well beyond its territory to shape the economy in support of its national interests. [more]

After an exceptionally successful first installment, the Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy will be held for the second time in September 2025 to address the continued underrepresentation of women in the field of comparative and international political economy. [more]

This workshop brings together scholars to examine one of the defining challenges of our time: the tensions between deep decarbonization and the political-economic foundations of growth in capitalist states. [more]

The European constitutional navigation of the noughties succeeded in stipulating that European integration had ushered in European society (Article 2 TEU). This choice remains underexplored. In light of current European uncertainty, the lecture explores the meaning and promise of European society. [more]

Since more than a decade, neoliberalism seems to undergo waves of radical transformations. We witness various types of state interventions in the name of financial security, the rise of authoritarian politics and a cultural shift towards exclusionary politics. Technology herein plays a crucial role in not just enabling concentrated economic power, but also for increasingly supplanting established forms of governing. [more]

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, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [more]

In her lecture, Valeria Pulignano introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labor, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. She establishes a crucial link between unpaid labor’s political dimensions and its role in fueling emerging forms of precarious work that are characterized by persistent inequalities in a context of labor market reforms, societal shifts, and technological changes. [more]

The objective of the conference is to theorize about the role of imagined futures in social dynamics from the perspective of the Global South. There is a vibrant theoretical literature on imagined futures and MPI scholars have contributed to our understanding of the significance of uncertainty and credible expectations in capitalist dynamics. [more]

Das Symposium zum 40-jährigen Jubiläum reflektiert wesentliche Forschungsrichtungen des MPIfG, bietet eine Standortbestimmung der politökonomischen und wirtschaftssoziologischen Forschung und wagt einen programmatischen Blick in die Zukunft. The symposium on the occasion of the 40th anniversary reflects on the MPIfG‘s primary fields of research. It will offer an assessment of the current research landscape in political economy and economic sociology and venture a programmatic look into the future. [more]

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, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [more]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This lecture explores the relationship between democracy and the expected world to come. [more]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

A multi-national elite has grown nearly ungovernable, threatening democracy, capitalism, and even the natural environment. The talk will offer a sociological analysis of the agency and mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, drawing on both a long-term ethnography of the offshore system and Big Data network analysis of its characteristics. [more]

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, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [more]