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Apply now for Doctoral Positions at the IMPRS-SPCE
As Germany’s first graduate program in economic sociology and political economy, the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) welcomes outstanding doctoral students of political science and sociology from Germany and abroad. We are currently seeking doctoral researchers for the research clusters of Jens Beckert (Economic Sociology), Lucio Baccaro (Political Economy), and Carola Westermeier (Technology and Sovereignty). The closing date for applications is on February 28, 2025.
MPIfG Lecture by Kathleen R. McNamara: EU Economic Statecraft in the Age of Geopolitics
The European Union’s approach to market competition is undergoing significant changes. Competition is now being “securitized” in the EU, reshaped by geopolitical concerns rather than purely economic ones. The change is surprising, as the EU was initially established as a peace project, not a traditional state with national interests. How will the intertwining of market and security logics shape the EU going forward? Join us for this MPIfG Lecture on January 29, at 4 p.m.
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In his new book Taking Back Control?, Wolfgang Streeck analyses the ongoing tug-of-war between the forces of globalism and democracy. Exploring the possibility for states and the societies they govern to take back control over their collective fate, the book is an attempt at a renewed theory of the state in political economy. Inspired by the work of Karl Polanyi and John Maynard Keynes, it discusses the potential outlines of a state system allowing for democratic governance within and peaceful cooperation between sovereign nation-states.

Publications


Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality
How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change
Taking Back Control? States and State Systems After Globalism
Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning
Verkaufte Zukunft: Warum der Kampf gegen den Klimawandel zu scheitern droht
Wege aus dem Kapitalismus? Autorengespräche mit Colin Crouch, Nancy Fraser, Claus Offe, Wolfgang Streeck und Joseph Vogl
Austerity from the Left: Social Democratic Parties in the Shadow of the Great Recession
Dealing in Uncertainty: Insurance in the Age of Finance
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism
Behördenconsulting: Unternehmensberater in der öffentlichen Verwaltung der Bundesrepublik, 1970er- bis 2000er-Jahre
Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance
Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice
Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil’s Public Housing
Der erschöpfte Staat: Eine andere Geschichte des Neoliberalismus
Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation
MPIfG Discussion Papers
MPIfG Discussion Papers present results from ongoing research and contribute to current scholarly and public debate. They are subject to internal peer review and published open access.
MPIfG Journal Articles
Articles by MPIfG researchers that have previously been published in peer-reviewed journals are published online in the MPIfG Journal Articles series.
Höpner, Martin, Donato Di Carlo, Anke Hassel
Shielding Competitiveness: Germany’s Wage Policy during the Inflation Shock Years in Comparative Perspective. In: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2024.
Di Carlo, Donato, Anke Hassel, Martin Höpner
Growth Coalitions Within a Corporatist Setting: How Manufacturing Interests Dominated the German Response to the Energy Crisis. In: Politics & Society, 2024.
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The Securitization of Market Competition? EU Economic Statecraft in the Age of Geopolitics

Kathleen R. McNamara
Jan 29, 2025 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

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Brooke Harrington
Apr 23, 2025 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

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Jonathan White
May 7, 2025 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
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