📢 Call: Postdoctoral Researcher for our research group on Technology and Statehood, led by Regine Paul. Possible research topics include: States’ use of AI stacks, quantum computing, and digital twins. 🗓️ Apply by September 18, 2026 Please share widely! career.mpifg.de/jobposting/f...

Geringer Ertrag, großer Streit - sie macht nur etwa 1% des Steueraufkommens aus, ist aber hochexplosiv: die #Erbschaftssteuer. Jens Beckert vom MPI für Gesellschaftsforschung @mpifg.bsky.social zu Konfliktlinien & warum ein Reformspielraum derzeit dennoch denkbar ist. www.mpg.de/26890292/erb...

Erbschaftsteuer: Geringer Ertrag, enormes Konfliktpotenzial

In einem Meinungsbeitrag nennt Jens Beckert die Gründe, warum die Erbschaftsteuer, die weniger Ertrag als die Tabaksteuer bringt, die Gemüter erhitzt und sogar an unserem Grundverständnis von Demokrat...

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The new issue of “economic sociology. perspectives and conversations” edited by Jeanne Lazarus looks at the relationship between #economicsociology and #politicaleconomy, combining intellectual history, disciplinary reflection, and autobiographical perspectives. 👉 econsoc.mpifg.de/52362/27-3

Economic sociology in political times

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🚨New MPIfG Discussion Paper @joshcova.bsky.social and Matteo Marenco find that right-of-center parties’ appeals to collective bargaining autonomy function less as substantive commitments than as instruments to preserve the status quo in the low-wage sector. Full text: pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...

New in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social we trace Southern Europe’s post-crisis growth paths, from the Eurozone crisis up to Covid19, to reconcile the competing claims of a decade of CPE literature on growth in the region: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... 👇

Shifting paths? The evolution of Southern European growth trajectories in the post-Eurozone crisis decade (2010–9)

Abstract. This article traces the growth trajectories of Southern European economies (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) over the decade 2010–9. Drawing o

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Der Europäische Gerichtshof hat ein Urteil gefällt, dass das Verhältnis von Politik & Recht in Europa revolutioniert. Martin Höpner (@mpifg.bsky.social) über die Hintergründe des Urteils, Gefahren der Verrechtlichung & die Frage, ob die EU etwas anderes als wirtschaftsliberal sein kann.

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Neuer Beitrag auf dem PW-Portal!

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🎓 Congratulations to the graduates of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE)! 👏 Thomas Barrett, Adriana Cassis, @emmaischinsky.bsky.social , @pkohlhase.bsky.social, @franziskawiest.bsky.social 💐

New MPIfG Discussion Paper: @karenlillie.bsky.social and Luisa Hideg examine educational privatization in Germany and the associated risks for class closure and social inequality. s.gwdg.de/y6teRa

The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

✨ A big thank you to everyone who joined us at the MPIfG Alumni Reception during the @sasemeeting.bsky.social Conference in Bordeaux! It was a pleasure to reconnect with so many friends and colleagues and to welcome both familiar and new faces. We look forward to seeing you again soon!

Why does it feel harder to imagine a shared future? In a new paper, Jens Beckert argues that it's not just a crisis of optimism or storytelling: we've lost some of the social foundations that make collective futures possible in the first place. Open access: s.gwdg.de/TdoXg4

@maxbradley.bsky.social and @ninalopezuroz.bsky.social explain how a single three-hour climate workshop measurably increases student support for costly policies like meat taxes and flight bans. Paper co-authored with: @renschazottes.bsky.social @susannagarside.bsky.social

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A single 3-hour workshop measurably increased support for tough climate policies, like taxing beef and banning short-haul flights. New @eui-sps.bsky.social research in PNAS. We spoke to authors Max Bradley & Nina Lopez-Uroz 🔗 loom.ly/QJIXMpQ

Attending SASE 2026 Bordeaux? Stop by our booth (Sciences Po main building, ground floor) to explore our latest research and learn more about career paths at the MPIfG! @sasemeeting.bsky.social

Hanna Israel vom @freitag.de hat mit mir über die weitreichende Unsichtbarkeit der reichsten Deutschen in der Presse gesprochen. Die Studie gibt es hier: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... und das Interview hier:

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Fast ein Viertel der 500 reichsten Deutschen taucht in keiner einzigen Zeitung auf. Emma Ischinsky hat untersucht, warum. Sie weiß, weshalb in Deutschland lieber über Bürgergeldempfänger als über Milliardäre gestritten wird. Ein Gespräch www.freitag.de/autoren/hann...

The 5th paper from our #assetstruggles special issue is now online: Asset struggles and credit regimes: how dominant growth coalitions shaped credit policy and homeownership in Germany and Sweden, by @dustinvoss.bsky.social Check out the open access paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Don’t miss next week’s MPIfG Lecture by @kaikodden.bsky.social: “Understanding Germany in Times of Genocide: Franz Neumann and the Ongoing Question of Imperialism“. 🗓️ Wednesday, July 8, 16:30 📍 MPIfG, Cologne 📧 Sign up: info@mpifg.de 🔗 s.gwdg.de/nlm4Mk

🏆 Congratulations to @bryanboyle.bsky.social and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social on their @asanews.bsky.social Distinguished Scholarly Article Award! Their paper, “The Labor of Distinction,” is based on an ethnography of the butler profession and shows how elite status is produced through service labor.

The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles - Bryan Boyle, Dieter Vandebroeck, 2025

Elites appropriate labor that produces and reproduces distinct lifestyles. This article shows how the practice of this type of labor—what we term the “labor of ...

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It's too hot, and we all know why. If you're sheltering from the heat like I am, do listen to Jens Beckert, who has fascinating ideas about what's stopping us from fighting climate change. @mpifg.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk @imaanirfan.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Jens Beckert: Democracy won’t beat climate change

From profit maximisation to short term limits, is capitalist modernity equipped to tackle climate change?

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How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵

Eine digitale Millionärskarte – am 22. Juni wird dieses Produkt aus dem Forschungsprojekt „Where the Rich Live“ an der TU Berlin vorgestellt. Anmeldung und weitere Infos: s.gwdg.de/a55W9A @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @kerstinbrueckweh.bsky.social @isabellstamm.bsky.social @dariatisch.bsky.social

On my way to @dvpw.bsky.social #3LT2026 in Friedrichshafen! Me and Valentin Rottensteiner looked at Nepal’s Gen Z protests with a visual analysis, we looked at how pop culture images #OnePiece took part in the protests for framing purposes 🏴‍☠️ Come to our panel on Authoritarianism on Friday to see! 🤗

ICYMI: Hanna Kuusela’s three-part Scholar in Residence lecture series is now available in full on our website: www.mpifg.de/1184468/audi...

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Die Mitschnitte der MPIfG Lectures, Institutstagsbeiträge und weiterer Podcasts und Videos bieten umfassende Informationen zu wichtigen wissenschaftlichen Diskussionen.

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My scholar in residence lectures at @mpifg.bsky.social start tomorrow Tuesday. The title of the series is ”The Redistributive Ethos in Crisis: Three Imaginaries Dismantling the Welfare State” in which I try to analyse the decline of the Nordic welfare model. Chainsaws and scissors will be mentioned.

Gigantische Summen, maximale Versprechen: Heute geht Elon Musks SpaceX an die Börse und strebt dabei eine Bewertung von rund 1,75 Billionen US-Dollar an. Jens Beckert erklärt, worauf solche Bewertungen beruhen: nicht auf Geschäftszahlen, sondern auf imaginierten Zukünften.

Billionenwette auf SpaceX: Was der Börsengang über den Kapitalismus verrät

Elon Musks SpaceX strebt eine Bewertung von unglaublichen 1,75 Billionen Dollar an. Was treibt Investoren zu dieser Wette? Jens Beckert erklärt, warum Kapitalismus ohne Phantasie nicht funktioniert – ...

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Second paper from our #assetstruggles SI now online: @hadoose.bsky.social makes the crucial point that asset struggles over climate governance not only include climate vulnerable & climate forcing assets – but that climate policy itself often takes an asset form, reconfiguring power. Check it out!

Tomorrow in our online series on Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE): @florencedafe.bsky.social and @lenarethel.bsky.social on “Economic statecraft in emerging middle powers: Payment system development in Indonesia and Nigeria” 📅 June 10, 1–2pm 📧 Sign up: maxcpe@mpifg.de s.gwdg.de/fLXicN

Ein Klimaschutzgesetz, das bis zu 70 Prozent der Kosten erstattet und trotzdem scheitert. Warum half staatliche Entlastung nichts gegen die Wut über „Habecks Heizungs-Hammer“? Eine Analyse von 112 TikTok-Videos mit 26 Millionen Aufrufen liefert überraschende Antworten. www.mpifg.de/1526744/2026...

Klimaschutz als Bedrohung?

Ein Klimaschutzgesetz, das bis zu 70 Prozent der Kosten erstattet und trotzdem scheitert. Warum half staatliche Entlastung nichts gegen die Wut über „Habecks Heizungs-Hammer“? Eine Analyse von 112 Tik...

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Congratulations to Hannah Pool on the 2026 Alice Amsden Best Book Award! Well deserved! 💐 More on Hannah’s book “The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe”: s.gwdg.de/x2m9GJ

The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe

Hannah Pool's ethnography, '"The Game," follows Afghan asylum seekers on their dangerous journey to Europe, detailing the economic and social strategies they use to navigate undocumented migration rou...

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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics@sasemeeting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📖 #HannahPool won the 2026 Alice Amsden Best Book Award for The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe Congrats to shortlisted authors #ThomasAguilera, #FrancescaArtioli, #ClaireColomb, #BenjaminBradlow, #KatherineEvaMaich & #YingyaoWang 🔗 sase.org/news/2026-al...

✨ MaxCPE is back tomorrow✨ Don’t miss our webinar on 27th May at 3pm CEST. Amy Verdun (@amyverdun.bsky.social) and Lucia Quaglia will present their paper, followed by a discussion by Luuk Schmitz (@luukschmitz.bsky.social). ✉️ Drop an email to maxcpe@mpifg.de to sign up

💐 Last Friday, we celebrated the 60th birthday of Lucio Baccaro with a symposium highlighting the interdisciplinary collaborations he has built throughout his career. Colleagues and fellow researchers honored his achievements and impact. Thank you to all who participated!

Don’t miss next week’s session in our online series on Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE): Amy Verdun on “Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies”. 📅 May 27, 3–4pm CET 📍 online 📧 Sign up: maxcpe@mpifg.de @uvic.ca s.gwdg.de/NXuc2p