Events at the MPIfG

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The Summer Conference on Economy and Society is an integral part of the curriculum of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE). Since 2006, the summer conferences bring together reknowned scholars and graduate students in political economy, economic sociology, and related fields from a network of partner institutions that now include Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Northwestern University, Sciences Po, Columbia University, and the European University Institute. [more]

Recent scholarship on wealth inequality has paid close attention to the extreme concentration of wealth at the very top of the distribution. [more]

MAX CPE is a new online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy which aims to foster exchanges, connections, and conversations in the global community of scholars of Comparative Political Economy (CPE) and beyond. [more]

The consolidation of modern social theory, in the writings of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, coincided with the height of European empires and global war between them. Yet, empire lay outside the purview of mainstream social theory except as a phenomenon associated with earlier historical periods and civilizations. [more]

The rise and fall of populist parties across Europe has attracted much attention. But is this a new phenomenon? In her talk, Catherine De Vries suggests not. [more]

The extent of social inequalities was well known before the pandemic arrived. Poverty and staggering wealth had already reappeared at levels not seen since the gilded age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [more]

How do entrepreneurs create organizations intended to disrupt an environment? And how do they stabilize them as organizations once they have made their mark? This talk provides a framework for understanding how issue entrepreneurs propel disruptive organizations by switching identities between different network domains. [more]