Events at the MPIfG

Events at the MPIfG

The events displayed here take place at the main location of the IMPRS, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne.

Perspektiven für eine erweiterte politische Ökonomie des digitalen Kapitalismus

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Oct 23, 2023
  • Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Oliver Nachtwey
  • Universität Basel
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Technologieunternehmen sind häufig milliardenschwer, verdienen ihr Geld aber vielfach mit Werbung. Oliver Nachtwey argumentiert, dass die Wertschöpfung auf digitalen Plattformen im Sinne anthropologischer Theorien des Gabentauschs verstanden werden muss. [more]

The Politics of Climate Taxation

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Nov 15, 2023
  • Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Laura Seelkopf
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Based on a series of survey experiments across the EU and in Germany, Laura Seelkopf discusses the drivers of support for (or opposition to) climate taxation. [more]

Demokratie unter Stress

16. Institutstag des MPIfG
Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts stehen Demokratien vor vielfältigen Herausforderungen, die sich gegenseitig beeinflussen und zum Teil verstärken. Symptome dieser Lage sind der Vertrauensrückgang in politische Institutionen und der augenscheinliche Dauerstress, unter dem zentrale politische und gesellschaftliche Akteure stehen. [more]

The Logic of Credit: How and Why Credit Rating Agencies Exercize Power within Global Governance

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Jan 10, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Zsófia Barta
  • University at Albany
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
Although credit rating agencies are best known for their disastrous role in recent financial crises, the function they fulfil in “normal times” is just as important and arguably much more pernicious. Sovereign ratings place significant and tendentious constraints on the policy choices of democratically elected governments. [more]

Companies and Climate Activists in the Transformation toward Deep Decarbonization

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Jan 31, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anita Engels
  • Universität Hamburg
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
There is a growing ecology of actors concerned with climate change and trying to promote a transformation toward the goal of a deep decarbonization of society. At the same time global emissions curves do not point downwards, the world is still tightly locked into a fossil fuel-based economy. [more]
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