Events at the MPIfG

The workshop will bring together historians, economists, and social scientists to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between quantitative and qualitative approaches. By linking statistical reconstruction with institutional and political analysis, the meeting will explore how inequalities are created, sustained, and occasionally reversed through historical processes of power, policy, and social conflict. [more]

Globally, women accumulate less wealth than men. The gender wealth gap is most pronounced at the top of the wealth distribution. In her talk, Céline Bessière discusses how tax strategies are gendered, with consequences for wealth inequality. [more]

Hanna Kuusela is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2026. During her stay at the Institute, she presents a lecture series entitled "The Redistributive Ethos in Crisis: Three Imaginaries Dismantling the Welfare State." The three lectures will take place on May 5, and May 26, and June 2, 2026. [more]

In his talk, Jonathan Levy introduces the problem of the demand for money in history, and seeks — drawing from Keynes — to clarify demand as a category of analysis across economic but also social, cultural, and political life. [more]

The Summer Conference on Economy and Society was established in 2006 and will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in June 2026. When it was founded, the goal was to foster an ongoing dialogue between economic sociology and political economy. [more]

In the face of exploding investments into the weapons industry, the rise of the AfD, and the silence in the face of plausible genocide, Kai Koddenbrock’s talk explores how these old and more recent theories of fascism and of imperialism can help us make sense of the current German “model.” [more]

In an era of overlapping crises marked by trade wars, energy price shocks, and military conflicts, global economic interdependencies are increasingly becoming a source of vulnerability and an arena of strategic intervention. The theme of this year’s newly launched MPIfG Symposium considers geoeconomic tensions and how they are reshaping societies. [more]