Anna Hehenberger

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
doi.org/10.1177/0032...

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.

We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

I realised I follow several journals and now I learn about new publications and interesting papers often here first - so I made a Starter Pack with journal accounts in case you wanted to as well.

Let me know if I missed an important journal and I'll add it.

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Call for participants 🔥

The 4th Doctoral Conference @mpifg.bsky.social is happening and if you’re pursuing your PhD you really should be part of it.

It’s a relaxed, super inspiring atmosphere and you‘ll build a great network of peers 🌍

Submission is open for 4 more days ✨

Fourth Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy The Fourth Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy aims at building bridges and finding commonalities among young scholars whose research is addressing the complex ...

*Call for Applications*

We’re excited to announce the Fourth Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy!

Abstract Deadline: December 1, 2025

Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1432364/2026...

Please share widely!
@mpifg.bsky.social

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Pauline Kohlhase speaking in a group setting

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Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

📣 We're welcoming applications for our Visiting Researchers Program (summer semester 2026). If your work focuses on political economy or economic sociology, apply for a research stay (2-12 months). Open to researchers at all career levels!

Apply by October 31, 2025: career.mpifg.de/jobposting/1...

Packed room for the opening lecture by corneliawoll.bsky.social on "Economic Statecraft and Negotiated Justice in Global Markets."

Part of our Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy. Thanks to the fantastic speaker and organizers!
@palmapolyak.bsky.social
@dustinvoss.bsky.social

Foto of the graduates with their certificates. Maximilian Kiecker, Tobias Arbogast, Marco Oberti, Muhammad Osama Iqbal, Jeremiah Nollenberger, Anna Hehenberger, Stephan Gruber, Hanna Doose, Camilla Locatelli, Valentin Rottensteiner, Ceren Çevik and Zarah Westrich

🎓 Yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), we had the great pleasure of honoring ‪@tobiasarbogast.bsky.social, @cerencevik.bsky.social, @hadoose.bsky.social, ‬...

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📌Reminder: die tolle FMM (Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies) Konferenz findet dieses Jahr zum Thema „Gendering Macroeconomics“ statt. #FemÖk
In Berlin, 23. bis 25.10.25.

⌛Call for Papers bis 31. Mai! Alle Infos hier:

🏭💶🌍 Can export finance keep pace with an escalating climate crisis?

We have a new study and a stellar panel to discuss this.

Join us on 7.5. online: www.oefse.at/veranstaltun...

cc @oefse.at @annahehenberger.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @lukasoberndorfer.bsky.social @georgfeigl.bsky.social

Congrats Franziska!

Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access!

Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.

@bupjournals.bsky.social

Sharepic with the most important informations about the webinar.

We would like to invite you:

🌍 Webinar: Aligning Export Finance with the Paris Agreement
📅 Study launch & discussion on export credit agencies, climate targets & the politics of delay.
⏰ The climate clock is ticking – can export finance keep up?
ℹ️ Info & Registration 👉 www.oefse.at/veranstaltun...

⏰ Beschäftigte wünschen sich kürzere Arbeitszeiten
📄 Neue IfSo Expertise: www.uni-due.de/soziooekonom...
@ifso.bsky.social

Meine Rezension zu J. Dinkel "Alles bleibt in der Familie" ist jetzt bei KZfSS zu lesen: Laut D. wurde das 19./20. Jhd. zum Zeitalter der Familie. Die „Gesellschaft der Singularitäten“ gilt nicht für Erbordnungen. Im Gegenteil setzt sich das "Familienprinzip" durch
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Application deadline: April 3, 2025

📣 We’re hiring!

For our research areas led by Lucio Baccaro and Jens Beckert we are inviting applications for senior researcher positions in

political economy: s.gwdg.de/Sw6Mu8
and economic sociology: s.gwdg.de/trrYgR

Please spread the word!

Most amazing news: the MPIfG Summer School for Women in Political Economy is taking place again this fall. Apply everyone! 💫

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩

Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!

Still 50 spots open! 🙋
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At last, this paper found a (nice!) home in Stato&Mercato. With Francesco Bagnardi, we offer an explanation for the deep variation in Italian governments' policy approaches towards informal employment - shifting between enforcement efforts & blatant forbearance. www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1425/...

New publication alert! @paytongannon.bsky.social and I write about the importance of trustworthy, timely data on abortion in the case of Italy, but this dynamic plays out around the world. Citizens need to be able to hold public bureaucracies accountable! Read more in @revdem2020.bsky.social!

The 2025 Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Conference – ‘The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient’ The annual Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society conference will be held on 17-18 July 2025, at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK. The 2025 CJRES conference theme is ‘Th…

The call for papers is now open for the CJRES conference on "Cities and the Climate Crisis", held at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in July: cpes.org.uk/events/cjres...

This theme will also be the focus of a special issue of @cjres.bsky.social, so get your submissions in!

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Last week, master's students from @ifso.bsky.social visited the MPIfG. They gained insights into research on topics like "Generational Conflicts in Times of Crisis" and "Decarbonization in Export-Driven Economies" and had a chance to discuss careers paths in social science and at the Institute.

I‘d love to read an account on this too, although I think the breaking point were less the fiscal rules or the „need“ to consolidate the budget itself than the nature of suggested measures, in particular the quest to finance part of this by increasing income (wealth tax, or banking levy).

New paper out with @nilskupzok.bsky.social on "Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action." 1/

Hello Blueksky! Here we are with our new Issue and our first Post on this website! In this Editorial Jakob talks about Richard Easterlin and his impact on him. Please share widely!

www.heterodoxnews.com/n/htn338.html

Screenshot of MPI Lecture featuring Kathleen R. McNamara from Georgetown University. The title reads: “The Securitization of Market Competition? EU Economic Statecraft in the Age of Geopolitics.” The text explains the EU’s evolving competition policies. A photo of Kathleen McNamara is on the left.

Screenshot of the MPIfG Geoeconomic Turn in IPE conference. The text describes the rise of geoeconomics, including rivalries, industrial policies, and green/digital transitions, with questions about globalization and strategies for resilience.

A detailed schedule of the Geoeconomic Turn in IPE workshop. Block I – Geo-economic Power Shifts. Block II – Beyond the Global North. Block III – Europe’s Challenges. Block IV – Critical Minerals. Block V – Finance. Block VI – Infrastructures and Firms.

What a week ahead! ✨

The one & only @katemcnamara.bsky.social visits us in Cologne to talk about EU Economic Statecraft in the Age of Geopolitics

Then @luukschmitz.bsky.social & I are hosting this stellar lineup of scholars for our Geoeconomic Turn in IPE workshop 🌍

@mpifg.bsky.social

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FINANCE SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS FORMAT June 5th to 7th Open to PhD candidates and early career scholars Travel and accommodation covered for all participants JUNE 5TH TO 7TH, 2025

INSTRUCTORS: Milan Babic Cornel Ban Benjamin Braun Madison Condon Kevin Gallagher Charlotte Robertson Tim Sahay Mark Schwartz Gregor Semieniuk Chloe Thurston Yingyao Wang TOPICS INCLUDE: Dollar Hegemony Debt & Debt Relief in the U.S. History of Financing Regimes Institutional Capital Pools Debt & Finance in the Global South Rise of State Capital Global Finance in the New Cold War Finance & Decarbonization Insurance & Climate Change State Capital & Green Finance in China

🚨📣 We are so back:

ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘

- 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence
- PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs
- All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors)
- A-team of instructors 🙏💪
- Mark Blyth 😎

Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!

FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices The Federal Trade Commission’s initial findings from its surveillance pricing market study revealed that details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target

Surveillance pricing--also called price discrimination--the latest tool of profit maximization. Consumers are losing the information war. This report, the last hurrah of the Federal Trade Commission for at least four years.
tinyurl.com/bde8d8fn

Klimabonus: Für sozialen Ausgleich der CO₂-Steuer notwendig - Momentum Institut Die künftige Koalition will zur Budgetsanierung den Klimabonus streichen. Dadurch verlieren die Österreicher:innen dieses Jahr voraussichtlich 254 Euro pro Person. Ohne sozialen Ausgleich durch den Kl...

Der größte Klima-Brocken ist die Abschaffung des #Klimabonus. Dabei ist er ein zentrales Instrument für den sozialen Ausgleich der CO2-Steuer und die Streichung belastet gerade einkommensärmere Haushalte am stärksten: www.momentum-institut.at/news/klimabo...

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