New Paper on Conditionality in Regulation and Governance
Together with Fabio Bulfone and Erez Maggor I have just published a paper on conditionality in industrial policy. ...
New Paper on the evolution of European climate policies in Regulation and Governance
Together with Luuk Schmitz I have just published a paper on the evolution of European climate policies. ...
Call for Applications: Villa Vigoni-Gespraech on Europe and the Geoeconomic Challenge
Together with Donato Di Carlo, Anke Hassel, Kate McNamara, and Manuela Moschella I’m organizing the Villa Vigoni-Gespräch ‘Europe and the Geoeconomic Challenge’, 22 to 24 April 2025, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy. We’re inviting applications for up to three advanced students and early career researchers to participate. The deadline for applications is 10 January 2025. A detailed call for applications can be found here.
Call for Papers: Socio-economic Review Special Issue on »The Socio-economics of Loss and Decline in the Climate Crisis«
Together with Valentina Ausserladscheider and Philipp Golka I’m organizing a SASE mini-conference on the Socio-economics of asset stranding in Montréal in July 2025. If you’re working on climate change mitigation and adaptation please consider joining us. A detailed call can be found here.
Call for Applications: SASE Early Career Workshop
I’m chairing the 2025 SASE Early Career Workshop committee. The SASE Early Career Workshop (ECW) is a one-day workshop that provides an opportunity for a longer and deeper discussion of applicants’ conference papers. It takes place the day before the start of the annual conference (8 July 2025). The 2025 Early Career Workshop will be hosted in partnership with McGill University, with senior SASE and McGill professors. The (hard) deadline for submissions: 16 December 2024. ...
Call for Papers: SASE Montreal Mini Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
Together with Valentina Ausserladscheider and Philipp Golka I’m organizing a SASE mini-conference on the Socio-economics of asset stranding in Montréal in July 2025. If you’re working on climate change mitigation and adaptation please consider joining us. A detailed call can be found here.
New Paper on Industrial Policy Conditionalities
Together with Fabio Bulfone and Erez Maggor I have just published a paper on the politics of conditionality in industrial policy. ...
SER-Review Symposium on Lehdonvirta's Cloud Empires
The Socio-Economic Review has published our review symposium on Vili Lehdonvirta’s Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control.
Call for Applications: Sociology of Markets Seminar in Paris
We have put out a call for applications for a PhD seminar on the sociology of markets. The seminar is fully funded by the DFH/UFA and will be held at Sciences Po Paris from January 10–12, 2024. Please apply by October 31st and join us to discuss the future of the sociology of markets with an interdisciplinary group of researchers.
Publication on Crisis Perceptions in Historical Social Research
A new paper in Historical Social Research on sense-making during the First Oil Crisis. ...
Publication on Globalization and Comparative Analysis in Competition & Change
A new paper in Competition & Change on the problems economic globalization creates for comparative analysis. ...
Publication on Industrial Policy in Competition & Change
A new paper in Competition & Change on the decline of conditionality in state aid to business. ...
Publication in the MPIfG Discussion Paper Series
A new paper in the Max Planck Institute’s Discussion Paper Series on the problems economic globalization creates for comparative analysis. ...
Publication in the Socio-economic Review
A new article in the Socio-economic Review on the history of American tax policies in the 1980s. ...
Publication in Energy Research and Social Science
Article in Energy Research and Social Science on the history of solar energy policies in Germany, Japan and the United States with M. Umemura. ...
Publication in Symposium on Piketty's Capitalism and Ideology
Article in Analyse & Kritik on the history and limits of the Mittelstand-ideal in debates about democratic capitalism with S. Kohl. ...
Chapter in volume on economic nationalism
I’ve contributed a chapter to Klaus Kraemer’s and Sascha Münnich’s edited volume on the sociology of economic nationalism. My chapter investigates the EU’s trade policy response to overcapacity in the solar industry as a moral economic conflict.
Chapter in Handbook of Economic Sociology for the 21st Century
Together with Jens Beckert we contributed a chapter to a new Handbook of Economic Sociology for the 21st Century, edited by Andrea Maurer. The hardcover version has just arrived, so the ebook should be available soon. A preprint of our chapter has been published as an MPIfG discussion paper. ...
Two papers in edited volume on pragmatism in the social sciences
A new edited volume on pragmatist social science features two of my papers. A first one with the title Eine pragmatistische Theorie technologischer Innovation explores how to think about technological innovation from a Deweyan perspective. The second, co-authored with Martin Seeliger, Kollektive Erwartungsbildung und die Entstehung von Kooperation demonstrates how recent thinking about imagined futures can be the basis of a pragmatist understanding of collective action. ...
Essay on the First Oil Crisis
Lisa Suckert and I published a short essay on the making of the First Oil Crisis in the Economic Sociology Newsletter.