Capitalism and Modern Society

Capitalism and Modern Society (University of Bremen)

This course examines the major political-economic controversies of modernity: the origins of capitalism, the role of politics in liberal economic order, and the relationship between capitalism and democracy.

August 2025 · Timur Ergen

Publication on Globalization and Comparative Analysis in Competition & Change

A new paper in Competition & Change on the problems economic globalization creates for comparative analysis. ...

May 2022 · Timur Ergen

Publication on Industrial Policy in Competition & Change

A new paper in Competition & Change on the decline of conditionality in state aid to business. ...

May 2022 · Timur Ergen

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. ...

December 2021 · Timur Ergen

Publication in the Socio-economic Review

A new article in the Socio-economic Review on the history of American tax policies in the 1980s. ...

October 2021 · Timur Ergen

Essay on small firm ideologies on Makronom

Sebastian Kohl and I published a short essay on small firm ideologies on Makronom. ...

March 2021 · Timur Ergen

Call for contributions – The Role of the State in Digital Transitions

Call for contributions for a panel series on the state in digital transitions at the SASE Annual Meeting in 2021.

December 2020 · Timur Ergen