Solar

This article contributes to the study of the practice of industrial policy by highlighting an underappreciated dimension in the existing literature: the role of sectoral coordination in policy implementation. Empirically, it traces the trajectory of green industrial policies for solar energy in Germany from the early 1990s into the 2010s. Drawing on policy documents, news coverage, industry reports, and secondary literature, the article shows how intrasectoral conflicts undermined industrial policy implementation. While industrial policies successfully mobilized beneficiaries, they simultaneously undermined the sector’s capacity for coordination.

Article in Energy Research and Social Science on the history of solar energy policies in Germany, Japan and the United States with M. Umemura. ...

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.

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. ...

Lisa Suckert and I published a short essay on the making of the First Oil Crisis in the Economic Sociology Newsletter.