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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Research on the social and political foundations of modern economies. 📍 Cologne Imprint: www.mpifg.de/2856/imprint

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 9h
🚨 Call: Doctoral Researcher on AI Methods and Social Science The MPIfG is part of the Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network’s 2027 PhD program. Applicants can name Regine Paul, who leads our Technology and Statehood research group, as an advisor. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 31 🔗 Apply: s.gwdg.de/clRznU
Join the Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network. Image shows QR-Code with Link to MP-AIX website: https://ai.mpg.de/en
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 12h
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an @franziskawiest.bsky.social und Sören Altstaedt zum Dissertationspreis der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social! 💐
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 15h
After 37 years at the MPIfG Library, @susiebuch.bsky.social is retiring! 🌷 Thank you for sharing your expertise, supporting open access, and helping generations of researchers – always going beyond the library. You’ll be greatly missed – so much so that the PhDs made a cardboard Susanne! 😄
Susanne HiIlbring next to a life-size cardboard Susanne
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LSE European Institute @lse-ei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can a consensus-driven system deliver radical change? 🏛️ New in German Politics, @dustinvoss.bsky.social uses Germany’s 1999 repeal of capital gains tax to argue organised capitalism can both drag out and provide political capital to enact reforms. Read more👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
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In bed with the banks? Organised capitalism, institutional bricoleurs, and the role of agency in German financial market reform
Can political systems built on consensus and veto points deliver radical change?
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wir sind auf dem #dgs2026 in Mainz! Besucht uns am Stand des MPIfG in der Verlagsausstellung (Philosophicum, neben der Mensa) und erfahrt mehr über unsere aktuelle Forschung und Karrieremöglichkeiten am Institut! @dgsoziologie.bsky.social @dgswisoz.bsky.social
Woman smiling at the MPIfG exhibition booth
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2026
We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack
Call for independent Max Planck Research Groups
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Im Oktober 2021 einigten sich mehr als 135 Länder auf ein ambitioniertes Abkommen zur globalen Besteuerung. Ein historischer Moment? Lucinda Cadzow: „Der Zwei-Säulen-Ansatz zeigt, dass historische Fortschritte möglich sind – und zugleich, wie mühsam und fragil sie bleiben.“ s.gwdg.de/DdXzig
Globale Mindeststeuer: Historischer Moment oder Politics as Usual?
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Second paper of our SER special issue (with @vapunkt.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social) out just hours after the first and it's just as great - congrats Nick! 🎉 More information in the thread below ⬇️
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very happy that the first paper of our SER special issue co-edited with @vapunkt.bsky.social and @trgn.bsky.social is now published - and what a great one it is! Congratulations Lukas! 🎉 👇 Check it out 👇
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 21/09/2026
Die Auswirkungen der #Energiepolitik untersucht Max Willems vom Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Köln. Ihn interessiert: Wer zahlt für die #Strompreise und die #Energiewende – und ist das eigentlich gerecht? / w/th @maxwillems.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social
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Stromregeln
Weg von fossilen hin zu erneuerbaren Energien: An diesem Ziel richteten in den 1990er-Jahren einige europäische Regierungen ihre Energiepolitik aus – und gingen dabei politisch unterschiedlich vor. Se...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 18/09/2026
Eine Wochenendlektüre für Wissenschaftsbegeisterte: Unser Magazin MaxPlanckForschung zum Thema #Infrastruktur ist erschienen. Darin geht es unter anderem um antikem #Beton, um #Strompreise und den Schutz vor #HardwareTrojanern. 📖 www.mpg.de/26970617/MPF... [PDF-Version]
Titel des Magazins MaxPlanckForschung zum Thema Infrastruktur. Auf dem Cover, das wie es Irrgarten aussieht, sind Leiterbahnen zu sehen, die alle Schaltelemente eines Chips miteinander verbinden, farblich codiert.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📢 Call for Visiting Researchers Join us in Cologne for 2–12 months (summer semester 2027)! Open to researchers in economic sociology and comparative and international political economy, from Germany or abroad, all career levels. 🗓️ Apply by October 31, 2026 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/uzFHHg
Call for visiting researchers, political economy, economic sociology. Application deadline: October 31, 2026.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 Call for Applications: Postdocs We’re looking for postdoctoral researchers for the following research areas and topics: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Wealth and Social Inequality 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec. 11 📢 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/UzLEpr
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researchers. Application Deadline: Dec. 11, 2026
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sign up until tomorrow!
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
📢 Join our team in Cologne as a student assistant! We are looking for a student in sociology or a comparable discipline to assist @mdemac.bsky.social in her research project “Young Investors in the Maturing Asset Economy.” 🗓️ Application deadline: September 25, 2026 s.gwdg.de/H6bJfm
Job Opening: Student Assistant (f/m/d) Economic Sociology. Application deadline: September 25, 2026
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 31/08/2026
Superreiche sind in den Medien nahezu unsichtbar. Laut Emma Ischinsky @mpifg.bsky.social gefährdet dies die #Demokratie, trägt dazu bei, den Status quo zu stabilisieren und Privilegien vor öffentlicher Debatte zu schützen. Ein Gespräch über #Reichtum und #Ungleichheit 🎧 www.mpg.de/26949160/war...
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Warum Milliardäre unsichtbar bleiben
Der Großteil der reichsten Menschen ist in den Medien nahezu unsichtbar. Laut Emma Ischinsky vom Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung gefährdet dies die Demokratie, trägt dazu bei, den Statu...
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How does assetization and assetmanagement inform social conflict? Join us for an online launch event for our NPE special issue "Asset Struggles" on Sept 17th 2PM (German time), featuring: @melindacooper.bsky.social, @jenmcarthur.bsky.social, @benbraun.eurosky.social ⬇️ Signup in post below ⬇️
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Erik Neimanns @eneimanns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Passend zum Beginn des neuen Kita-Jahres, dem Ferienende und dem Einsetzen des Rechtsanspruchs auf Ganztagsbetreuung im Grundschulalter stelle ich am 7.9. meine Arbeiten zu Zugangshürden zu Betreuung im Kita- und Grundschulalter vor. Link zur Anmeldung: koelner-wissenschaftsrunde.de/kwr_termine/...
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Camilla Locatelli @cami34.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
!! NEW PAPER !! In this new paper, we shed critical light on the way in which the turn towards more space for public investment has been celebrated as a solution for the shortcomings on the EU fiscal rules.
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Rethinking investment behind the technocratic veil: The emerging consensus on investment and the new EU fiscal rules | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
Rethinking investment behind the technocratic veil: The emerging consensus on investment and the new EU fiscal rules
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Congratulations, Philipp! 💐 well deserved! 👏
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Bryan Boyle @bryanboyle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#NatalieHarp responds to Trump’s arbitrary whims, with little limit, and reorients her life to serving him. In a recent paper about contemporary butlers, I explore how this is a powerful tendency among those who work in private service to the wealthy. 1/4 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. How...
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Patrick Cramer @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de · 20/08/2026
#Informationsfreiheit ist ein Merkmal moderner Demokratie und eine Voraussetzung für unabhängige Wissenschaft. Warum die geplante Reform des #IFG auch die Wissenschaft betrifft, zeigen Carolyn Moser, Ralph Hertwig und Erik Tuchtfeld: www.mpg.de/26923995/inf...
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you'd like to know more about the link between assets and social conflict, our SI w/ @theobourgeron.bsky.social on #assetstruggles is now complete, featuring 7 papers on 175 pages. Thread with links to papers below. Email me if you'd like the whole pack. Again our huge thanks to all involved 🙏
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Final paper from our #assetstruggles special issue now online: "The ESG backlash: contesting the low-carbon transition under asset manager capitalism" by @jenmcarthur.bsky.social. The paper studies the contestation of "greening" infrastructure assets and the effects of the anti-green backlash.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🔋 In a new MPIfG Discussion Paper, Leon Wansleben identifies “mismatch crises” in the transition to renewable energy. While the transition to sources such as wind and solar is gaining pace, the adaptation of electricity infrastructure and institutions of governance lags behind. s.gwdg.de/k5xFMh
Stack of discussion papers
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Stephan Gruber @stephangruber.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wrote this for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on the politics of Peru's growth model in the wake of Fujimori's election. The "Peruvian Model" is praised for resilient macro stability amid political turmoil — but I focus on its downsides: how it blocks structural change and hollows out democracy.
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Submit Panel proposals to the 2027 @ipsa.org World Congress of Political Science! #IPSA2027 🗓️24–28 Jul, Luiss Guido Carli ⏳️Open panels: 26 Aug | Closed panels: 4 Nov Submit on any political science topic, including the theme Uncertain Democracies: Rethinking Governance in a Changing Global System
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2027 IPSA World Congress, 24–28 Jul, Luiss Guido Carli, Rome
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🏛️ Wissenschaft im Rathaus: @eneimanns.bsky.social zeigt, warum der Zugang zu Kita und Ganztagsbetreuung trotz Ausbaus ungleich bleibt – und wo Reformen nötig sind. 🗓️ 7.9.2026, 18:30 Uhr 📍Rathaus Köln s.gwdg.de/mGF4md Studie mit @antonellafa.bsky.social: s.gwdg.de/yFbL6h @difis.bsky.social
Kind steht vor verschlossenem Tor
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🎧Hörtipp: @emmaischinsky.bsky.social im Forschungsquartett von detektor.fm zu Superreichen in den Medien: „Wir beobachten eine Form der ‚selektiven Ignoranz‘, bei der insbesondere historisch belastete Familiengeschichten systematisch aus der öffentlichen Erzählung herausgehalten werden.“
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Warum Superreiche unsichtbar bleiben
Eine Datenanalyse zeigt, wie häufig die reichsten Deutschen in den Medien auftauchen und damit, wie unsichtbar sie sind.
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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An interesting research position open at @mpifg.bsky.social in the research group on Technology and Statehood. The group’s research focus is not only extremely important and timely, but its leader Regine Paul is also a very amiable person, a thing I have learned to value in the academia. Do apply!
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Bryan Boyle @bryanboyle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New article in @bjsociology.bsky.social: "Twenty-first century butlers and the new spirit of service" (OA). Looking at the butlers that serve the wealthy today, I ask how they consent to conditions of work that many consider "servile" by modern standards. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Empirical Political Science #Duisburg @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Neuer Blogbeitrag online! 🌍 Alles haben – oder gar nichts? Wie politisch aktiv sind Menschen der zweiten Generation mit Migrationsgeschichte – und bedeutet eine stärkere Verbundenheit mit dem Aufnahmeland automatisch weniger Verbindung zum Herkunftsland? #migration #integration (1/4)
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📢 Call: Postdoctoral Researcher for our research group on Technology and Statehood, led by Regine Paul. Possible research topics include: States’ use of AI stacks, quantum computing, and digital twins. 🗓️ Apply by September 18, 2026 Please share widely! career.mpifg.de/jobposting/f...
Building of MPIfG and researchers talking
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 03/08/2026
Geringer Ertrag, großer Streit - sie macht nur etwa 1% des Steueraufkommens aus, ist aber hochexplosiv: die #Erbschaftssteuer. Jens Beckert vom MPI für Gesellschaftsforschung @mpifg.bsky.social zu Konfliktlinien & warum ein Reformspielraum derzeit dennoch denkbar ist. www.mpg.de/26890292/erb...
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Erbschaftsteuer: Geringer Ertrag, enormes Konfliktpotenzial
In einem Meinungsbeitrag nennt Jens Beckert die Gründe, warum die Erbschaftsteuer, die weniger Ertrag als die Tabaksteuer bringt, die Gemüter erhitzt und sogar an unserem Grundverständnis von Demokrat...
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The new issue of “economic sociology. perspectives and conversations” edited by Jeanne Lazarus looks at the relationship between #economicsociology and #politicaleconomy, combining intellectual history, disciplinary reflection, and autobiographical perspectives. 👉 econsoc.mpifg.de/52362/27-3
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Economic sociology in political times
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🚨New MPIfG Discussion Paper @joshcova.bsky.social and Matteo Marenco find that right-of-center parties’ appeals to collective bargaining autonomy function less as substantive commitments than as instruments to preserve the status quo in the low-wage sector. Full text: pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
Cover MPIfG Discussion Paper Cova/MarencoAbstract MPIfG Discussion Paper Cova/Marenco English and German
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Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social we trace Southern Europe’s post-crisis growth paths, from the Eurozone crisis up to Covid19, to reconcile the competing claims of a decade of CPE literature on growth in the region: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... 👇
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Shifting paths? The evolution of Southern European growth trajectories in the post-Eurozone crisis decade (2010–9)
Abstract. This article traces the growth trajectories of Southern European economies (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) over the decade 2010–9. Drawing o
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pw-portal @pw-portal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Der Europäische Gerichtshof hat ein Urteil gefällt, dass das Verhältnis von Politik & Recht in Europa revolutioniert. Martin Höpner (@mpifg.bsky.social) über die Hintergründe des Urteils, Gefahren der Verrechtlichung & die Frage, ob die EU etwas anderes als wirtschaftsliberal sein kann.
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Martin Höpner im Interview: „Der EuGH hat das Verhältnis von Politik u
Neuer Beitrag auf dem PW-Portal!
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🎓 Congratulations to the graduates of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE)! 👏 Thomas Barrett, Adriana Cassis, @emmaischinsky.bsky.social , @pkohlhase.bsky.social, @franziskawiest.bsky.social 💐
Franziska Wiest, Thomas Barrett, Pauline Kohlhase, Adriana Cassis and Emma Ischinsky smiling in front of the Institute
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New MPIfG Discussion Paper: @karenlillie.bsky.social and Luisa Hideg examine educational privatization in Germany and the associated risks for class closure and social inequality. s.gwdg.de/y6teRa
Abstract: Germany’s education system is in the midst of privatization. Although this trend, which started in the 1980s, ostensibly parallels neoliberal education reforms across Europe and the Anglophone world, Germany’s case is a special one. Privatization in the country is happening within a historical and legal context that favors public schooling; however, families increasingly exercise school choice to select “the best” for their children. The tension between historically and legally informed norms, on the one hand, and affective desires, on the other, is morally problematic for parents navigating between what is generally accepted as good for society and what they believe is good for an individual. At stake in this struggle is whether school choice becomes a “legitimate” part of the German education system, in a Bourdieusian sense. If it does, it risks strengthening social class closure mechanisms and heightening resultant social class anxiety.
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
✨ A big thank you to everyone who joined us at the MPIfG Alumni Reception during the @sasemeeting.bsky.social Conference in Bordeaux! It was a pleasure to reconnect with so many friends and colleagues and to welcome both familiar and new faces. We look forward to seeing you again soon!
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Why does it feel harder to imagine a shared future? In a new paper, Jens Beckert argues that it's not just a crisis of optimism or storytelling: we've lost some of the social foundations that make collective futures possible in the first place. Open access: s.gwdg.de/TdoXg4
Where Have All the Futures Gone? Towards a Sociological Explanation for the Crisis of Promissory Legitimacy

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It is widely acknowledged that perceptions of the future play an important role in shaping social outcomes. Imaginaries of how the future might unfold influence expectations, help coordinate social interactions and, consequently, impact the allocation of resources. While alternative and formative visions of society, creating collective expectations of the future, played an important role in social development over the past two centuries, many observers today note a widespread decline in future-oriented thinking, especially in countries of the global north—what some describe as a “loss of the future.” This article explores why inclusive social visions are so much less salient today compared to earlier times. In contrast to those who argue that stories of the future must simply be told more convincingly, this article highlights the fading of important social capacities for sustaining integrative collective visions.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@maxbradley.bsky.social and @ninalopezuroz.bsky.social explain how a single three-hour climate workshop measurably increases student support for costly policies like meat taxes and flight bans. Paper co-authored with: @renschazottes.bsky.social @susannagarside.bsky.social
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Attending SASE 2026 Bordeaux? Stop by our booth (Sciences Po main building, ground floor) to explore our latest research and learn more about career paths at the MPIfG! @sasemeeting.bsky.social
Two women at an exhibition booth with the logo of the MPIfG, with books and flyers on a table in front of them
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Emma Ischinsky @emmaischinsky.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hanna Israel vom @freitag.de hat mit mir über die weitreichende Unsichtbarkeit der reichsten Deutschen in der Presse gesprochen. Die Studie gibt es hier: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... und das Interview hier:
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The 5th paper from our #assetstruggles special issue is now online: Asset struggles and credit regimes: how dominant growth coalitions shaped credit policy and homeownership in Germany and Sweden, by @dustinvoss.bsky.social Check out the open access paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Don’t miss next week’s MPIfG Lecture by @kaikodden.bsky.social: “Understanding Germany in Times of Genocide: Franz Neumann and the Ongoing Question of Imperialism“. 🗓️ Wednesday, July 8, 16:30 📍 MPIfG, Cologne 📧 Sign up: info@mpifg.de 🔗 s.gwdg.de/nlm4Mk
Eventposter with portrait of Kai Koddenbrock and details of the lecture: July 8, 2026, 16:30. "Understanding Germany in Times of Genocide: Franz Neumann and the Ongoing Question of Imperialism." Kai Koddenbrock, Bielefeld University
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🏆 Congratulations to @bryanboyle.bsky.social and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social on their @asanews.bsky.social Distinguished Scholarly Article Award! Their paper, “The Labor of Distinction,” is based on an ethnography of the butler profession and shows how elite status is produced through service labor.
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The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles - Bryan Boyle, Dieter Vandebroeck, 2025
Elites appropriate labor that produces and reproduces distinct lifestyles. This article shows how the practice of this type of labor—what we term the “labor of ...
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Ellen Halliday @ellenhalliday.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's too hot, and we all know why. If you're sheltering from the heat like I am, do listen to Jens Beckert, who has fascinating ideas about what's stopping us from fighting climate change. @mpifg.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk @imaanirfan.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...
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Jens Beckert: Democracy won’t beat climate change
From profit maximisation to short term limits, is capitalist modernity equipped to tackle climate change?
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