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The article makes a theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the polarization of society and politics in Germany. From the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and the further dev...

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Deutschlands Reichste werden laut einer neuen Studie kaum in den Medien erwähnt. Dieser Vorhang des Schweigens verhindert eine aufgeklärte Debatte über Ungleichheit.

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How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

This article reconstructs the historical rise of the Big Four accounting firms as central actors in Luxembourg’s offshore financial centre. Moving beyond bank- and law-centric narratives, it traces how international audit networks embedded themselves in a small national market from the 1970s onward through alliances with leading local fiduciaries, integration into the expanding investment fund industry, and participation in regulatory and consultative arenas. Drawing on interviews, professional data, and institutional records, the study shows how these firms shifted from marginal service providers to key architects of tax structuring, fund governance, and financial legislation. Their dominance in fund auditing, growing role in tax and advisory work, and organizational model reshaped professional hierarchies, including the legal sector. The Luxembourg case highlights how global professional service firms act as intermediaries between states and mobile capital, making them structural components of contemporary offshore finance rather than merely technical advisers.

Das internationale Epstein-Netzwerk gefährdet nach Einschätzung des Soziologen Michael Hartmann das Vertrauen in die Demokratie und ihre Institutionen.

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A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfare

Depuis quelques années, la seconde finance est venue transformer l'économie mais aussi remettre en question les fondements démocratiques de régimes politiques. La sociologue Marlène Benquet s'est donn...

Between Precarity and Persistence: Concepts, Methods, and Topics in Global History In honor of the 70th birthday of Madeleine Herren, former Director of the Institute for European Global Studies and Professor emerita of Modern History, the Institute for European Global Studies is hosting the international conference “Between Precarity and Persistence: Concepts, Methods, and Topics in Global History”. The event asks what global history can – and should – contribute in the coming years. The program will feature leading scholars in global, economic, and transnational history. Participation in the conference is by invitation. How can historians rethink established approaches considering recurrent crises, contested global orders and the changing relationship between capital, governance, and mobility? What new perspectives emerge when capitalism, logistics and international organisations are understood as infrastructures of inequality as well as of connection? And how might new forms of (digital) data and methodological innovation transform the practice of global and transnational history? Program: 11:15 – 11:30 Introduction Corey Ross (Basel) and Lars Kury (Basel) 11:30 – 13:00 Keynote Lecture: Thinking in Chains: Revisiting the Emergence of Global Cotton Capitalism, 1784–1833 Mary O’Sullivan (Geneva) Chair: Corey Ross (Basel) 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 – 14:45 Salvaging Global History Roland Wenzlhuemer (Munich) Chair: Lars Kury (Basel) 14:45 – 15:30 Human Origins: A Global Perspective Johannes Paulmann (Mainz) Chair: Benjamin Auberer (Munich) 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 – 16:45 Race Decolonisation and Human Rights: Thinking Global European History from the Perspective of the Ecumenical Movement Isabella Löhr (Potsdam) Chair: Lea Katharina Kasper (Basel) 16:45 – 17:30 Selling Global Economic History to Gens Z and Alpha, or how to write a Book? Ines Prodöhl (Bergen) Chair: Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş (Potsdam) 17:30 – 18:30 Round Table Susanna Burghartz (Basel) · Amalia Ribi Forclaz (Geneva) Madeleine Herren (Basel) · Kerstin von Lingen (Vienna) Moderation: Corey Ross (Basel) From 19:00 Greeting Address: Thomas Staehelin (President, Stiftung Europainstitut Basel) Tribute for Madeleine Herren: Sacha Zala (Bern) Organisiert von Institute for European Global Studies CS 04. Februar 2026 Institute for European Global Studies Riehenstrasse 154 4058  Basel Website der Veranstaltung Flyer Image for Content

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Wie erhalten sehr reiche Menschen ihr Familienvermögen? Welche Praktiken geben sie an spätere Generationen weiter? Das erforscht die Soziologin Isabell Stamm – unter anderem, indem sie Veranstaltungen von reichen für reiche Menschen besucht.

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This article reflects on the potential of the rapidly emerging literary genre of autosociobiography to extend analyses of the personal experience and feelings a...

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