Foto of the graduates with their certificates. Maximilian Kiecker, Tobias Arbogast, Marco Oberti, Muhammad Osama Iqbal, Jeremiah Nollenberger, Anna Hehenberger, Stephan Gruber, Hanna Doose, Camilla Locatelli, Valentin Rottensteiner, Ceren Çevik and Zarah Westrich

🎓 Yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), we had the great pleasure of honoring ‪@tobiasarbogast.bsky.social, @cerencevik.bsky.social, @hadoose.bsky.social, ‬...

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I wrote this piece with my friend and colleague @vanessa endrejat on the conflict between Germany and EU fiscal rules.
Check it out!

Germany, EU fiscal rules and the illusion of objectivity German defence spending risks breaking EU fiscal rules. But while the rules are presented as a technical calculation, they are less objective than it appears.

💥 New: Germany, EU fiscal rules and the illusion of objectivity

✍️ @cami34.bsky.social & Vanessa Endrejat
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I am honoured to see my PhD research featured on the Institut Avant-garde page!
Check out if you want to know more about French fiscal policy and EU rules 👇 (in French)

We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share!

🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne
🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025

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The book underlines the intertwining between structural power and international dependencies and the aiding role of free trade reforms in favoring this world order in the 19th century (with interesting parallels with today). An important read!

The book is a powerful reconstruction of the role that liberal reform played in creating and sustaining the power of a dominating hegemonic class sitting at the core of the capitalist system.

Book Review: A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms by Giampaolo Conte - Camilla Locatelli, 2025

A few months ago, I had the chance to read and review the new book from Giampaolo Conte titled "A History of Capital Transformation: a Critique of Liberal Capitalist Reforms" edited by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
In the new issue of Capital and Class, you can find my review.

“Perché la Francia è la Francia”: l’Ue e i conti pubblici di Parigi - Il Fatto Quotidiano Negli ultimi giorni, il governo francese ha sorprendentemente ottenuto l’approvazione dei propri piani di spesa da parte di Bruxelles. L’esecutivo, recentemente insediato e guidato dal primo ministro ...

Stamattina è uscito sul Fatto Quotidiano questo mio pezzo in cui commento l'approvazione della Commissione Europea del budget francese. La Commissione sembra sempre soprassedere sulle violazioni francesi dei target, anche grazie alla capacità dei tecnici francesi nel dialogo con la Commissione

Great job opportunity in a great workplace!

Thanks a lot!

Application deadline: January 15, 2025

Special Call:

The MPIfG is offering a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in economic sociology or political economy, intended for researchers (f/m/d) from Palestine and Lebanon

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Thank you!!

Thank you Stephan!

Thank you Max :)

Chaos in the numbers – the strange case of France’s budget deficit A no-confidence vote triggered by a dispute over the French budget has led to the collapse of the country’s government. Camilla Locatelli writes that France’s fiscal challenges offer important less…

In case you are also following the French situation minute by minute, here is my take on its implications for EU fiscal governance for the @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

We are looking very much forward to hear about it!!

However, the current government is trying to shutdown this awareness in a very clumsy, yet dangerous way. In the last months, the government has been actively restricting spaces for dissent (not only in this field) and discrediting the voices asking for change and reflection on machismo in Italy.

Can I be added? :)