Tag Archives: Germany

Is the United States the Champion of Global Finance or its Victim? A New Look at the Fed’s Low-inflation Policy

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

By Arie Krampf* My article “Monetary Power Reconsidered: The Struggle between the Bundesbank and the Fed over Monetary Leadership”, recently published in International Studies Quarterly, contributes to the burgeoning literature that challenges the US-hegemony hypothesis in the global financial sub-order. It … Continue reading →

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The Growth of Shadow Banking and State-Finance Relations

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

by Matthias Thiemann* How can we understand the growth of a system of credit provisioning outside of the realm of bank regulation since the 1970s which linked non-banks and banks in a convoluted system of market-based banking, securitization and wholesale … Continue reading →

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Are Entrepreneurs Dangerous to the Market Economy more than Marxists?

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

Yes — asserts regarding the odd question in the title one of the founders of Ordoliberalism Professor Franz Böhm: “The entrepreneurs […] in contrast with their emphatic declarations in favour of the market economy, are more inclined, at least, to … Continue reading →

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German New Economic Sociology and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

The new much-anticipated discussion paper by John Wilkinson (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro) provides a thoughtful and comprehensive survey of German new economic sociology with a special focus on the contributions of the Max Planck Institute for the Study … Continue reading →

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Commercialization and the Far Right: Consuming and Constituting Extremism

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

by Cynthia Miller-Idriss* Advertisers and marketers have long known that brands and commercial products are deeply intertwined with individuals’ identities. But with few exceptions, mainstream social scientists have been slow to acknowledge that economic objects can have constitutive power for … Continue reading →

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How 19th century finance and housing associations shaped 20th century housing regimes in Germany and the United States

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Oleg Komlik

Why has Germany become a country of tenants with a housing policy directed at private and public rental construction? On the other hand, why has the United States turned into a homeownership country? In an interesting article, Sebastian Kohl (University … Continue reading →

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The “responsible”, the “irresponsible” and the Political Economy of the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Oleg Komlik

There are “irresponsible” countries (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain) which caused the current crisis; and there are “responsible” governments (Germany), which for some reason are asked to repay others’ debts and have the right to refuse to bail “irresponsibles” out and to insist the … Continue reading →

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In economic policymaking ideas matter. But how and whose? Campbell and Pedersen have insightful answers

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

John Maynard Keynes has famously said: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood.” In politics, policymaking and in the economy, ideas matter indeed. … Continue reading →

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Futures and ethnographies of ‪neoliberalism‬

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

The special issue of Cultural Anthropology “Futures of ‪Neoliberalism‬” (open access) offers theoretically-astute and fine-grained ethnographic analyses of the effects of profound changes across the Globe in various fields: workers’ wageless and disrupted life in ‪‎Brazil‬, governance of young right-extremists in … Continue reading →

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Democratic pressure lead to abolition of ‪‎university‬ ‪tuition‬ fee in ‪‎Germany‬. This ‪‎neoliberal‬ experiment contributed to increasing educational and income ‪‎inequality‬

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

During the past eight years, university tuition fees were introduced into most German federal states as under Germany’s federal system, state governments run education policy. Yet during the last months, as a result of political processes and increasing public pressure … Continue reading →

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The Future of Good Jobs and Labor Unions in the Service Economy

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

The shift to service-based economy has often been accompanied by the expansion of low wage and insecure employment. Many consider the effects of this shift inevitable. But is there another way? Virginia Doellgast (LSE) has conducted an impressive study of … Continue reading →

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Varieties of Liberalization: Politics of Social Solidarity and Institutional Changes in Labor Market

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

A leading political scientist and institutional scholar Kathleen Thelen (MIT) examines in her new excellent book Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing … Continue reading →

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Financialization, New Investment Funds, and Labour: An International Comparison

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Financialization, New Investment Funds, and Labour: An International Comparison provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of New Investment Funds —private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds—and their impact upon labour and employment. Several countries are selected for in-depth treatment: US, UK, … Continue reading →

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Varieties of Capitalism classification is not applicable to Asia

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

“Asian business systems: institutional comparison, clusters and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems theory” (open access paper) presents an institutional comparison of 13 major Asian business systems—China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Korea, … Continue reading →

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Lords of Finance and the New Lombard Street

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Oleg Komlik

While the world is struggling with the consequences of the 2007-8 financial crisis and many efforts are invested to find out (or to conceal) its causes — history is calling on us. Two recently published books provide insightful and eye-opening … Continue reading →

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