The IPE Berlin at the Berlin School of Economics & Law
The Institute for International Political Economy Berlin (IPE) is concerned with the relation between the economy and political power in a globalised world, and the social implications that this raises.
The recurrence of serious financial crises, rising social inequality and a disregard for human rights indicate that conflicts involving economic and political interests have become more acute. This raises many urgent questions about the types of political and social regulation of the economy that would be desirable. In addition, since globalisation has depended on energy generated from non-renewable fossil fuels which poses a serious threat to the global climate, international political economy must be complemented by an international political ecology.
The IPE aims to promote interdisciplinary research drawing on economics, political science and sociology to deepen our understanding of these issues, and to make the results of this research available to individuals and groups who are active in political, social and economic initiatives.
News
Young Scholars Prize 2024 of the German Keynes Society for Marla Schiefeling
Marla Schiefeling, a graduate from the Master International Economics of the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) and the Double Degree Master Economic Policies in the Age of Globalisation (EPOG2) together with the University Sorbonne Paris North, has won the Young Scholars Prize of the German Keynes Society in 2024. She was awarded this prize for her Master thesis ‘Bilateral Swap Lines to the Periphery: Growth and Dependence in the Light of Balance-of-Payments Constraints and Financial Subordination’, which was supervised by IPE Professor Eckhard Hein. A shortened version of the Master thesis will soon be published as an IPE Working Paper.
IPE members mentioned in the Wall Street Journal
In the issue of 10 April, 2024, the Wall Street Journal refers in an article about the industrial policy competition between China and Germany to IPE members Helena Gräf and Salome Topuria and their article in EJEEP. Their study was first published as an IPE Working Paper.
Events
- 3 May 2024: future-fit economics: Mastermesse für zukunftsfähiges ökonomisches Denken
- 3 May 2024: Book launch: Feminist Political Economy – A Global Perspective
- 22 May 2024: IPE Political Economy Forum "Post-Pandemic Labor Dynamics in Argentinean Aviation"
- 14 November 2024: TA’raabet Conference on Gender "Gender and Fintech Entrepreneurship"
IPE Working Papers
- Leo Schlichter: Planning for Degrowth - How artificial intelligence and Big Data revitalize the debate on democratic economic planning, Working Paper, No 231/2024
- Stefan Schoppengerd: Hydrogen Corporatism and Working Time Reduction. Union Strategies in the Transformation of German Primary Steel Manufacturing, Working Paper, No 230/2024
- Cara Dabrowski, Sonia Kuhls: A Kaleckian approach to financialization and functional income distribution: Austria and Finland in comparative perspective, Working Paper, No 229/2024
- João Emboava Vaz: Impacts of US interest rates on growth, income distribution, and macroeconomic policy space in developing countries: a SFC supermultiplier model , Working Paper, No 228/2024
- Mads R. Hansen: Demand Regimes and the Business-Cycle: Feedback Effects between Capacity Utilization and Income Distribution Taking into Account Overhead Labor - SVAR-Estimates for Germany (2007 - 2021), Working Paper, No 227/2024
Books
- Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen: Kapitalismus am Limit – Öko-imperiale Spannungen, umkämpfte Krisenpolitik und solidarische Perspektiven. oekom, 2024.
- Mwilima, Harrison Kalunga: The European Union and Regional Integration in East Africa: Collective and Individual State Priorities Compared. Routledge, 2023.
- Michael Heine, Hansjörg Herr: Inflation – Lehren für heute aus Krisen von gestern, Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag, 2023
- Betzelt, Sigrid; Bode, Ingo; Parschick, Sarina; Albert, Andreas: Organisierte Zerrissenheit. Emotionsregimes und Interaktionsarbeit in Pflege und Weiterbildung. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag (Open Access), 2023.
- Eckhard Hein: Macroeconomics after Kalecki and Keynes: Post-Keynesian Foundations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023.