Global Capitalism and the Dynamics of Inequality

The Research Focus will center on questions of interdependency, connections and reciprocity between national and global inequality dynamics – both in the OECD world and in the "global south": are intra and inter-societal inequality reductions mutually exclusive? Must the reduction of inequalities in certain regions of the world go hand-in-hand with their increase in other societies? How do democracies (but also dictatorships) and capitalism function together? What descriptions can develop from an analysis of the capitalist (post-)modern era? And which concepts are suitable from an interdisciplinary perspective for describing, understanding and explaining them?

Spokesperson

• Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich
  (Institut für Soziologie, LMU)

Working Group

• Prof. Dr. Martin Geyer
  (Historisches Seminar, LMU)
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill
  (Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft (GSI), LMU)
• Prof. Dr. Clemens Pornschlegel
  (Institut für Deutsche Philologie, LMU)
• Prof. Dra. Uwe Sunde
  (Seminar für Bevölkerungsökonomie, LMU)

Further Events

• International workshop – "Capitalism and Democracy"
  (summer semester 2016)
• Lecture by Prof. Bob Jessop, Ph.D. – "From Rational Capitalism and Democracy to Political Capitalism and Post-Democracy"
  (winter semester 2016/17)
• International workshop – "Global Capitalism: Openings and Closures"
  (winter semester 2016/17)
• International Meeting – "Global Capitalism and the Dynamics of Inequality: New Problems, Old Concepts?"
  (summer semester 2017)