MaxPo Fifth-Anniversary

Destabilizing Orders – Understanding the Consequences of Neoliberalism

Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies

January 12–13, 2018

International Conference

Destabilizing Orders – Understanding the Consequences of Neoliberalism

Through the long postwar period, crisis was a conjec­tural phenomenon, excep tional in a normalcy of growth and social progress. Many key concepts of the so cial sciences – indeed, our understanding of democracy, of embedded markets, of enlightened electorates, bene­volent po litical elites, and problem­solving pro gressive alliances – seem inapt for under standing the current societal upheaval.

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, we have witnessed majority alliances breaking down, populism returning on a grand scale both in the Western world and globally, and the new patterns of social mobiliza­ tion erupting into cha otic and sometimes violent protest. The forces that underpinned the framework of welfare capitalism seem obsolete in the face of financial and political elites that are paradoxically both disconnected from national territory and sometimes in direct alliance with nationalist and pop ulist movements. Politics of resentment, politics of place, and new politics of class interact in ways that we do not yet un derstand. Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that neolibera­lism has spawned authoritarianism. At the same time, these processes are not at all new, but must be put in the context of the socioeconomic and cultural cleavages produced by the shift to neoliberalism since the 1970s.

The conference addresses the different facets of social destabilization that we observe today. It marks the fifth anni versary of the founding of MaxPo, the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Cop ing with Instability in Market Societies. Presentations will analyze different as pects of the overarching phenomenon of social destabilization, trying to iden tify common threats in the diverse de­velopments currently being observed.

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Arrival between 9:00–9:25 Coffee – tea – pastries

Welcoming Remarks

Frédéric Mion Director of Sciences Po

Pascal Hector Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Paris

Financial Markets between Stability and Instability

Jens Beckert Chair

Donald MacKenzieThe Mundane Political Economy of Finance

Adam Goldstein Individuation and Social Stratification

Olivier GodechotThe Great Separation

Lunch

Inequalities of the Western World

Olivier Godechot Chair

Branko MilanovićRecent Trends in Global Income Inequality and Their Political Implications

Jacob Hacker America’s Peculiar Mix of Plutocracy and Populism

Dylan John RileyTheses on Fascism and Trumpism

Social Science at the Crossroads: Round Table

Jenny Andersson Chair

Marion Fourcade

Marie Laure Salles-Djelic

Wolfgang Streeck

Cornelia Woll

Concluding Drinks

Coffee Break

Colliding Geographies: Class, Place, and Identity after Brexit and Trump

Chris Howell Chair

Dorit GevaAnti­decolonization Parties in the Neoliberal Field

Colin Hay Brexit and the (Multiple) Paradoxes of Neoliberalism

Will DaviesSabotaging Progress: The Cultural Economy of Resentment in Late Neoliberalism

Conference Program

9:30–9:55

13:00–15:00

15:00–15:30

15:30–17:30

12:00–13:00

10:00–12:00

15:00–15:30

13:00–15:00

15:30–17:30

18:00

Friday, January 12, 2018

Arrival between 9:00–9:25 Coffee – tea – pastries

Political Economy in an Age of Permanent Austerity: Why Is There No Alternative?

Lucio Baccaro Chair

Armin SchäferThe Poor Representation of the Poor

Mark Blyth How the Menu Gets Set: Permanent Austerity, Political Parties, and Growth Regimes

Adam ToozeTINA – The Various Meanings of a Contested Term

Lunch

Political Elites and Experts

Marie Laure Salles-Djelic Chair

Stefan SvallforsPolitics for Hire: Partisan Policy Professionals in the Age of Liberalization

Gerassimos Moschonas Global Markets, European Constraints: The Long Destabilization of Social Democracy in Historical Perspective

Stephanie MudgeCan Progressive Experts Make Progressive Publics?

Coffee Break

9:30–12:00

12:00–13:00

Saturday, January 13, 2018