In 2012, MaxPo set out to study how individuals, organizations and political systems attempt to cope with the high degree of strategic uncertainty in market societies. How do social life, the economy and politics reorganize to provide stability in a context where relationships, institutions and policies are torn between their original missions and economic imperatives? The findings produced in six research groups focus on new classification systems, the concentration of economic power and changing business–government relations, the transformation of social inequality in response to financialization and the way in which market societies envision the future. The themes correspond to the research groups led by the successive co-directors of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center, Marion Fourcade, Cornelia Woll, Olivier Godechot, and Jenny Andersson.
A conference taking place in Paris on October 21, 2022, will mark both the anniversary and the conclusion of the joint research endeavour that brought together the Max Planck Society and its Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne with Sciences Po in Paris and brings together the insights gathered on each of these topics over the last ten years. For more info please see the download links below.
To accompany the closing of the Center, MaxPo has published a final report which presents the research goals and achievements of MaxPo, its research projects, and its academic activities. This can be downloaded as a pdf file from the link below or a printed copy can be obtained by contacting info@maxpo.eu.
