Greening the Economy: Towards a New Political Economy

GREENING THE ECONOMY:

TOWARDS A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY

FRIDAY- June 2nd

OPENING SESSION

1:00 pm to 1:50 pm Introductions and welcome from Basak Kus and Gregory Jackson

• Basak Kus, "Towards a Green Political Economy"

1:50 to 2:00 pm Coffee break

PANEL 1

2 pm to 3:30 pm

Chair: Basak Kus

Malcolm Fairbrother (Umeå University, Sweden) and Tim Bartley (Washington State University in St Louis, USA) 

“Toward a Sociology of Environmental Improvements” 

Gunnar Trumbull (Harvard Business School, USA) 

“Climate Competition: The Green Transition as Industrial Policy” 

 Matthew Soener (University of Illinois – Champaign/Urbana, USA) 

“Is Secular Stagnation Good News for the Climate? Rethinking the Relationship between Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions”

COFFEE BREAK 20 min

PANEL 2 

3:50 pm-5:20 pm

Chair: Elke Schuessler

Piotr Stankiewicz, (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) and Dominik Zieliński

“Technology blind? Net-zero strategies of emission-intensive companies in Poland” 

Kennet Lynggaard (Roskilde University, Denmark), Martin B. Carstensen & Peter Triantafillou

“From crisis to emergency: The political economy of the discursive construction of the climate crisis” 

Johanna Mair, Sébastien Mena and Ignas Bruder (Hertie School, Berlin) 

“Greening democratically? Alternative food systems in Germany” 

COFFEE BREAK 20 min

5:40 pm to 6:25 pm- In Conversation with Neil Fligstein (UC Berkeley)

7 pm - Conference Dinner

Hasir Restaurant

Nürnberger Str. 46, 10789 Berlin

SATURDAY

PANEL 3 

9:30 am to 11 am

Chair: Gunnar Trumbull

 Julia Bartosch, Manuel Nicklich, Gregory Jackson

“Employee Empowerment and Climate Transition”

Gary Lynch-Wood (University of Manchester, UK) and David Williamson

“Ecological Modernisation and the Role of Regulation and Regulatory Politics: A New Interpretation of an Ongoing Problem.” 

Hanna Schwander and Jonas Firscher (Humboldt Universität Berlin) 

“The Driving Factors behind Climate Change Mitigation Policies - Electoral or Interest Group Politics?  A Review of Competing Arguments.” 

COFFEE BREAK 20 min

PANEL 4 

11:20 am to 12:30 pm

Chair: Jette Steen Knudsen

Jose Maria Valenzuela (Oxford University, UK) 

“Balancing Power: Managing the Grid and Political Expectations” 

Isik Ozel (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain) 

Between New Extractivism and Green Industrial Policy: The New Pink Tide in Latin America 

LUNCH BREAK 60 min

PANEL 5 

1:30 pm to 3 pm

Chair: Matthew Soener

Daniel Kinderman (University of Delaware, US), Alwyn Lim (Singapore Management University)

“Can CSR Associations help 'Green' the Economy? Evidence from Business for Social Responsibility” 

Elke Schuessler (Johannes Kepler University Linz), Oliver Laasch, Nora Lohmeyer, Sarah Ashwin

“Institutionalizing the Responsible Management Logics in Sustainability Transitions: A Multi-Level Perspective” 

Emma Aisbett (Australian National University), Wyatt Raynal, Bruce Jones, Ralf Steinhauser

“International Green Economy Collaborations: Scaling the Global Energy Transition?” 

COFFEE BREAK 20 min

PANEL 6

3:20 pm to 5:00 pm

Chair: David Levi-Faur

Jared Finnegan (UCL, UK) and Jonas Meckling (UC-Berkeley, USA) 

“Fighting the Future: Short-Term Investors and Business Opposition to Climate Policy” 

Geoffrey Wood, (Western University, Canada), Neil Kellard, Alexandros Kontonikas, Michael Lamla, Stefano Maiani

“Institutional Settings and Financing Green Innovation” 

Rami Kaplan (Tel Aviv University, Isreal), David L. Levy (University of Massachusetts, Boston) 

“Can Finance Save the World from the Climate Crisis?” 

 Ritwick Ghosh (Arizona State University, USA), Stephanie Barral and Fanny Guillet

“Politics of ecological neutrality: a cross-national analysis of biodiversity offsetting policies” 

5:10 pm – 6:10 pm In Conversation with Kathy Hochstetler (LSE) and Juliet Schor (Boston College)

Free evening in Berlin

SUNDAY

PANEL 7 

9:30 am to 11 am

Chair: Isik Ozel

Anja Kirsch and Tobias Zimmermann (Freie University Berlin, Germany) 

“A just transition for autoworkers? E-mobility and restructuring in transatlantic comparison” 

Jette Steen Knudsen, Tufts University, USA and Beth DeSombre (Wellesley)

“What Difference Do Sustainability Reports Make? Port Greening in the World’s Busiest Ports” 

Elena Hofferberth (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Cédric Durand, Matthias Schmelzer

“Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within ecological limits.” 

COFFEE BREAK 20 min

PANEL 8 

11:20 am to 12:50 pm

Chair: Malcolm Fairbrother

Milan Babic (Roskilde University, Denmark), Daniel Mertens (Osnabrück) 

“On the way to a ‘geoeconomic’ decarbonization? Energy shocks and German pathways to net zero”   

Gerhard Schnyder (Loughborough University, UK), Anna Grosman (Loughborough University, UK), Aldo Musacchio (Brandeis University, UK)  

“State Ownership and Climate Change: A Curse or a Blessing?” 

 Elena C. Pierard (Oxford University, UK) and Jose Maria Valenzuela

“Subsidy-takers and the global reach of innovation: An imbalanced deal between the state and global corporations” 

12:50 to 1 pm- Closing remarks

1:30 pm - Conference Lunch in Beer Garden

Luise biergarten

Königin-Luise-Straße 40 - 42, 14195 Berlin