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This collection contains the Max Weber Programme Lectures recorded as videos and/or audio files (podcasts) from 2009 onwards, and other types of audio-visual material.

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Title:Granting rights to protect nature : possibilities and limitations Author(s):ALVIAR GARCIA, Helena Date:2024Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2024/03Abstract:For the last ten years and in the most diverse jurisdictions, there has been a movement to grant rights nature (either through constitutional and legal arrangements or judicial intervention). The adjudication of rights has ...
Title:Who wants wealth taxes? Author(s):ANSELL, BenDate:2024Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2024/02Abstract:Despite persistently high levels of wealth inequality across advanced democracies, inheritance tax rates have declined in recent decades and net wealth taxes largely remain theoretical. We argue that taxing inherited wealth ...
Title:Poles, blocs, worlds, and civilisations : geopolitics beyond the State Author(s):BURBANK, Jane; COOPER, FrederickDate:2024Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2024/01Abstract:The efforts of Russian propagandists to portray the invasion of Ukraine as a conflict between "Eurasian" and "Atlantic" blocs signals the vitality of trans-state and super-state affiliations in the political imagination ...
Title:Digital empires : the global battle to regulate technology Author(s):BRADFORD, AnuDate:2023Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2023/11Abstract:Across the globe, people dependent on digital technologies have become increasingly alarmed that their rapid adoption and transformation have ushered in an exceedingly concentrated economy where a few powerful companies ...
Title:Quo Vadis Familia? Author(s):ESPING-ANDERSEN, GostaDate:2023Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2023/11Abstract:A dominant perspective within family demography argues for the gradual demise of the family as individualism and postmodern values gain dominance. Very much based on my 2017 book Families in the 21st Century, I build on ...