Álvaro Morcillo Laiz
@alvaroml.bsky.social
International & social theory | (Social) Science History | (German) Adjuncts | formerly @WZB_Berlin | @the_IAS | @CIDE_MX |
How does excessive wealth harm democracy?
Can hyper-wealth produce public goods?
How can we contain excessive wealth?
🔜👥Our conference will focus on these questions.
🗓️June 23-24
📍Budapest / online
Details:
👉 tinyurl.com/2u2cwcvv
Registration:
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Can hyper-wealth produce public goods?
How can we contain excessive wealth?
🔜👥Our conference will focus on these questions.
🗓️June 23-24
📍Budapest / online
Details:
👉 tinyurl.com/2u2cwcvv
Registration:
👉 tinyurl.com/vn7ttypu
June 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Patrimonialism is hot again! Join us on Thursday, May 15 at 16:00 CEST to learn how Weber would judge Trump, Orban and friends! With Steve Hanson, Jeff Kopstein, Klaus Schlichte and Tomila Lankina (tbc), among others.
www.weberscholars.net/2025/05/07/t...
www.weberscholars.net/2025/05/07/t...
May 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Die Diskussion um #Spitzenforscher spitzt sich zu!🙃
Abwerbe-Debatte: Wie offensive Töne der US-Wissenschaft helfen sollen
Prominente deutsche Ökonomen fordern ein „Meitner-Einstein-Programm“. Es soll dazu dienen, US-Spitzenforscher abzuwerben.
table.media
April 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Die Diskussion um #Spitzenforscher spitzt sich zu!🙃
Reposted by Álvaro Morcillo Laiz
We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming discussion on April 24th at 16:00 (CET) ""Spanish Barbarism". Weber and Simmel on Catholicism and on Spanish Colonialism" by Álvaro Morcillo. With @natcami.bsky.social and others tbc as discussants!
www.weberscholars.net/2025/04/01/o...
#Simmel #Weber
www.weberscholars.net/2025/04/01/o...
#Simmel #Weber
Online event: “Spanish Barbarism” – weberscholars
www.weberscholars.net
April 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming discussion on April 24th at 16:00 (CET) ""Spanish Barbarism". Weber and Simmel on Catholicism and on Spanish Colonialism" by Álvaro Morcillo. With @natcami.bsky.social and others tbc as discussants!
www.weberscholars.net/2025/04/01/o...
#Simmel #Weber
www.weberscholars.net/2025/04/01/o...
#Simmel #Weber
January 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
CEU Democracy Institute
@CEUDemInst
🔜 Don’t forget to register now and join us on Monday for this seminar with @MorcilloLaiz, Marlies Glasius, and @AndreasSchedler!
⏰ Dec 2, 4pm CET
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13
Details:
👉 events.ceu.edu/2024-12-02/p...
Registration:
👉 forms.office.com/e/KuZQpxPVYM
@CEUDemInst
🔜 Don’t forget to register now and join us on Monday for this seminar with @MorcilloLaiz, Marlies Glasius, and @AndreasSchedler!
⏰ Dec 2, 4pm CET
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13
Details:
👉 events.ceu.edu/2024-12-02/p...
Registration:
👉 forms.office.com/e/KuZQpxPVYM
The Power of Philanthropy in the Promotion of Democracy: Is OSF More Effective than USAID?
events.ceu.edu
November 29, 2024 at 6:10 PM
CEU Democracy Institute
@CEUDemInst
🔜 Don’t forget to register now and join us on Monday for this seminar with @MorcilloLaiz, Marlies Glasius, and @AndreasSchedler!
⏰ Dec 2, 4pm CET
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13
Details:
👉 events.ceu.edu/2024-12-02/p...
Registration:
👉 forms.office.com/e/KuZQpxPVYM
@CEUDemInst
🔜 Don’t forget to register now and join us on Monday for this seminar with @MorcilloLaiz, Marlies Glasius, and @AndreasSchedler!
⏰ Dec 2, 4pm CET
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13
Details:
👉 events.ceu.edu/2024-12-02/p...
Registration:
👉 forms.office.com/e/KuZQpxPVYM
Reposted by Álvaro Morcillo Laiz
Muster ohne Wert...
Bundestagsanhörung zum #WissZeitVG waren Arbeitgeberfestspiele ohne jegliche Balance und Ausgewogenheit.
Wie konnte es dazu kommen?
#IchBinHanna
Bundestagsanhörung zum #WissZeitVG waren Arbeitgeberfestspiele ohne jegliche Balance und Ausgewogenheit.
Wie konnte es dazu kommen?
#IchBinHanna
Hanna stand nicht auf der Gästeliste
"Die jungen Leute" kamen bei der Bundestags-Anhörung zum Wissenschaftzeitvertragsgesetz nur in Wortbeiträgen vor. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Ein Gastbeitrag von Lisa Janotta, Thomas Kirchner und Álvaro Morcillo.
Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2024/11/26/h...
"Die jungen Leute" kamen bei der Bundestags-Anhörung zum Wissenschaftzeitvertragsgesetz nur in Wortbeiträgen vor. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Ein Gastbeitrag von Lisa Janotta, Thomas Kirchner und Álvaro Morcillo.
Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2024/11/26/h...
November 26, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Muster ohne Wert...
Bundestagsanhörung zum #WissZeitVG waren Arbeitgeberfestspiele ohne jegliche Balance und Ausgewogenheit.
Wie konnte es dazu kommen?
#IchBinHanna
Bundestagsanhörung zum #WissZeitVG waren Arbeitgeberfestspiele ohne jegliche Balance und Ausgewogenheit.
Wie konnte es dazu kommen?
#IchBinHanna
Hanna stand nicht auf der Gästeliste
"Die jungen Leute" kamen bei der Bundestags-Anhörung zum Wissenschaftzeitvertragsgesetz nur in Wortbeiträgen vor. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Ein Gastbeitrag von Lisa Janotta, Thomas Kirchner und Álvaro Morcillo.
Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2024/11/26/h...
"Die jungen Leute" kamen bei der Bundestags-Anhörung zum Wissenschaftzeitvertragsgesetz nur in Wortbeiträgen vor. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Ein Gastbeitrag von Lisa Janotta, Thomas Kirchner und Álvaro Morcillo.
Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2024/11/26/h...
November 26, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Classics (!) must have a thick skin, but here they'd feel insulted: some of Walt Rostow's "ideas ran back to early social scientists such as Max Weber and Émile Durkheim". Particularly if compared to Robert McNamara, Rostow is an extreme case of perdurable hubris. foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Real Washington Consensus
Modernization theory and the delusions of American strategy.
foreignaffairs.com
November 2, 2023 at 10:56 AM
Classics (!) must have a thick skin, but here they'd feel insulted: some of Walt Rostow's "ideas ran back to early social scientists such as Max Weber and Émile Durkheim". Particularly if compared to Robert McNamara, Rostow is an extreme case of perdurable hubris. foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Zum Throwback Thursday möchte ich heute an die #BayreutherErklärung erinnern, mit der die Uni-Kanzler*innen 2019 lange vor #IchBinHanna ein Hohelied auf die Befristung der Wissenschaft gesungen und den Begriff von der Wissenschaft als "Qualifizierungssystem" geprägt haben.
www.uni-kanzler.de
October 26, 2023 at 3:11 PM
Zum Throwback Thursday möchte ich heute an die #BayreutherErklärung erinnern, mit der die Uni-Kanzler*innen 2019 lange vor #IchBinHanna ein Hohelied auf die Befristung der Wissenschaft gesungen und den Begriff von der Wissenschaft als "Qualifizierungssystem" geprägt haben.
Or how science policy is made in Germany. Quote is from Stephen Turner's "Mad Hazard".
October 27, 2023 at 9:25 AM
Or how science policy is made in Germany. Quote is from Stephen Turner's "Mad Hazard".
"I was put on a dept committee to study why or how much sociology was being disadvantaged by the decisions of the Dean… to hire in other departments. We found out immediately that much of the data that supposedly drove the decisions did not exist."
October 27, 2023 at 9:25 AM
"I was put on a dept committee to study why or how much sociology was being disadvantaged by the decisions of the Dean… to hire in other departments. We found out immediately that much of the data that supposedly drove the decisions did not exist."
"Merit was meaningless in a situation in which there were no opportunities to climb the prestige hierarchy to a better job, or even to get a job."
"Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory" by Stephen Turner.
"Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory" by Stephen Turner.
October 27, 2023 at 9:23 AM
"Merit was meaningless in a situation in which there were no opportunities to climb the prestige hierarchy to a better job, or even to get a job."
"Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory" by Stephen Turner.
"Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory" by Stephen Turner.
Die US-Politologin Wendy Brown knüpft an den deutschen Soziologen Max Weber an. Es geht um die Bedrohung der liberalen Demokratie.
taz.de/Wendy-Brown-...
taz.de/Wendy-Brown-...
October 23, 2023 at 8:34 AM
Die US-Politologin Wendy Brown knüpft an den deutschen Soziologen Max Weber an. Es geht um die Bedrohung der liberalen Demokratie.
taz.de/Wendy-Brown-...
taz.de/Wendy-Brown-...
Competition in science has a long tradition in Germany, fortunately. The reasons why Nazis failed to build the bomb before the US included "fierce competition over finite resources, bitter interpersonal rivalries, and ineffectual scientific management" #grundfinanzierung
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
Tracking the journey of a uranium cube
A mysterious object led two physicists to investigate the German quest and failure to build a working nuclear reactor during World War II.
pubs.aip.org
October 18, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Competition in science has a long tradition in Germany, fortunately. The reasons why Nazis failed to build the bomb before the US included "fierce competition over finite resources, bitter interpersonal rivalries, and ineffectual scientific management" #grundfinanzierung
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
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Off topic: Wann ziehen die realscientists um?
October 15, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Off topic: Wann ziehen die realscientists um?
"Follow the Money! Cómo usar los archivos para identificar el impacto de los donantes en las agendas de investigación." #twitterhistorians #humanidadesdigitais #cienciashumanas #digitalhumanities
October 9, 2023 at 10:16 AM
"Follow the Money! Cómo usar los archivos para identificar el impacto de los donantes en las agendas de investigación." #twitterhistorians #humanidadesdigitais #cienciashumanas #digitalhumanities
"Default" by Gregory Makoff is coming out with @Georgetown_UP and looks like a macroeconomic drama, but it's also about Argentina's debt and the fate of millions.
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Default-1
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Default-1
October 5, 2023 at 5:42 PM
"Default" by Gregory Makoff is coming out with @Georgetown_UP and looks like a macroeconomic drama, but it's also about Argentina's debt and the fate of millions.
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Default-1
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Default-1