Dr A. Wigger (Angela)
Associate professor - International Relations
Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9108
6500 HK NIJMEGEN
Angela Wigger is specialised in the discipline of Global Political Economy and researches capitalist crises and responses from a historical materialist perspective. Focal points are the geopolitics of EU industrial and antitrust policy, industrial re-shoring attempts, the "competitiveness" fetish, internal devaluation and debt-led accumulation in the age of rentier capitalism.
Angela co-edits the book series Progress in Political Economy, the journal Capital&Class, chairs the supervisory board of the Centre for Research of Multinational Corporations (SOMO), and is a Euromemogroup member.
She wrote "The Politics of European Competition Regulation. A Critical Political Economy Perspective" (with H.Buch-Hansen, Routledge) and published in journals like New Political Economy, New Political Science, RIPE, JCMS, Economy&Society, Globalizations, Geoforum, Capital&Class, Ephemera, and many more. Her PhD was titled Competition for Competitiveness. The Politics of Transformation of the EU Competition Regime (2008).
Recent work:
2023: The new EU industrial policy and deepening structural asymmetries: Smart Specialisation not so smart. Journal of Common Market Studies 61(1): 20-37.
2022: Continuing to fight the beast of the apocalypse: Reasons for a critical political economy perspective. Global Political Economy 1(1):188–96
2021: Shadow banking and the rise of global debt. In Critical Finance Studies/Routledge. With R. Fernandez
2021: Housing as a site of accumulation in Amsterdam and the creation of surplus populations. Geoforum 126(Nov).
2019: The new EU Industrial Policy: Authoritarian Neoliberal Structural Adjustment and the Case for Alternatives. Globalizations (16)3.
2018: Debunking the myth of ordoliberal influence on European integration. Hart Publishing
2016: Lehman Brothers in the Dutch offshore financial centre: The role of shadow banking in increasing leverage and facilitating debt. Economy&Society 45(3-4). With R. Fernandez
- Capitalism, Crises, Industrial Policy and Debt-Led Accumulation