dr. A. Wigger (Angela)

Angela Wigger specialises in the political economy of global capitalism, with a particular focus on capitalist crises and their political management in an era of intensifying geoeconomic rivalry. As the US, China, and the EU contest economic dominance through subsidies and derisking investors, strategic trade instruments, and the securitisation of supply chains, notably critical raw materials and rare earths, her work interrogates how these rivalries, often articulated through the green transition, reshape regulatory regimes, reconfigure accumulation structures, and produce new modalities of crisis governance that remain deeply embedded in the contradictions of global capitalism.

The revitalisation of industrial policy and its financing, debt-led accumulation in the era of rentier capitalism, the "competitiveness" fetish, and the role of antitrust policy are focal points in the analysis of broader transformations in global capitalism.

Her monograph The Politics of European Competition Regulation: A Critical Political Economy Perspective (co-authored with H. Buch-Hansen, Routledge/RIPE, 2011) remains a key reference in the field.

Angela studied Political Sciences, Economics and Sociology from the University of Bern, and a Master's degree (cum laude) in Political Sciences from VU Amsterdam, where she also completed her PhD dissertation "Competition for Competitiveness: The Politics of Transformation of the EU Competition Regime" (2008).

Her work has appeared in journals including New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Economy and Society, Capital and Class, and Global Political Economy, among others. She is an editor of Capital & Class and of the book series Progress in Political Economy, former Chair (2017–2019) of the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN), and currently chairs the Supervisory Board of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) in Amsterdam.

• Capitalism, Crises, Industrial Policy and Debt-Led Accumulation