dr. A. Wigger (Angela)

Universitair hoofddocent - Internationale Betrekkingen

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angela.wigger@ru.nl

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Angela Wigger specialises in Global Political Economy, researching capitalist crises and crises responses from a historical materialist perspective. Focal points are the geopolitics of EU industrial and antitrust policy, its financing, industrial re-shoring, the "competitiveness" fetish, internal devaluation and debt-led accumulation in the era of rentier capitalism.

Angela holds leadership positions as co-editor of the book series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) and the journal Capital & Class, and chairs the supervisory board of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO).

Angela 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, Global Political Economy, Politics & Governance, and many more.

Her PhD was titled "Competition for Competitiveness. The Politics of Transformation of the EU Competition Regime" (2008).

Selected Recent Work:

2025

Benchmarking labour competitiveness: Institutionalising unit labour cost surveillance in the EU. Policy Studies.

The new EU industrial policy: Crowding in financial capital, crowding out democracy and labour. In A. Bieler & V. Maccarone (eds.), Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis.

The Green Deal’s Achilles’ Heel. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin.

2024

The new EU industrial policy: Opening frontiers for financial capital. Politics and Governance 12: 1-16.

2023

The new EU industrial policy and deepening structural asymmetries: Smart specialisation not so smart. JCMS 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.

Housing as a site of accumulation in Amsterdam and the creation of surplus populations. Geoforum 126: 451-60.

Onderzoeksthema

Capitalism, Crises, Industrial Policy and Debt-Led Accumulation

Trefwoorden: Global Political Economy, International Relations, European Union politics, competition/antitrust politics, economic crises and political responses, solidarity economy, neoliberalism, anarchism, transnational experts/expertise, debt, financialisation, and investment politics.

Publicaties

Belangrijke publicaties

2023: The new EU industrial policy and deepening structural asymmetries: Smart Specialisation not so smart. Journal of Common Market Studies 61(1):20-37. Volledige tekst
2019: The new EU Industrial Policy: Authoritarian Neoliberal Structural Adjustment and the Case for Alternatives.Globalizations (16)3: 353-369. Volledige tekst
2021: Housing as a site of accumulation in Amsterdam and the creation of surplus populations. Geoforum 126(Novemer): 451-460. Volledige tekst
2016: Lehman Brothers in the Dutch offshore financial centre: The role of shadow banking in increasing leverage and facilitating debt. Economy and Society 45(3-4): 407-430. With R. Fernandez. Volledige tekst
2011: The Politics of European Competition Regulation. A Critical Political Economy Perspective. New York and London: Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. With by H. Buch-Hansen. Volledige tekst

Publicatielijsten

Onderzoeksbeurzen en -prijzen

Projecten

PhD Supervision (completed) BART-JAAP VERBEEK Project ‘The Making of the EU Investment Policy. A Critical Political Economy Perspective'. Successfully defended in September 2021. MARTHA EHRICH Project "Neither new, nor heterarchic. Inter-organizational networks throughout the history of the Dutch paper and board industry". Successfully defended in October 2020. BERND BONFERT Project "Allied Against Austerity Transnational Cooperation in European Anti-Austerity Movement". Successfully defended in September 2020.
Temporary Supervision: GERARDO COSTABILE NICOLETTA Project "Setting the limits of the Possible Politics of expertise in the Making of Neoliberal Europe", Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy. Visiting fellow at the Radboud University from April to June 2015. ADRIANO COZZOLINO Project "State transformations and the making of the neoliberal order in Italy, 1976-2016", Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy. Visiting fellow at the Radboud University from May to July 2017.
- PhD Supervision (ongoing) INDRA RÖMGENS Project "Political Economy of EU corporate tax harmonisation". Started in October 2017. ESTHER WAHABU Project "Safeguarding Trust in Climate Change Mitigation Projects in Ghana". Started in March 2022. NIKLAS HOLZHAUER Project: "The Completion of the Capital Markets Union. A Single Green Market for Capital?" TOM LOGEL Project: "The transformation of state aid law into an instrument for guiding national industrial policies" (with Straatsburg University) HARDIAN WHAYU WIDIANTO Project: "The Political Economy of the Jakarta Bay Development Project".
Book Series Editor "Progress in Political Economy" The Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Book Series with Manchester University Press provides a space for innovative and radical thinking in political economy, covering interdisciplinary scholarship from the perspectives of critical political economy, historical materialism, feminism, political ecology, critical geography, heterodox economics, decolonialism and racial capitalism. We welcome manuscripts that realise the very best new research from established scholars and early-career scholars alike. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/progress-in-political-economy/

dr. A. Wigger (Angela)

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