Coming to You Live

Poverty is surprisingly persistent in the USA. The article explores the question of whether government investments for children could weaken the cycle.

As space is increasingly becoming the scene of commercial and colonial interests, international space law is also changing. The presentation traces these developments and asks how the understanding of space and celestial bodies as common property and as the common heritage of humanity is changing.

Christina Cross shows how much origin shapes our everyday lives and why the same family forms can still lead to completely different opportunities. In Inherited Inequality, she makes visible why Black and White children in the US often grow up in two different realities. Her book reading event at the "Lost Weekend" invites everyone to join in the discussion and take away new perspectives.

Is the intergenerational contract currently being lost when it comes to assets? A transatlantic comparison shows how wealth creation and inequality have shifted for baby boomers, Gen X and millennials. And why it has political explosive power.

Stratification and embedded markets. Patterns and legitimacy of primary inequality: The presentation highlights how the social foundations of markets determine who benefits, who does not — and why primary inequality persists.

The Tax-Welfare Nexus: Explaining Support for Reform in Times of Fiscal Stress

Bucking Backlash? Why the Republicans' hyper-inegalitarian tax and budget bill passed

At LMU Munich, a new conference is negotiating the pressing question of our present day: What does wealth do to us and what do we do with wealth?