Info — Kurt Huebner

I trained as an economist, with a minor in Political Science, at the University of Mannheim in Germany. After graduation and a brief stint as a research assistant, I moved to the Free University of Berlin where I had the chance to work with Elmar Altvater for a couple of years. The result was a joint first book (with Michael Stanger) ‘Alternativen jenseits des Kapitalismus’ (1982) that sparked my interest in comparative political economy.

Over the years, my work has focused on topics of global political economy (main book: ‘Der Globalisierungskomplex’, 1996) and also on the relations between institutions and capitalist growth dynamics. My dissertation (‘Theorie der Regulation’) was an early contribution, which later turned into the variety of capitalism-approaches to which I also added some pieces in regards to innovation regimes.

I spent quite some time on the area of sustainability and climate policies in the framework of institutional political economy (see my ‘National Pathways to Low Carbon Emission Policies’, 2018).

Another significant line of my research deals with currency regimes (the Euro in particular) as well as with trade policies.

^{Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration and Global Political Economy, Institute for European Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia}