A Prize for Students in Critical Political Economy

The Jörg-Huffschmid-Prize will be awarded again to outstanding work in critical political economy at master/diploma/PhD level in a European university for work done in English or German.

The call for submissions explicitly mentions research on economic planning. Here are the themes suggested in the call.

  • Political economy of green socialism/social-ecological transformation
  • Crisis of the German export model and new “armament Keynesianism”
  • Political economy of socialisation and the new planning debate
  • Concepts of feminist infrastructure socialism and care economy
  • Political economy of digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Globalisation or deglobalisation?
  • Financialisation and the regulation of financial markets

The submission deadline is April 1st, 2026. You can find the complete information here: https://euromemo.eu/jorg-huffschmid-preis-2026/