Inaugural Conference of the 2025/2026 Master's and PhD Programs in Political Economy

September 19, 2025

2025 Iscte – Building 4, Auditorium 306

2:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Free admission

Iscte will host the inaugural conference for its Master's and PhD Programs in Political Economy on September 19. The event will take place in Auditorium 306 (Building 4), from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM.

The conference will feature a presentation by Professor Lucio Baccaro, titled "Comparative Political Economy and the Growth Model Perspective."

Professor Lucio Baccaro holds a PhD in Management and Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in Labor Relations from the University of Pavia. He has been the director of the Max Planck Institute since 2018 and has been an Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva since 2020. Since 2024, he has also held the title of Honorary Professor of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His academic career includes stints at institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Geneva, as well as a prominent role as a senior researcher at the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Professor Lucio Baccaro is a political economist whose current research focuses on growth models, an innovative approach to analyzing comparative capitalism, of which he is a leading proponent. His research in this area covers topics such as common trends and national specificities in patterns of growth or stagnation, the politics of different growth models, the interaction between national and international economic conditions, and the impact of national models on the possibility of Eurozone reform.

Previously, he dedicated himself to the study of the comparative political economy of labor relations and labor markets, as well as the empirical outcomes of deliberative public policy-making processes.

This event is a unique opportunity to deepen the academic debate on the contemporary challenges of Political Economy and to learn about the academic and scientific projects that underpin the postgraduate programs.