Knowledge Unbound Episode 20| October 23rd 2024 | Language: german

#20: Kapitalismus und Moral: Historische Perspektiven auf Markt und Staat

In this episode of ‘Knowledge Unbound’, we talk to Jürgen Finger from the German Historical Institute in Paris and Lars Döpking from the German Historical Institute in Rome about the history of capitalism and how states have tried and are trying to regulate the markets.
While Jürgen Finger is researching France and the Paris Stock Exchange in the 19th century, Lars Döpking in Rome is investigating the new economic policies that were discussed in Italy at the end of the 1970s in order to save the country from ruin.
How did France manage to regulate the illegal markets in the 19th century? What measures did Italy take in the 1970s? What role did economic research institutes play in this? What can we learn from the past for today's markets and crises?

Knowledge Unbound Episode 18 | May 8th 2024 | Language: german

#18: Eingesperrt?! Strafrechtsreformen in Deutschland und im kolonialen Indien

In this episode of our " Knowledge Unbound" podcast, Michaela Dimmers from the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies in New Delhi and Richard Wetzell from the German Historical Institute in Washington give us insights into the history of various criminal justice systems and the development of prisons. Richard Wetzell will tell us more about his research on criminal justice reform in Germany at the end of the 19th century and during the 20th century, which was particularly influenced by the ideas of the legal scholar Franz von Liszt. In addition, together with Michaela Dimmers, we will take a look at the function and development of prisons in colonial India. We pay particular attention to changes in juvenile criminal law.