Associate Professor of Global Political Economy, Radboud University, the Netherlands.
Wigger specializes in capitalist crises and crisis responses from a historical materialist perspective. Her research examines the geopolitics of EU industrial and antitrust policy, industrial re-shoring strategies, the ‘competitiveness’ fetish, internal devaluation, and debt-led accumulation in the era of rentier capitalism.
Her most work investigates the cascading layers of the EU’s public-private financing architecture that derisks private capital through public guarantees, revealing how neoliberal supply-side oriented financial instruments empower financial capital as a gatekeeper over strategic investment decisions. She shows that EU industrial policy thereby outsources the pace and direction of climate transition to investor profitability calculations, while systematically undermining democratic oversight and accountability, and creating new dependencies on US capital markets.
Wigger has chaired of the supervisory board of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and co-edits the Progress in Political Economy book series and the Capital & Class journal.