{"id":679,"date":"2026-02-05T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jec2026.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:36:27","slug":"angela-wigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jec2026.com\/eu\/angela-wigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Wigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row us_custom_a53b8b93 height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_grid cols_1-3 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\" style=\"--columns-gap:1.5rem;\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h3>Angela Wigger<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small\"><\/div><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_grid cols_1-3 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\" style=\"--columns-gap:1.5rem;\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-post-elm post_image us_custom_ff58f711 stretched\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/jec2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/angela-wigger.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jec2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/angela-wigger.jpg 544w, https:\/\/jec2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/angela-wigger-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jec2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/angela-wigger-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Associate Professor of Global Political Economy, Radboud University, the Netherlands.<br \/>\nWigger 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 \u2018competitiveness\u2019 fetish, internal devaluation, and debt-led accumulation in the era of rentier capitalism. <\/p>\n<p>Her most work investigates the cascading layers of the EU&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#038; Class journal.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angela Wigger 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 \u2018competitiveness\u2019 fetish, internal devaluation, and debt-led accumulation in the era of rentier capitalism. 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