Education
She has worked at the Political Science Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2003-2007, where she obtained her Doctor of Philosophy.
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Angela Wigger
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As of 2015, she is primarily focused on analyzing the global economic crisis, crisis responses and political challenges to these responses. The politicization of debt and over-indebtedness within finance-led accumulation structures constitutes a focal point. Angela Wigger has conducted extensive research on capitalist restructuring of postwar Europe, industrial relations and the neoliberalisation of European Union competition regulation and financialisation processes in particular.
She is the co-author of Her dissertation was titled "Competition for Competitiveness.
The Politics of Transformation of the European Union Competition Regime" – with Professor doctor Henk Overbeek and Professor doctor
Andreas Nölke as supervisors. She received a Masters degree (cum laude) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
She appears in Dutch media regularly.
Politics
A Critical Political Economy Perspective, with H. Buch-Hansen and she has published amongst others in journals such as New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, or the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Membership
Steering board member of the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) European Sociological Association (European Space Agency)
Founding member of the Amsterdam Research Centre for International Political Economy (ARCIPE). Noard member of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO).
