Angela Wigger

Angela Wigger (born 2 January 1975) is a political economist at the Political Science department at the Radboud University in the Netherlands.

She specialises in the political economy of global capitalism, with a particular focus on capitalist crises and their political management. Focal points are the revitalisation of industrial policy and its financialisation, debt-led accumulation under rentier capitalism, the fetishisation of "competitiveness", and the weaponisation of antitrust policy in the context of intensifying geo-economic rivalries. As the US, China, and the EU contest economic dominance through subsidies and investor derisking, strategic trade instruments, and the securitisation of supply chains, most visibly in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, batteries, and critical raw materials, her work interrogates how these rivalries, increasingly articulated through the idiom of the green transition, are reshaping regulatory regimes, reconfiguring accumulation structures, and generating new modalities of crisis governance.

Angela Wigger has conducted extensive research on capitalist restructuring of postwar Europe, industrial relations and the neoliberalisation of EU competition regulation, and financialisation processes. She is the co-author of The Politics of European Competition Regulation. A Critical Political Economy Perspective, with H. Buch-Hansen [1], and she has published amongst others in journals such as New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, New Political Sciences, Capital & Class, Journal of European Integration, Comparative European Politics, Economy & Society and the Journal of International Relations and Development, Geoforum, Globalizations, Policy Studies, or Politics & Governance.

She has worked at the Political Science Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2003 to 2007, where she obtained her PhD. Her dissertation was titled 'Competition for Competitiveness. The Politics of Transformation of the EU Competition Regime' – with Prof. dr. Henk Overbeek and Prof. dr. Andreas Nölke as supervisors. She received a master's degree (cum laude) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

She appears in Dutch and international media regularly.

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