Philip Blees

Philip Blees is a Research Assistant at the Competence Centre: Challenges and Resilience of Global Supply and Value Chains at HWR Berlin, where he works in Cluster A. With the support of a scholarship from the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, he is pursuing his PhD at the Université Paris Sorbonne Nord on the topic “Towards a Varieties of Socio-Economic Productivity Regimes Approach”. His research explores the intersections of economic growth, distribution, institutions, and innovation, particularly through a post-Keynesian lens. 

He holds a Master’s degree in Economic Policies for the Global Transition (EPOG+) with a specialization in International Macroeconomics and Governance from HWR Berlin, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Sorbonne Université, and Université Paris Cité. He previously studied economics at Freie Universität Berlin.

Research Interests

• Post-Keynesian economics
• Distributional conflict
• Growth regimes
• Endogenous technical change
• Institutions

Publications

Blees, P. (2026). Productivity growth and class struggle in a growth regime framework—a proposal for a varieties of productivity regimes approach applied to Germany and the US from 1991 to 2019. Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-026-00185-5

Contact

Mail: philip.blees(at)hwr-berlin.de
ORCID: 0009-0004-6103-8536