Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle

Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business. He specializes in evolutionary political economy, institutional economics, and agent-based modeling across micro-meso-macro scales, with particular focus on capitalist development, platform capitalism, and social ecological transformation.

Education:

• Habilitation in Political Economy (Privatdozent) from Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Doctorate in social and economic sciences (Dr.rer.soc.oec.) from Vienna University of Technology
• Diploma in economics and computer science (Mag.rer.soc.oec) from Vienna University of Technology

Research Interests: His work integrates evolutionary theory with political economic analysis, exploring complexity in social systems, platform capitalism's structural dynamics, and pathways toward post-monetary societies through computational simulations. He investigates how planetary-scale computation reshapes economic power and how democratic planning could enable social ecological transitions.

Teaching:

• Bachelor course: "Sustainable Business: Advanced Study and Application"
• Master program SEEP (Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy)
• Local program director for Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree EPOG-JM

Projects: Leads the EPOG-JM Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (2025-2029), previously directed the "Society after money" simulation project (2018-2022), and contributed to EU-funded Welfare/Wealth/Work for Europe research (2012-2016).

Editorial Roles:

• Associate editor at Review of Evolutionary Political Economy
• Research area coordinator at EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy)