Scholars
Isabel Oakes
University of Oxford
Based in
Germany
Europe
I am a PhD student in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford looking at the intellectual roots of the ‘eco-social market economy’ in post-war Germany. My research combines intellectual, environmental and economic history to understand German environmental policy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I am currently based in Berlin where I am a visiting researcher at the SCRIPTS cluster of excellence at the Free University of Berlin. I am also a research assistant for the Oxford Martin School programme on Changing Global Orders, focusing on the History of Food Security and Political Economy.
Country(ies) of Specialty
GermanyFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics HistoryPublications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Books Reviews
December 2023. Climate Obstruction (Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman, Kristi M. Jylhä, 2023)’, Journal of Energy History 11.
October 2023. ‘Ordoliberal Orthodoxy?’ Review of Raphaël Fèvre, ‘A Political Economy of Power’, Radical Philosophy. 215: 99–101.
Other Works
August 24, 2022. ‘A History of Green Ordoliberalism.’ Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. https://jhiblog.org/2022/08/24/a-history-of-green-ordoliberalism/
November 14, 2021. Oakes, I. and Küsters, A. ‘Lessons from the Past? How Ordoliberal Competition Theory Can Address Market Power in the Digital Age’. Stigler Center, University of Chicago School of Business. https://www.promarket.org/2021/11/14/ordoliberal-lessons-competition-tech-platformsantitrust-germany/
November 26, 2021. ‘Max Weber’s Influence on German Economic Thought in the Twentieth Century’. Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Blog. https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/maxwebers-influence-on-germaneconomic-thought-in-the-twentieth-century