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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

Germany

Focus areas of expertise

Climate policy and politics History

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Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

Küsters, A and Oakes, I. 2021. ‘Taming Giants: How Ordoliberal Competition Theory can Address Power in the Digital Age’. Journal of Contextual Economics. 141(3):149-199.
 Oakes, I. 2020. ‘Max Weber and Ordoliberalism: How Weber’s Kulturkritik Contributed to the Foundation of Ordoliberal Socio-Economic Thought’. Journal of Contextual Economics. 140(2): 177-204.

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