Isabel Oakes

DPhil Student

isabel.oakes@lincoln.ox.ac.uk

Research Topic

I am focusing on the intellectual roots of the ‘eco-social market economy’ in post-war Germany, specifically on the influence of ordoliberalism and the Freiburg School of Economics on environmental policy making.

Supervisors: Ben Jackson Patricia Clavin

I completed my BA in International Relations at King's College London (2015-2018) and my MPhil in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford (2018-2020) before starting my DPhil in Modern European History in 2021. I am a Europeaum and a Hanseatic Scholar.

PUBLICATIONS

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.