Isabel Oakes

Research Topic

Ordoliberalism and Environmental Economics (1945-70)

I am focusing on the intellectual and epistemological roots of "green consciousness" 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 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.