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Research — Max Krahé

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I currently work on three research projects: the relationship between capitalism and democracy, the epistemology of sustainable finance, and the economic and political history of the 1970s in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States. How have past thinkers analysed and described the relationship between capitalism and democracy? What is it? What should it be? My dissertation, supervised by John Roemer (chair), David Grewal, and Douglas Rae, was a first attempt to answer these questions. In it I observed that the majority of past thinkers saw the two in conflict with another. The chapter surveying past interpretations of the democracy-capitalism nexus is now published in History of Political Thought. Analysing their relationship in the North Atlantic core since WWII, I argued that their relationship is akin to that of water and oil: capable of temporary emulsion, but tending towards separation. For an illustration of this simile, see this working paper offering a stylised history

Research I currently work on three research projects: the relationship between capitalism and democracy, the epistemology of sustainable finance, and the economic and political history of the 1970s in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States. The relationship between capitalism and democracy How have past thinkers analysed and described the relationship between capitalism and democracy? What is it? What should it be? My dissertation , supervised by John Roemer (chair), David Grewal, and Douglas Rae, was a first attempt to answer these questions. In it I observed that the majority of pas

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