Thomas Kayzel
Bruno Latour Postdoctoral Fellow
My current research concerns an intellectual history of economic growth. More specifically, it investigates where the idea of limitless growth comes from. This idea can be traced back to the mid-19th century and emerged paradoxically precisely at a time when scholars started to understand the environmental limits of the economy. My research explores the nexus between political economy and environmental thought, trying to understand how conceptions of nature have influenced economics. My other research topic is the history of economic planning, which was the topic of my PhD thesis (at the University of Amsterdam). I am particularly interested in economic planning in relation to forms of future thinking in politics and culture. Lastly, I also have an interest in the philosophy of history. I which I focus mainly on how experiences and conceptions of historical time shape modern politics.
Teaching
2024-2025 Fall Semester: History and Nature in Political Thought for the L'École de la recherche, the master program of political sciences, the political theory track.
Publications
“Not Just the Economic Style: Technocratic Ideology and Neoliberalism in US Policymaking.” Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, no. 13–3 (September 1, 2023): 941–55. https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.16253
“Reading Tinbergen Through the Lens of Max Weber” in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics,
Vol 15, No 2. DOI:10.23941/ejpe.v15i2.717
“Towards a Politics of Restraint: Public Choice Theory in the Dutch Labour Party of the 1970s” in TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of the Social and Economic History, Vol. 18, no. 1 (June 2021), pp. 53-78. DOI:10.18352/tseg.1198
“A Night Train in Broad Daylight: Changing Economic Expertise at the Dutch Central Planning Bureau 1945 – 1977” in Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2 (October 2019), pp. 337-370. DOI:10.4000/oeconomia.5613
Contact
Twitter: @TN_Kayzel
