Stefan Link

Stefan is a fifth-year graduate student in the History department. His research interests are in the intellectual history of 20th-century capitalism. He is particularly interested in how the beliefs and ideologies of economic actors shape actual outcomes, in terms of both intended and unintended consequences. Stefanís dissertation examines the way in which modernizers of different political hues and geographical backgrounds appropriated ideas and practices associated with the label "Fordism" between World War I and II. It aims to establish the intellectual, social and economic significance of Fordism as a modernist counter-practice to liberal capitalism. Returning from a year of research in Berlin, Stefan is in residence at both CES and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2009/10.