I am research assistant at the chair for practical, legal, and social philosophy at Humboldt-University and a member of the DFG-funded graduate college 2638 Normativity, Critique, Change. My PhD project on the notion of the world market is being supervised by Prof Dr Rahel Jaeggi. I hold an MA in philosophy with a minor in capitalism studies from the New School for Social Research, a conjoined-BA in philosophy and history from Münster University, an MPhil in social and developmental psychology from Cambridge University, and an MSc in Psychology from Münster University.

Towards the Notion of the World Market

The object of my dissertation is the notion of the world market. Usually, the world market is understood as the totality of exchange relations between economic actors that connect their respective national economies across state borders on a global scale. In this sense, historians of the global economy speak of the constitution of the world market in the long 19^th century, its disintegration in the great depression from 1929 and the two World Wars, and its reconstitution after World War II. What distinguishes the world market from national markets, according to this understanding, is firstly its function as the connecting element between national economies and secondly its wider, namely, global extent. If one were to accept this characterization, the world market of both phases of globalization, then as now, would have to be subsumed under the same abstract concept. In fact, however, the world market underwent an overwhelming change with its reconstitution after 1945 which sublated both the experience of its disintegration and the parallel process of formal decolonization within itself. Institutions have been created that regulate and restrict state interference with the market – as well as economic means to enforce these regulations against formally independent states. The aim of my dissertation is to grasp this development conceptually and so to explicate a historically contentful notion of the world market that makes it possible to think it as the result of its immanent contradictions: As the world market in and for itself.

Research Interests:

• Critical Theory of Society
• The Philosophy of Hegel
• Social Philosophy

Jabold, P. (2020). Stereotype formation but no dissociation: Contradicting statistics reduce explicit and implicit stereotypes engendered by disproportional crime reporting. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11, 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619862264.