Max is a historically-oriented political theorist and political economist, on leave from his postdoc at the Institute for Socioeconomics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he coordinates the PhD programme “The Political Economy of Inequality”. Max is also co-founder and Research Director of Dezernat Zukunft, a German macro-finance think tank. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, an MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. Before Duisburg-Essen, he held the Chaire SFPI at the Royal Academy of Belgium. Max’s research and teaching interests range across political theory, political economy, and economic history and concentrate on the relationship between capitalism and democracy in Western modernity. His work has been published in leading journals and newspapers such as History of Political Thought, Financial Times, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Frankfurter Allgemeine.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE Max was involved in the program The Future of Democracy.