Daniel Yergin

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Yergin at the 2011 World Economic Forum .

Daniel Yergin (born February 6, 1947 ) is an American author and economist.

education

The historian and economist taught politics and economics at Cambridge University and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. He is considered an authority on international politics and economics.

Journalistic activity

In 1991 Yergin published "The Prize - The Hunt for Oil, Money and Power" (German Frankfurt 1991, original title "Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power"), an internationally recognized standard work on the history of petroleum, and received for it the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for the best non-fiction book. Yergin has also attended various U.S. government hearings on oil and energy issues.

Positions

As early as 2008, Yergin did not consider the global oil production peak to be an acute or serious problem. According to him, the high oil prices at the time were more due to the lack of capacity in the industry than to geological aspects. Only in the long run does he see the dominance of oil as an all-encompassing energy source slowly dwindling due to increasing fuel efficiency.

Yergin's predictions and assurances about the future of world oil supplies have been widely criticized. For example, Jean Laherrere has argued that Yergin's predictions of energy production and prices were neglecting fundamental facts and drawing incorrect conclusions.

In 2014, in a study carried out on behalf of a number of German companies, IHS came to the conclusion that the current design of the so-called energy transition is endangering Germany's competitiveness. Yergin explained further conclusions, among other things in an interview in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , according to which it makes sense to promote more domestic natural gas in Germany using shale gas technology and to maintain the green electricity discounts for industry. The energy transition is based on the false assumption that energy prices will rise worldwide. The opposite is the case, especially in Germany, the green electricity surcharges lead to a distortion of competition that is harmful to exports.

Entrepreneur

Yergin is CEO of CERA (Cambridge Energy Research Associates), an American consulting firm specializing in the energy market , industrial trends , geopolitics and industrial strategy. The company with - according to its own statements - currently employs 200 people, was founded in 1983 by Yergin and James Rosenfield and acquired by Information Handling Services (IHS Energy) in 2004 , but continues to operate as CERA. Every year Yergin organizes a high-level conference (CERA Week) in Houston, Texas, through CERA .

Books

  • Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State . Houghton Mifflin, New York 1977. Reprints: Penguin, 1978, 1980, ISBN 0-395-27267-X ; Penguin, rev. & updated, 1990, ISBN 0-14-012177-3 .
  • The Dependence Dilemma (Harvard Studies in International Affairs 43): Gasoline Consumption and America's Security . University Press of America, 1980. ISBN 0-87674-047-6 . Reprint: Rowman & Littlefield, 1984, ISBN 0-8191-4056-2 .
  • 1989 Fuels report hearing on the oil price forecast and scenario planning (CEC contract) . Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1989.
  • The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve . Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1990.
  • The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power . Simon & Schuster, New York 1991. ISBN 0-671-50248-4 . Reprint: Simon & Schuster, 1992, ISBN 0-671-79932-0 .
  • Gasoline and the American People . Cambridge Energy Research Associates, 1991.
  • The Euro: Remaking Europe's Future: The New Europe poses enormous challenges - for the welfare state, for companies, and for political leaders . Cambridge Energy Associates, 1998.
  • The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World . Penguin Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59420-283-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Daniel Yergin: Oil at the turning point FTD from May 29, 2008 ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ "Holding Daniel Yergin and CERA Accountable", www.theoildrum.com/node/3487
  3. ↑ Gail Tverberg: “Is Yergin Correct about Oil Supply? (an Opinion the WSJ did not run) ", http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/09/29/is-yergin-correct-about-oil-supply-an-opinion-the-wsj-did-not-run /
  4. ↑ "Peak Oil: Laherrère responds to Yergin", http://petrole.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/09/26/peak-oil-laherrere-responds-to-yergin/
  5. ↑ a b c d “Germany has the choice between fracking and coal” Interview with Daniel Yergin on February 27, 2014, US economist Daniel Yergin pleads for more fracking in Germany and wants to keep green electricity discounts for companies. Otherwise the energy transition will harm the economy. An interview by Marlies Uken, February 27, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Yergin, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, economist, and Pulitzer Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1947