Karl Georg Zinn

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Karl Georg Zinn (born September 22, 1939 in Kassel ) is a German economist .

Life

Zinn is the son of the former Hessian Prime Minister Georg-August Zinn . He studied economics and social sciences in Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg and Mainz.

He received his doctorate in 1965. In 1969 he completed his habilitation at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 1970 to 2004, Zinn was Professor of Economics at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen , specializing in "Foreign Trade and the History of Political Economy ".

Tin is known for its decidedly Keynesian position; and Marxist approaches are based on its analysis. In particular, Zinn classifies so-called neoliberalism as dangerous for the development of German society. He regularly publishes articles in the journal Socialism . Alongside Frank Crüsemann , Ulrich Duchrow , Heino Falcke , Christian Felber , Kuno Füssel , Detlef Hensche , Siegfried Katterle, Arne Manzeschke, Silke Niemeyer, Franz Segbers and Ton Veerkamp, ​​he is the first to sign the appeal Peace with Capital? A call against the adjustment of the Evangelical Church to the power of the economy.

Zinn is a member of the advisory board of the civil rights organization Humanist Union and an official supporter of the demonstration Freedom Instead of Fear .

Fonts

  • The positivist evolutionary thesis of Comte's three-stage law. Presentation and comparison with theories of economic development stages. Dissertation. Mainz 1966
  • Business theory for practitioners. Introduction to business cycle theory and business cycle policy taking into account the Stability Law and the main features of employment theory. Verlag Neue Wirtschafts-Briefe, Herne / Berlin 1969; 4th modified edition ibid. 1977, ISBN 3-482-53054-8
  • General economic policy as the foundation of a critical economy. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [a. a.] 1970; 2. revised u. expanded edition ibid. 1974, ISBN 3-17-001929-5
  • Basic theory of economic prosperity in a democracy. The interdependence of equality, time and utility and the consequence of distribution policy. Habilitation. F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1970
  • Socialist planned economy. Basics and current problems of labor value theory. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [a. a.] 1971
  • Labor theory of value. On today's understanding of Karl Marx's positive economic theory. Verlag Neue Wirtschafts-Briefe, Herne / Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-482-53101-3
  • Prosperity and economic order. On the efficiency of market economy and planned economy systems. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1972, ISBN 3-534-06225-6
  • with Hans-R. Hemmer : 20 easy topics from general economics. Verlag Neue Wirtschafts-Briefe, Herne / Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-482-76012-8
  • with Hans-R. Hemmer: 10 moderately difficult topics from general economics. Verlag Neue Wirtschafts-Briefe, Herne / Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-482-76022-5
  • with Hans-R. Hemmer: 35 topics, cases, solutions from general economics. Verlag Neue Wirtschafts-Briefe, Herne / Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-482-76013-6
  • Teaching economic contexts in an understandable way. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin / Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-541-40051-X ; Emphasis as economics. An introductory presentation. Augustinus-Buchhandlung, Aachen 1984, ISBN 3-925038-01-9 .
  • Economy and philosophy of science. Knowledge and practice for business and economists. Verlag Neue Wirtschafts-Briefe, Herne / Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-482-53141-2
  • (Ed.): Strategies against unemployment. Analyzes of undesirable economic developments and economic policy proposals. European Publishing House, Frankfurt / Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-434-45069-6
  • with Ulrich Peter Ritter: Basic vocabulary of economic terms. English-German / German-English. Fischer, Stuttgart / New York 1978, ISBN 3-437-40046-0 ; 6th edited and expanded edition: Lucius and Lucius, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8282-0039-7
  • The decline of profit. A pamphlet on the risks of the capitalist economic crisis. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7663-0218-3
  • Price system and state interventionism. History and theory of private price administration and price control in the UK and US. Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7663-0197-7
  • The self-destruction of the growth society. Political action in the economic system. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-55394-5
  • with Werner Meissner: The new prosperity. Qualitative growth and full employment. Bertelsmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-02278-1
  • Work, consumption, accumulation. Attempt of an integral analysis of capitalism by Keynes and Marx. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87975-347-4
  • Political Economy. Apologies and criticisms of capitalism. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987, ISBN 3-531-22150-7
  • Macroeconomics. Introduction to income and employment theory (Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre III). Augustinus-Buchhandlung, Aachen 1987; 7th revised edition: Riese Springer, Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-933682-02-9
  • (Ed.): Keynes from a Post-Keynescher point of view. For the 50th year of publication of the "General Theory" by John Maynard Keynes. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-8244-4005-9
  • Cannons and plague. About the origins of modern times in the 14th and 15th centuries. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1989, ISBN 3-531-12107-3
  • Social market economy. Idea, development and politics of the German economic order. BI-Taschenbuchverlag, Mannheim [u. a.] 1992, ISBN 3-411-10181-4
  • The economic crisis. Growth or stagnation. On the basic economic problem of mature economies. BI-Taschenbuchverlag, Mannheim [u. a.] 1994, ISBN 3-411-10451-1
  • Business cycle and growth. Verlag der Augustinus-Buchhandlung, Aachen 1994, ISBN 3-86073-330-3 ; 5th updated edition: Riese-Springer, Aachen 2002, ISBN 3-933682-03-7
  • Twenty years of economic crisis - a signal of a change of epochs? About unemployment, coping rhetoric and believing in simple recipes. In: work. Issue 3/1996, pp. 298–317 ( PDF; 143 kB )
  • Beyond the market myths. Economic crises: causes and ways out. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-87975-698-8
  • How wealth creates poverty. Waste, unemployment and scarcity. PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89438-150-7 ; 2nd revised and expanded edition ibid. 2002, ISBN 3-89438-249-X
    • Review by Jos Schnurer on socialnet, January 27, 2007
  • Welfare state in crisis. To save a project of the century. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7466-8528-1
  • Winners and losers of globalization? Economic development in the last quarter of the 20th century. VSA, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-87975-954-5
  • Work, sustainability and employment. In: work. Issue 1/2001, pp. 36–49 ( PDF; 60 kB )
  • Future knowledge. The next 10 years in the perspective of political economy. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-855-7
  • with Joachim Bischoff & Joachim Hirsch : Globalization, Neoliberalism, Alternatives. VSA, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89965-910-4
  • with Joachim Bischoff & Klaus Dräger: Future of Europe. Economic governance - internal market liberalization - transatlantic partnership. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-89965-915-5
  • Basics and characteristics of neoliberalism in Germany. In: Hans-Georg Draheim & Dieter Janke (Eds.): Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism - Opportunity for a New Political Economy? Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-89819-258-3 , pp. 27–52 ( PDF; 241 kB )
  • Capitalism in a futurological retrospective . In: Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Renewal . March 2008
  • with Udo Ludwig, Klaus Steinitz et al .: Economic Perspectives. Between expectations of prosperity and crisis scenarios. VSA, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-294-9
  • The Keynesian alternative. Contributions to Keynesian stagnation theory, to the historical oblivion of economics and to the question of a left economic ethics. VSA, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-323-6
    • therein: Why are the Swedes the better social democrats? On the importance of intercultural differences ( PDF; 176 kB )
  • with Joachim Bischoff & Stephan Krüger: Financial crisis, over-accumulation, and the return of the state. VSA, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-948-1

Literature / Festschrift

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peace with Capital? A call against the adjustment of the Evangelical Church to the power of the economy. October 31, 2008, accessed November 2, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Advisory Board of the Humanist Union
  3. ^ Demonstration call for freedom instead of fear with a list of supporters
personal data
SURNAME Tin, Karl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel