Rudolf Hickel

Rudolf Hickel (born January 17, 1942 in Nuremberg ) is a German economist . He was a professor for public finance at the University of Bremen and from November 2001 to October 2009 director of the Institute for Labor and Economics (IAW).

biography

Hickel was born the son of the concertmaster of the same name and his wife Elisabeth Falkenhain. He grew up in Bad Wildbad in the Black Forest and graduated from the commercial high school in Pforzheim . From 1962 to 1967 he studied economics at the Free University of Berlin and at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen , where he was chairman of the Asta . Subsequently, he worked in Tübingen until 1969 as an assistant at the Chair for Theory of Economics . From 1969 to 1970 he was a research assistant in the economics department at the University of Konstanz , where he was involved as an assistant representative. 1970 doctorate he became Dr. rer. pole. with his work A new type of accumulation . Hickel was a fellow of the Cusanuswerk .

In 1971 he was appointed Professor of Political Economy (with a focus on public finances ) at the University of Bremen , which he was actively involved in building up. In 1973 he received the professorship for finance. In 1975 he became a member of the Alternative Economic Policy working group . In this function, he is co-editor of the counter-report to the Expert Council for the Assessment of Overall Economic Development (SVR) , which appears on May 1st .

In 1989 he was co-editor of the political-scientific monthly magazine Leviathan (since retired) and papers for German and international politics . In 1990 he gave lectures in the summer semester at the Humboldt University in Berlin (“Market Functions and Market Failure - Basics of a Mixed Economy”). In 1990, together with Heiner Heseler, he published an expert report entitled The Maritime Sector in Transition: Economic Structural and Employment Policy Proposals for Rostock . In 1991 his book Preis der Einheit was published .

In 1993 he received the chair for public finance at the University of Bremen and was an arbitrator in the metal collective bargaining negotiations in Saxony.

He has been President of the ZWE since the spring of 1994; from November 2001 to September 2009 he was director of the Institute for Labor and Economics (IAW) at the University of Bremen. On February 6, 2007, he finished teaching there after more than 34 years.

In the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland he wrote an economic policy column alternating with Robert Kurz , Christa Luft and Harry Nick . He can also be found again and again in the Frankfurter Rundschau , in Junge Welt and taz .

In 2017, Hickel was awarded the Senate Medal for Art and Science from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

Activities outside the university

Hickel is a member of the scientific advisory board of the globalization-critical organization Attac . On behalf of the employees , he sits on the supervisory boards of Salzgitter Stahl und Technologie AG and the Bremen-based GEWOBA (Aktiengesellschaft Wohnen und Bauen); his mandate at Allianz SE ended in 2006.

Economic policy positions

Demand orientation

Hickel takes a demand-driven approach to economic policy and is a proponent of a post-Keynesian economic position. Hickel advocates minimum wages and says that Germany has an “internationally competitive economy that can withstand high wages due to its growing productivity .” Agenda 2010 “rather burdened” the upswing from 2005 to 2007, it put pressure on wages and is at the expense of consumption. According to Hickel, wage restraint in domestic demand is a shame, and competition for wage reductions would even be economically very damaging to Germany. It would be much more a question of innovations in order to survive in global competition . In addition, a supply-oriented economic policy favors “ casino capitalism ”, which hinders the creation of jobs in Germany.

Criticism from the supply policy

Its views are particularly rejected by supply-oriented economists. Hickels demand for a reduction in working hours with full wage compensation was z. B. attacked sharply by the economically liberal economist Hans-Werner Sinn . He speaks out against Hickel's thesis that Germany's high unemployment is also an economic problem that can be solved, for example, through public spending programs.

Audio

• "Intermediate tones" music and questions about the person with Rudolf Hickel , 66.26 minutes, Deutschlandfunk December 15, 2019, audio version 1/2 year online

Works (selection)

• Smash the banks. Civilize the financial markets . Econ 2012, ISBN 978-3-430-20141-4 .
• Cash drop. Seven reasons for a different economic policy . Hamburg 2006 ( book review on Deutschlandfunk ).
• Welfare state in decline. The neoliberal offensive. Criticism and alternatives . Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-89458-227-8 .
• The spiral of risk. What remains of the new economy? Eichborn-Verlag 2001, ISBN 3821839031 .
• Do we need a different economy? Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-23045-3 .
• Politics of Capital, today (with Klaus Peter Kisker , Harald Mattfeldt ). VSA-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3879757771 (based on Jörg Huffschmid : Die Politik des Kapitals from 1969).
• Location madness and fear of the euro. The seven fallacies of German economic policy . Reinbek 1998, ISBN 349922237X .
• Unit price. Balance sheet and perspectives of German unification (together with Jan Priewe ). Frankfurt am Main 1994 (was translated into Korean in particular ).
• Millions of unemployed (together with Harald Mattfeldt ). Rowohlt TB-V., Reinbek 1986, ISBN 3499153386 .
• The financial crisis of the tax state - contributions to the political economy of state finances . ( Rudolf Goldscheid , Joseph Schumpeter , eds. Rudolf Hickel), edition Suhrkamp 1976.
• Collective wage policy using the hardship regulation (together with W. Kurtzke). Cologne 1967.

Fonts

• Heiner Heseler , Jörg Huffschmid , Norbert Reuter , Axel Troost : Against the market orthodoxy. Perspectives of a democratic economy based on solidarity . Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Rudolf Hickel, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3879758441 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Hickel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Rudolf Hickel at the University of Bremen
• Article about the macroeconomic costs of the Iraq war by Rudolf Hickel
• cicero.de: Interview (May 2012)
• Deutschlandfunk '' nuances. Music and questions about the person '' from December 15, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weser-Kurier No. 31: Rudolf Hickel says goodbye to the university after 34 years on February 6, 2007; P. 9; by Elke Gundel
2. ↑ http://www.iaw.uni-bremen.de/ccm/content/mitteilungen/2009/wechsel-an-der-spitze-des-iaw.de
3. ↑ Maren Beneke: Bremen Senate honors Rudolf Hickel . In: Weser-Kurier of April 4, 2017, p. 17.
4. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Web ( Memento of January 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) The neoliberals have been refuted. Interview in Westdeutsche Allgemeine on January 17, 2008, accessed on September 19, 2008
6. ↑ Web ( Memento of January 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) The neoliberals have been refuted. , Interview in Westdeutsche Allgemeine on January 17, 2008, accessed on September 19, 2008
7. ↑ Finally !: Now comes the time for higher wages , guest article in the Handelsblatt from July 27, 2010. ( Memento from July 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ FOCUS MONEY Online, February 2004: How to save Germany  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ FOCUS MONEY Online, February 2004: How to save Germany  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.