Achim Truger

Achim Truger (born June 3, 1969 in Cologne ) is a German economist . Since April 2019 he has been professor of socio-economics with a focus on government activities and public finances at the University of Duisburg-Essen . On March 1, 2019, he was appointed by the federal government on the proposal of the trade unions as a member of the Expert Council for the assessment of macroeconomic development ("economic method").

Life

From 1988 to 1992 Achim Truger studied economics at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne and graduated with a degree in economics . He then worked until 1999 as a freelance research assistant at the Financial Research Institute at the University of Cologne (FiFo) and as a research assistant at Klaus Mackscheidt's chair . In 1997 he received his doctorate at the Department of Public Finance of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne with summa cum laude. Since 2004 he was head of the Department fiscal and financial policies in the Economic and Social Research Institute (WSI), from 2005 to 2012 then head of the department fiscal and financial policies in the Department of Macroeconomic Research (IMK). He has been a Senior Research Fellow there since 2014. From 2012 to 2019 he was Professor of Economics, in particular Macroeconomics and Economic Policy , and from 2014 also Vice Dean in the Department of Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law .

In addition to his teaching and research activities, he regularly prepares reports on financial policy issues at the state level. He is one of the editors of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention . He is also the author of the Steuermythen.de project, which was founded by SPD members of the Bundestag on the initiative of Carsten Sieling .

Truger’s nomination as a representative of the trade unions for the Expert Council for the Assessment of Macroeconomic Development as the successor to Peter Bofinger met with resistance from the academic world. The Düsseldorf economics professor Justus Haucap criticized : “The trade unions send a scientific lightweight who can hardly discuss on an equal footing with the other four members.” At the time of his nomination by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Truger was not among the top 100 places in the economists ranking .

research

Achim Truger’s research focuses primarily on German and European tax and financial policy, in particular “ debt brakes ”, and ecological tax reform approaches.

Furthermore, he does research on the topic of the euro crisis, whereby he is critical of the austerity policy of the European Commission . He sees the austerity measures in the crisis countries as one of the main reasons for the slow recovery and pleads for a more expansive fiscal policy that could lead to a self-sustaining upswing.

Awards

• Winner of the “Progressive Economy Call for Papers 2015” in the “Alternatives to Austerity” category: Social Democratic Group in the European Parliament
• FAZ 2014 ranking of the most influential economists in Germany: 72nd place overall and 29th place in terms of political influence

Publications (selection)

• An expansive financial policy in Europe is possible - if necessary also within the existing institutional framework. In: M. Junkernheinrich, S. Korioth, T. Lenk, H. Scheller, M. Woisin (Eds.): Yearbook for Public Finances 2015. Berlin 2015, pp. 286–297.
• Implementing the Golden Rule for Public Investment in Europe - Safeguarding Public Investment and Supporting the Recovery. (= Working Paper Series of the Vienna AK / Materials on Economy and Society. 138). Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees Vienna, Vienna 2015.
• with S. Dullien and E. Hein (eds.): Macroeconomics, Development and Economic Policy, Festschrift for Jan Priewe. Metropolis, Marburg 2014.
• with S. Godar and C. Paetz: Progressive tax reform in OECD countries: opportunities and obstacles. In: International Journal of Labor Research. 6 (1), 2014, pp. 95–111.
• with K. Rietzler and D. Teichmann: Reduction of the cold progression: sober analysis required. In: Economic Service. 94 (12), 2014, pp. 864-871.
• with K. Eicker-Wolf: Demystifying a 'shining example': German Public Finances Under the Debt Brake. (= Global Labor University. Working Paper No. 21) International Labor Organization, Geneva 2014.
• with E. Hein: Finance-dominated capitalism in crisis - the case for a global Keynesian New Deal. In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. 35 (2), 2013, pp. 183-210.
• Tax Policies for Redistribution: A Macroeconomic Perspective. In: Quarterly issues for economic research. 82 (1), 2013, pp. 43-59.
• Austerity in the euro area: the sad state of economic policy in Germany and the EU. In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, Intervention. 2/2013, pp. 158-174.
• with H. Will: The German 'debt brake': A shining example for European fiscal policy? In: Revue de l'OFCE / Debates and Policies, The Euro Area In Crisis. 127, 2013, pp. 155-188.

Web links

• hwr-berlin.de/prof/achim-truger/
• steuermythen.de
• Economist on distributive justice: "Increasing imbalance" Achim Truger in an interview with Gunnar Hinck, In: www.taz.de, March 19, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/mehr-wirtschaft/ Resistance-gegen-achim-truger-als-wirtschaftsweiser-15815063.html
2. ↑ tagesschau.de: New way of doing business Truger - a controversial candidate. Retrieved February 22, 2019 . 
3. ^ IPE Berlin: IPE Berlin: Achim Truger. (No longer available online.) In: www.ipe-berlin.org. Archived from the original on December 5, 2016 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Journal for a Progressive Economy. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Progressive Economy, July 2015, archived from the original on September 12, 2015 ; accessed on December 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Economists Ranking 2014: The Most Influential Economists in Politics . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 5, 2014, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 4, 2016]).