Adelheid Biesecker

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Adelheid Biesecker (born June 21, 1942 in Berlin ) is a professor emeritus for economics at the University of Bremen .

Life

Adelheid Biesecker studied economics at the Free University of Berlin and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD .

In 1971 she moved to the newly founded University of Bremen. Until 2004 she was professor for “ Economic theory with special consideration of the socio-historical development conditions” in the department of economics and until her retirement she headed the Institute for Institutional Economy and Social Economy together with two colleagues. Her main areas of work are: the history of economic theory formation, microeconomics from a socio-ecological perspective, ecological economics and feminist economics. Your last research project together with ten colleagues was entitled “Blocked Change? Spaces of thought and action for sustainable regional development ”and was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the research focus“ Social-ecological research ” .

Because of its membership in the Communist League of West Germany (KBW), the Bremen Senate unsuccessfully dismissed it from public service in the mid-1970s . In 1979, Adelheid Biesecker ran for the KBW in the election of Bremen citizenship , and in the 1980 federal election she also ran for this organization in constituency 50 of Bremen-Ost. After the party organs of the KBW were discontinued in 1983, she was one of the editors of the KBW successor magazine Kommune . She no longer has these radical political attitudes today. She is now strongly committed to environmental protection and sustainability, not only in her scientific work and lectures, but above all in private areas.

From 1994 to 1999, Adelheid Biesecker was a member of the committee of experts in the research program “Model Projects for Sustainable Economics” at the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. From 2000 to 2002 she was a member of the Enquête Commission " Future of Civic Engagement " of the German Bundestag. She is a member of the "Preventive Economy" network and the Association for Ecological Economy (VÖÖ) and is a member of the scientific advisory board of attac Germany.

Publications

Selection of publications:

  • Adelheid Biesecker, Maite Matthes, Susanne Schön and Babette Scurrell (eds.): Preventive economics. On the way to an economy of the good life. Kleine - Verlag, Bielefeld 2000.
  • Adelheid Biesecker and Stefan Kesting: Microeconomics. An introduction from a socio-ecological perspective. Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 2003.
  • Adelheid Biesecker, Martin Büscher, Thomas Sauer and Eckart Stratmann-Mertens (eds.): Alternative world economic order; Perspectives after Cancun . VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2004
  • Adelheid Biesecker and Sabine Hofmeister: The reinvention of the economic. A (re) production theoretical contribution to social-ecological research. Results of social-ecological research Volume 2. oekom - Verlag, Munich 2006.
  • Adelheid Biesecker and Sabine Hofmeister: (Re) productivity. Sustainable nature and gender relations . In: contradiction. No. 54, Volume 28, 2008, pp. 111–126.
  • Adelheid Biesecker and Helmut Bley: Crisis without End ?: On the history and causes of capitalist crises and possible alternatives (pamphlets of critical science). Offizin Hannover, 2009, ISBN 978-3-93034-586-1 .
  • Adelheid Biesecker, Heinz-J. Bontrup and Falko Brede: Paths and aberrations in the knowledge society: research policy between securing a location and social responsibility . Association of Democratic Women Scientists, 2011, ISBN 978-3-93986-413-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Biesecker, Adelheid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liedke, Adelheid (maiden name); Moyzischewitz, Adelheid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin