Alexander Dill (sociologist)

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Alexander Dill (* 1959 in Munich ) is a German sociologist .

Career

Dill did his PhD in sociology with Dietmar Kamper at the Free University of Berlin. He then claimed to have worked in various professions, including the planning of biomass heating plants , the coordination of "German foreign marketing" and the founding of Internetkloster Software GmbH in 2002. Then Dill turned back to sociology and published in 2007 at the Institute of Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012) at the University of Indiana assessed the commons in a Commons Index. In 2009 he founded at the suggestion of the Ostrom "Basel Institute of Commons and Economics" for the measurement of common goods and social capital .

Dill published essays and commentaries for DIE ZEIT , Standard , Tagesspiegel , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Telepolis , and Euro am Sonntag, among others , and researched the German contribution to the global financial crisis for Spiegel-Online.

Forewords to Dill's books were written by Helmut Kohl (1997 for Marketing for Germany), Roman Herzog (German Foundation for Risk Culture) and Jochen Hörisch (Your state is yours!).

Since 2016 Dill has been head of a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals project , the World Social Capital Monitor .

Dill is the father of three sons.

Publications

  • Philosophical Practice - An Introduction . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-596-42327-9 .
  • Marketing for Germany: 112 original ideas from 43 countries. With a foreword by Dr. Helmut Kohl . Transfer Ideas, Teisendorf 1996, ISBN 3-9805170-0-4 (as publisher).
  • The success trap: experiences with business plans, success gurus and a good life . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-33746-1 .
  • Together we are rich: how communities without money create value . Oekom , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86581-288-9 .
  • Your state is yours! A farewell letter to the angry bourgeoisie . Heise, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-944099-01-9 .
  • Reassessing the World - Why Poor Countries Stay Poor and How We Can Change That. Oekom Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86581-841-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reclaiming the Hidden Assets: Towards a Global Freeware Index in the Digital Library of the Commons, on dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
  2. ↑ Lehman Crash How German banks promoted the disaster on spiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Dill, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich