Alfred Bürgin
Alfred Bürgin (born September 6, 1927 ; † February 15, 2014 in Riehen ) was a Swiss economic historian .
Life
Alfred Bürgin studied with Edgar Salin at the University of Basel and received his doctorate there after semesters abroad in Heidelberg , Geneva and London in 1953. In his dissertation he examined - starting from Max Weber - the connection between Calvinism and capitalism using the example of Geneva. After completing his habilitation with a thesis on the history of Basel chemistry in 1962, he became an associate professor for economic history at the University of Basel. At the same time, he had a career at the chemical company JR Geigy AG and then later at the merged Ciba-Geigy , where he headed the economics department. In 1993 he published his main work "On the Sociogenesis of Political Economy" (2nd edition 1996), in which he traces the dogma history of economics from Aristotle to Adam Smith .
Web links
- Thomas Maissen : On the death of Alfred Bürgin. Economics as a human sciences , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 17, 2014
- Obituary in the Basler Zeitung , February 21, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Bürgin, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss economic historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th February 2014 |
| Place of death | Riehen |