Antal Fekete

Antal Endre Fekete (born December 8, 1932 in Budapest , Hungary ) is a mathematician and economist . His financial work can be assigned to the Austrian School of Economics.

Life

In 1955 he graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. After the suppression of the Hungarian uprising , he emigrated to Canada . In 1958 he became an assistant professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland . After 35 years of service, he retired in 1993 with the rank of full professor . He was visiting professor at Columbia University (1961), Trinity College Dublin (1964), Acadia University (1970) and Princeton University (1974). Since 2005 he has been Professor at Large at the Intermountain Institute for Science and Applied Mathematics (IISAM) in Missoula , Montana .

As a finance scientist, Fekete is self-taught . In 1996 he won gold with the essay Whither Gold? the currency price of Bank Lips AG . One of his theses is that as a result of the monetary policy of the central banks ( low and negative interest rate policy ), the world economy is facing an avalanche-like transformation from a money economy to an exchange economy .

Fonts

• Real linear algebra . Chapman & Hall Pure and Applied Mathematics, Book 91, CRC Press, 1985.
• with Peter M. Van Coppenolle: Critique of Mainstream Austrian Economics. In the spirit of Carl Menger . 2019.
• with Peter M. Van Coppenolle: Credit And The Two Sources From Which It Springs . 2019.

Web links

• Homepage
• Curriculum Vitae: About Professor Fekete ( PDF , October 8, 2007)
• Biography in the portal newaustrian.org (web.archiv.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "... and suddenly there will be no more gold!" Interview from January 27, 2011 in the smartinvestor .de portal , accessed on September 3, 2019
2. ↑ Antal E. Fekete: Whither Gold? Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's 1996 ( PDF )
3. ↑ Wolfgang Arnold: Offer haircuts for bread. What matters when the money system breaks down? tredition Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8495-4983-1 ( Google Books )