Anton Konrad (economist)

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Anton Konrad (born January 19, 1932 in Munich ) is a German economist and retired professor of economics and head of the seminar for monetary economics at the Economics Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Konrad attended primary school in Munich from 1939 to 1943. In 1943 he moved to the secondary school in Munich-Pasing, which he graduated from high school in 1952. In the same year he began studying economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In April 1956 he completed his studies with a degree in economics. In 1956 and 1957 he attended the Bologna Center, newly founded in 1955 by C. Grove Haines, of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University . From 1957 to 1966 he was a research assistant at the State Economics Department of the University of Munich. During this time he received his doctorate in December 1959 with a monetary work on "Balance of payments disruptions and economic growth: illustrated using the example of the United States of America and Western Europe 1950-1959" for a Dr. oec. publ. In the summer semester of 1966 he completed his habilitation with a paper on “Investment Criteria and Price Mechanisms in Developing Countries”.

From 1966 to 1972 Konrad worked as a university lecturer at the State Economics Faculty of the University of Munich. In 1972 he was appointed scientific advisor and professor at the University of Munich. He spent the 1974 summer semester as a visiting fellow at the Center of European Studies at the University of Sussex . In the academic year 1976/77 he held a teaching position at the University of Bayreuth , which was newly founded in 1975 . From 1984 he was entrusted with the direction of the seminar for monetary economics at the economics faculty of the University of Munich. At the same time he was head of the pre-examination office of the economics faculty for many years.

In the 1998 summer semester, Anton Konrad retired.

Trivia

Anton Konrad is very good at shorthand , which he uses to write his notes.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae on the website of the Economics Faculty of the LMU.