Arild Vatn

Arild Vatn (born May 17, 1952 ) is a Norwegian economist.

Live and act

Vatn studied agricultural science and graduated in 1979. In 1983 he received his doctorate in the same subject. He has been a professor at the Norwegian University of Environmental and Biosciences (NMBU) since 1996 , with a 4-year break from 2008 to 2012 when he was professor at the Thor Heyerdahl Institute (in cooperation with the NMBU). From 2006 to 2009 he was President of the European Society for Ecological Economics .

research

Vatn's research focuses on ecological economics and institutional economics ; he works in particular on questions of environmental governance and institutions in the environmental context. His interdisciplinary research combines findings from heterodox schools of thought in economics, in particular the old institutional economics, with elements of the new institutional economics , which he mainly applies to environmental and agricultural contexts. Among other things, he made critical contributions to the theory of environmental economic evaluation and collective decision-making. With regard to institutions, he repeatedly emphasized, in contrast to the New Institutional Economics, that they are not only the result of collective preferences, but also change and shape individual preferences - whereas the New Institutional Economics only regards them as external limitations. Thus, he also questions the image of man and the assumptions of rationality of neoclassical economics . He demands and participates in the development of a theory of human action for ecological economics.

Awards

2007: Veblen 150 Prize of the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) and European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) for his book Institutions and the Environment

Works

Institutions and the Environment . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2005, ISBN 978-1-84376-100-6 .
Environmental Governance: Institutions, Policies and Actions . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2016, ISBN 978-1-78536-362-7 .

Web links

Homepage

Individual evidence

↑ Arild Vatn: What ecological economics needs to advance . In: ESEE (Ed.): 1996–2016 Anniversary Bulletin: Reflections on two decades of Ecological Economics in Europe . 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Vatn, Arild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian economist
DATE OF BIRTH	17th May 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Norway

[1] Arild Vatn: What ecological economics needs to advance . In: ESEE (Ed.): 1996–2016 Anniversary Bulletin: Reflections on two decades of Ecological Economics in Europe . 2016.