Arnis Vilks

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Arnis Augusts Vilks (* 1956 in Buxtehude ) is a German economist and philosopher of Latvian descent.

Life

He studied economics, philosophy, mathematics and political science at the University of Hamburg , and received his doctorate in 1983 under Harald Scherf . The habilitation in economics followed in 1990. After a research stay at the University of Cambridge as Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall and a professorship at the EuroFaculty at the University of Latvia in Riga , he was one of the first professors at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL), which was founded in 1992. where he holds the chair for microeconomics. From 2000 to 2005 and again on an interim basis from 2010 to 2011, Vilks was rector of HHL.

While his early research focused primarily on the logical and philosophical foundations of economic theory, and covered topics such as aggregation , axiomatics , equilibrium, and the formal-logical treatment of belief and knowledge in game theory , after his rectorate Vilks turned to the project of a critical overall view of the Western worldview , which resulted in his "Meditations on God and the World and Money" published in 2013.

From 2013 to 2014 he was the tandem dean of the College of Business and Economics at Mekelle University in Mek'ele , Ethiopia.

Publications

Books

  • Aggregation and causality in the general competitive equilibrium model. Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-11287-4 .
  • Neoclassical, balance and reality. An investigation into the foundations of economic theory. Physica, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-7908-0569-6 .
  • Meditations on God and the world and money. Try a better worldview. Self publication . Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-95488-447-6 .

Articles (selection)

  • For Klein-Nataf aggregation in limitational production functions. In: Methods of Operations Research. 48: 285-293 (1984).
  • Approximate aggregation of excess demand functions. In: Journal of Economic Theory 45 (1988), pp. 417-424.
  • Expectation formation and the dynamics of employment development. In: H. Scherf (Ed.): Employment problems of highly developed economies. (Writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik, New Series Volume 178). 1989, pp. 119-129.
  • A Set of Axioms for Neoclassical Economics and the Methodological Status of the Equilibrium Concept. In: Economics and Philosophy. 8: 51-82 (1992).
  • "Empirical Content" and Formal Economic Theory. In: Journal for Economic and Social Sciences. 112: 587-606 (1992).
  • On Bonanno's Logic of Rational Play. In: Economics and Philosophy. 10: 107-113 (1994).
  • On Mathematics and Mathematical Economics. In: Greek Economic Review. 17: 177-204 (1995).
  • Analyzing Games by Sequences of Meta-Theories. In: M. Bacharach, LA Gerard-Varet, P. Mongin, H. Shin (Eds.): Epistemic Logic and the Theory of Games and Decisions. Dordrecht 1997, pp. 265-292.
  • On the Relation between Ordinary Language and Formal Theory in Economics. In: R. Rossini, G. Sandri, R. Scazzieri (Eds.): Incommensurability and Translation. Aldershot 1999, pp. 157-171.
  • Axiomatization. In: JB Davis, DW Hands, U. Mäki (Eds.): The Handbook of Economic Methodology. Aldershot 1998, pp. 28-32.
  • A Logic for Changing Beliefs with Applications to Reasoning about Choice and Games. (PDF; 89 kB) In: H. De Swart (Ed.): Logic, Game theory and Social Choice. Tilburg 1999, pp. 68-76.
  • (With Thorsten Clausing :) Backwards Induction in General Belief Structures with and without Strategies. In: G. Bonanno, E. Colombatto, W. Van der Hoek (Eds.): Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory. Torino 2000, pp. 1-24.
  • (With Peter Kesting :) Formalism. In: JB Davis, A. Marciano, J. Runde (Eds.): The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy. Cheltenham (UK) 2004, pp. 283-298.
  • Logic, Game Theory, and the Real world. (PDF; 97 kB) HHL Working Paper No. 73, 2006.
  • Sustaining the World - Against Religious Maniacs and a Selfish Superpower? (PDF; 154 kB) In: R. Attwater, J. Merson (Ed.): Sustaining our Social and Natural Capital, Proceedings of the 12th Annual ANZSYS Conference. Mansfield 2006, pp. 309-314.
  • Axiomatization, Immunization, and Convention in Economics. Conference Proceedings “ECHE - European Conference on the History of Economics”. Siena, October 4-6, 2007.
  • with Martin Kelly: Global Economic Difficulties. In: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. (2009), pp. 231-244.
  • Leadership and Meditation. ( MS Word ; 186 kB) In: A. Gupta (Ed.): Proceedings of the Cambridge Business and Economics Conference. 2011, Cambridge University, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
  • with Martin Kelly: Philosophical Lessons from the Financial Crisis. Editorial. Philosophy of Management (2012)
  • CG Hempel: Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays. In: Michael Quante (Hrsg.): Kleines Werklexikon der Philosophie (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 402). Kröner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-520-40201-1 .
  • The Inverse Invisible Hand and Heuristics in Managerial Decision-Making . In: Philosophy of Management (2018), pp. 137–147.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Arnis Vilks new rector of the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL). March 31, 2010, accessed August 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ HHL - Microeconomics . In: archive.li . October 26, 2003 ( HHL - Mikroökonomie ( Memento from October 26, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on August 2, 2017]).
  3. ↑ HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management: Microeconomics | HHL Europe, Germany. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Service - karriere.de The top universities 2006/07 - karriere.de ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Arnis Vilks takes over the post of rector at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management - Education - Leipzig - LVZ-Online
  6. ↑ Business studies: In the course of money | TIME ONLINE
  7. ↑ Engelsdorfer Verlag. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 2, 2017 ; accessed on August 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.engelsdorfer-verlag.de
  8. ↑ author: HTWK Leipzig: New cooperation relationships in Africa. July 28, 2014, accessed August 2, 2017 .


personal data
SURNAME Vilks, Arnis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vilks, Arnis Augusts (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Buxtehude