Beat Kappeler

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Beat Kappeler (2015)

Beat Kappeler (born September 11, 1946 in Villmergen ; resident in Oberwangen ) is a Swiss economist , journalist and author .

Life

Kappeler attended the Flade secondary school in St. Gallen and completed a high school in Gossau SG . After graduating from high school, he studied world economics and international law at the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales at the University of Geneva . In 1970 he graduated with a degree in Political Sciences .

From 1977 to 1992 he was secretary of the Swiss Confederation of Trade Unions , entrusted with liberalization dossiers in competition, world trade and economic policy. Since then he has been a freelance business journalist and book author . From 1993 to 2002 Kappeler was an author for Weltwoche .

From 1996 to 2000 he was Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University Institute for Public Administration (IDHEAP) in Lausanne .

Kappeler represents market-based solutions in social and monetary policy. From March 2002 to October 2018 he was a columnist for NZZ am Sonntag . He writes columns in Le Temps , longer essays in the Swiss month and was a guest on the television show Arena .

Awards

He is married to Franziska Rogger , father of two sons, and lives in Hinterkappelen .

Publications

  • EU. No membership without a concept. The Federal Council is not suitable for the EU. Opinio, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-03999-011-X .
  • Economy for the brave. Plea for a future beyond template thinking. Verlag FAZ, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-933180-74-0 .
  • The new Swiss family. Family management and pension security. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-933180-74-0 .
  • with Karl-Heinz Hug and Martin Zenhäusern: Joseph Deiss and Switzerland. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-280-05216-7
  • What can economics do? On economic value, growth, change and competition. Collection of articles, Beat Kappeler (editor), Verlag NZZ Libro, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03823-331-2
  • Social, more social, most unsocial: the living environment, the world of work and the world market call for a new social policy. Verlag NZZ Libro, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03823-332-9
  • How the Swiss economy works. The last 50 years and the next. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03823-722-8
  • Hans Eisenring - you can learn everything. Biography. Stämpfli, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7272-1319-9
  • Passionately sober. For a free and vital society. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03823-913-0 .
  • State secrets? What we should really know about our state. Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03810-224-3 .

Web links

Commons : Beat Kappeler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luzi Bernet: Katja Gentinetta and Tobias Straumann replace Beat Kappeler as columnists. In: nzzas.nzz.ch. October 27, 2018, accessed October 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Honorary doctorates in the Faculty of Economics. University of Basel 1999, accessed on January 31, 2020
  3. ↑ a b Beat Brechbühl: Laudation B. Kappeler. Bonny Foundation, August 29, 2013, accessed January 31, 2020
  4. ↑ Freedom Celebration 2011: "The Return of Responsibility". Liberal Institute, accessed December 31, 2015 .
  5. ↑ «The politicians' search for solutions is simply ridiculous» in: Der Bund, August 6, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Kappeler, Beat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Villmergen