Bengt-Arne Wickström

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Bengt-Arne Wickström (born April 6, 1948 in Borgsjö , Sweden ) is a Swedish financial scientist and science manager who has been a Herder professor at the Andrássy University in Budapest since 2014 and a visiting professor since 2016 . From 1992 until his retirement in 2013, he taught as a professor of economics at the Humboldt University in Berlinand there headed the Institute for Public Finance of the Faculty of Economics, in whose establishment he played a major role. Wickström combined his teaching activities with administrative and scientific-organizational work, with research and publication activities in his main areas of public choice theory, population economics, welfare theory, theories of old-age security and "economics and language". In connection with this, he is involved in the Society for Interlinguistics and the international Esperanto language community.

education

Bengt-Arne Wickström graduated from a famous boarding school in Sigtuna near Stockholm in 1967 .

In 1969, he graduated in physics and mathematics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick in US -Bundesstaat Maine as a Bachelor of Arts from. He then went to New York State , continued his physics studies at Stony Brook University and graduated in 1970 with a Master of Arts .

He then studied economics at the same university. His second Masters title he achieved in 1973 and his doctorate in 1975 on an economic system with varying preferences (English to economic system with changeable preferences ) for Doctor of Philosophy.

Teaching and research

After a year as a lecturer at Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) , Bengt-Arne Wickström joined the renowned Norwegian Business School (NHH) in Bergen as a professor in 1976 . In this city he remained full-time until 1988 and part-time from 1988 to 1992, but with interruptions due to research stays at the University of Mannheim ( Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship ). In 1986 he moved from the NHH to the University of Bergen .

From 1988 he taught as a full professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz , Austria . In 1992, he took a call to the Department of Public Finance at the Economics Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he remained until retirement, 2013.

Since 2003 he has also been a lecturer at the University of Lucian Blaga Sibiu , Romania, and since 2007 also honorary professor at the Universidad de La Habana , Cuba.

In addition to general finance, his teaching areas include welfare theory, the theory of old-age insurance and the area of ​​"economics and language".

Guest stays between 1995 and 2012 took him to universities in Orléans (France), Stockholm (Sweden), Bergen (Norway), Munich , Canberra ( Australian National University ), Paris ( Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne , France), in Haifa (Israel), Havana (Cuba), Ramat-Gan ( Bar-Ilan University , Israel), Rome ( La Sapienza , Italy), Shanghai ( Fudan University , China), in Bozen ( Free University , Italy) and Wuhan ( University of Science and Technology of Central China ).

As early as 2006 to 2010, Bengt-Arne Wickström and Jürgen van Buer dealt with the relationship between economics and language in lectures and seminars at the Humboldt University.

Wickström then formed the research group “Economy of Language”, REAL, together with Michele Gazzola and Torsten Templin. In 2013 she organized the conference “The Economics of Language Policy”, in 2015 the symposium “Economics, Linguistic Justice and Language Policy” and in 2017 the symposium “Language Skills for Economic and Social Inclusion”. From 2014 to 2019 she was connected to the cultural, social and educational science faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin and was part of the interdisciplinary MIME project (Mobility and Inclusion in a Multilingual Europe), which was funded by the EU Commission (7th framework program). It has been based at Ulster University since 2020 .

The aim of the research group is the further development and application of the economic approach and the methods of policy analysis in linguistics. Research focuses on language dynamics, language politics, the economy of language and language rights.

Editorial work

Bengt-Arne Wickström has served on the editorial boards of several economics journals: Journal of Population Economics (1988–2006) and Public Choice (1990–2016).

Offices

Bengt-Arne Wickström took on various administrative tasks and worked on a number of committees.

Since 1988 he has performed various tasks in the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS); Among other things, he was 2001-2005 chairman of the committee for population economics of the association and 2005-2009 chairman of the finance committee.

Since 1992 he has been a Senator of the International Academy of Sciences San Marino (AIS).

Together with Heinz Lohse , he led the symposium of European communication cyberneticists and interlinguists with the general topic " Cybernetical Visions - (Re) Vision of Cybernetics" in November 1999 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, both as host and as dean of the cybernetics section of AIS San Marino (Leipzig), Director of the Institute for Cybernetics Berlin / Society for Communication Cybernetics e. V. and Siegfried Piotrowski (Hagen), President of the Europa Klub / Society for European Understanding across Language Borders. V.

From 2001 to 2003, Wickström was Vice President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).

He made his contribution to further expand the university research cooperation of the DIW and to expand both the close connection with the Berlin science scene and international networking, especially in the European area.

He was the local organizer of the sixth annual conference of the European Society for Population Economics in Gmunden (near Linz), Austria (June 1992), chairman of the program committee and local organizer of the annual conference of the European Public Choice Society in Berlin (April 2004) and chairman of Local Organizing Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) in Berlin (September 2004).

In 1996 he worked as an external reviewer and member of the social sciences planning committee for the university structure concept at the University of Osnabrück.

Esperanto / interlinguistics

Bengt Arne-Wickström was privately and directly confronted with the problems of international linguistic communication in his academic work. His children, who became active in the Esperanto youth , grew up with English (mother tongue), Swedish (father’s mother tongue), Norwegian and German (languages ​​of the countries in which the family lived). Wickström also speaks French and Spanish.

This is why he was increasingly interested in problems of multilingualism , language learning and language justice.

Wickström already learned and used the international language Esperanto as a schoolboy and high school student in Sweden, but it was not until Norway and when he took part in the Esperanto World Congress in Warsaw in 1987 that he became active in the Esperanto movement and has been using the language for private and academic communication ever since .

He was a member of the organizing committee for the Esperanto World Congresses in Bergen (1991) and Vienna (1992).

As chairman of the local congress committee (Loka Kongresa Komitato) from 1995 to May 1999 he led the preparatory work for the 84th Esperanto World Congress in Berlin (1999), which was held under the patronage of the former Federal President Roman Herzog with more than 2,700 Esperanto speakers from 66 Countries on the congress theme "Globalization - an opportunity for peace?" Wickström looked after the honorary committee of the congress, which included high-ranking personalities from politics, science and culture.

More than 190 individual events - scientific, cultural-artistic and other - had to be coordinated in the implementation phase, in which Wickström was the director of the congress center (ICC) .

Wickström has been a member of the Society for Interlinguistics since 1993. He gave lectures at the annual conference in Berlin on the subjects of “Economy and Language” (2008), “Language Planning and Costs” (2016), “Cost-Based Language Planning” (2017) and “Percentage Rule, Local Authority and Successful Discrimination against a Minority: A few examples from Transylvania and southern Slovakia ”(2019).

The presentations were published in the supplements to the GIL bulletin "Interlinguistic Information", published 2009–2010 by Sabine Fiedler and from 2011 by Cyril Brosch and Sabine Fiedler

Wickström works with other GIL members on research projects, for example with Michele Gazzola, Cyrill Brosch and Sabine Fiedler in the MIME project. See also under fonts.

As the host, Wickström opened the joint interlinguistics colloquium for Wilhelm Ostwald of the Society for Interlinguistics, the Wilhelm Ostwald Society in Großbothen and the Esperanto League Berlin with an Ostwald exhibition of the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in November 1996 in the Economics Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

The occasion was Ostwald's lecture "The international auxiliary language and Esperanto", held in 1906 in the newly opened commercial college in Berlin , which as a university institution with a business focus with the economics-oriented university institute founded in 1886 at the Friedrich -Wilhelms-Universität was merged in 1946 to form the Faculty of Economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

With a view to the anniversaries, Wickström referred in his opening speech the words of Ostwald from 1906 "The concern of the old practitioners that the scientifically educated businessman would be too taught, that is, unusable, has proven to be unfounded." Also to the education of his students. And in the spirit of Ostwald, who stated that “The essence of this new movement lies in the knowledge that all areas of life are accessible to science”, Wickström emphasized the value of interlinguistics for his faculty as well.

Personal

Bengt-Arne Wickström is married to the US language teacher Judith Wickström-Haber and has been an Austrian citizen since he worked in Linz . His wife teaches English at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). He has two grown children. His son David-Emil (born 1978 in Bergen) is a professor at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg , his daughter Anna-Laura (born 1980 in Bergen) holds a doctorate in maths.

Fonts

  • with Michal Simon: Radio observations of filaments during the eclipses of September 11, 1969 and March 7, 1970. In: Solar Physics 20 (1971), pp. 122-129.
  • An economic system with changeable preferences. Dissertation. State University of New York at Stony Brook 1975, .93 pages.
  • with Peter J. Kalman: A dynamic nonlinear constrained optimal replacement model. In: Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 23 (1976), pp. 639-651.
  • Prepensely prejudicing preferences: Prologue to a probe of propaganda and proselytizing. In: American Economist 23 (1979), pp. 7-15.
  • with Lars Thorlund-Petersen: Price uncertainty, economies of scale and the competitive firm. In: Economics Letters 9.2 (1982-02), pp. 147-151.
  • Income redistribution and the demand for social insurance. Social Insurance (Ed. L. Söderström). Amsterdam: North-Holland 1983, pp. 21-33.
  • Economic justice and economic power: An inquiry into distributive justice and political stability. In: Public Choice, 43 (1984), pp. 225-249.
  • with Richard Dusansky: Money and transaction costs under uncertainty. In: European Journal of Political Economy / European Journal for Political Economy 1.1 (1985), pp. 21–44.
  • Free riders and band wagons: On the optimal supply of public goods. Public Goods and Public Allocation Policy. Series: State Allocation Policy in the Market Economy System, Volume 14 (Ed. R. Pethig). Frankfurt a. M., Peter Lang Verlag 1985, pp. 41-61.
  • Tax and Allocation. Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 33 (1986), pp. 517-526.
  • The growth of government and the rise of pressure groups. Efficiency, Institutions, and Economic Policy (Eds. R. Pethig and U. Schlieper). Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1987, pp. 39-57.
  • Ekonomiaj teorioj pri justeco. Scienca revuo, 39, pp. 3-16 (1988).
  • The Norwegian socialsecurity system: Present state and future prospects. In: Essays in law and conomics: Corporations, accident prevention and compensation for losses. Edited by Roger Faure Michael and van den Bergh. Antwerp: Maklu Uitgevers, 1989, pp. 163-184.
  • with Johann K. Brunner: Politically stable pay-as-you-go pension systems: Why the social-insurance budgetis too small in a democracy. Journal of Economics / Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Suppl. 7 (1993), pp. 177-190.
  • Decentralization and pressure group activities . In: Optimal decisions in markets and planned economies. Richard Quandt and Dušan Tříska (eds.), Westview Press, San Francisco 1990, pp. 189–196.
  • Editorial: Symposium on: Social Insurance Economics. In: Journal of Population Economics 8.2, (1995-05), p. 135.
  • (Ed.): Symposium on: Social Insurance Economics . In: Journal of Population Economics 8.2 (199505), pp. 135-221.
  • with Werner Güth and Martin Strobel: Equilibrium selection in linguistic games: Kial ni (ne) parolas esperanton? In: Understanding strategic interaction: Essays in honor of Reinhard Selten. Wulf Albers, Werner Güth, Peter Hammerstein, Benny Moldovanu and Eric Van Damme (eds.), Springer, Berlin 1997, pp. 257-269.
  • What is intergenerational justice? Relations between generations (Ed. Ch. Badelt). ÖIF series of publications, 4 (1997) Vienna, pp. 47-57.
  • Comment on “The politics of European federalism”. In: Constitutional law and economics of the European Union. Dieter Schmidtchen and Robert R. Cooter (eds.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 1997, pp. 105-107.
  • Kio estas kostoj kaj utilo de lingvouzo? La kostoj de la eŭropa lingva (ne-) komunikado. (R. Selten, ed.). "Esperanto" radikala asocio, Rome 1997, 5-13. And in: Esperanto - Language and Culture in Berlin, Anniversary Book 1903 - 2003 , Editor: Fritz Wollenberg, Esperanto League Berlin (Ed.), Mondial, New York - Berlin 2006, pp. 203–215, Esperanto with résumé in German - ISBN 978-1-59569-043-2 .
  • Regulation of natural monopoly: A public-choice perspective. Approaches to and Dilemmas in Economic Regulation. Politics, Economics and Dynamics (Eds. A. Midttun and E. Svindland.), Palgrave Publishers, Houndmills and New York 2001, pp. 55-73.
  • with T. Brück (Ed.): The economic consequences of terror European Journal of Political Economy, 20 (2004), pp. 291-515.
  • Can bilingualism be dynamically stable? A simple model of language choice. Rationality and Society, 17 (2005), pp. 81-115.
  • Fairness, rights, and language rights: On the fair treatment of linguistic minorities. Public Economics and Public Choice. Contributions in Honor of Charles B. Blankart (Eds. P. Baake and R. Borck). Springer, Berlin 2007, pp. 81-102.
  • Ekonomiko kaj lingvo. Internacia kongresa universitato, 61a sesio (Ed. José Antonio Vergara). UEA, Rotterdam 2008, pp. 13-24.
  • Economy and Language. Interlinguistische Informations, Supplement 16 (Ed. Sabine Fiedler), Society for Interlinguistics, Berlin 2009, pp. 137-156.
  • Financial Policy and the Black Economy. (Series: Writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik.) New series, Volume 324 (Ed.), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, 196 pages.
  • Lingvaj rajtoj kaj lingva justeco. In: La arto labori kune. Festlibro por Humphrey Tonkin (Eds. Detlev Blanke and Ulrich Lins). UEA, Rotterdam 2010, pp. 97-103.
  • Public finance, fiscal competition, sustainability and social welfare. Series: Writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik. New series, Volume 330. (Ed.). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2011, 239 pages.
  • Language as a renewable resource: the capacity of different languages ​​to nostrify foreign elements. In: Florilegium Interlinguisticum. Festschrift for Detlev Blanke on his 70th birthday (eds. Cyril Brosch and Sabine Fiedler), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, pp. 193-208.
  • Rights for ethnic minorities and immigration / Rajtoj de etnaj malplimultoj kaj enmigrado. In: Littera scripta manet. Serta in honorem Helmar Frank (Ed. Vĕra Barandovská-Frank). Akademia libroservo, Paderborn 2013, pp. 718–728.
  • Sustainable survival of minority languages: an overview of some models. In: Dogma and Evolution. Contributions to the 60th birthday of Dietmar Meyer. (Ed. Jörg Dötsch). Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 2014, pp. 101-126.
  • with Michele Gazzola and François Grin: A concise bibliography of language economics. In: The economics of language policy. Michele Gazzola and Bengt-Arne Wickström (Eds.). MIT Press, Cambridge 2016. Chapter 2, pp. 53-92.
  • with Michele Gazzola (Ed.) The economics of language policy. MIT Press, Cambridge 2016
  • English-only language policy: The road to provincialism? In: Acta universitatis sapientiae, European and regional studies. 9, 1 (2016), pp. 71-76.
  • Lingvopolitiko kaj kostoj. Perspectives of language communication in the EU (Ed. Dominika Tekeliová). Constantin the Philosopher University of Nitra - Faculty of Central European Studies, Nitra 2016, pp. 125-138.
  • Lingva justeco: Optimumaj minoritataj rajtoj kaj ilia realigo. In: Internacia kongresa universitato, 69a sesio. José Antonio Vergara and Alexandre André (Eds.). Universala Esperanto-Asocio, Rotterdam 2016, pp. 5–16.
  • with Michele Gazzola and Sabrina Hahm: Are foreign language skills linked to income and employment? Empirical evidence from Germany and around the world . In: Yearbook of the Society for Interlinguistics (Eds. Cyril Robert Brosch and Sabine Fiedler), Leipziger Universitätsverlag GmbH, Leipzig 2018.
  • with Torsten Templin and Michele Gazzola: How important is demolinguistic concentration for the survival of minority languages ​​in a world of increasing mobility? In: The MIME vademecum: Mobility and inclusion in multilingual Europe. François Grin, Manuel Célio Conceição, Peter A. Kraus, László Marácz, Žaneta Ozolina, Nike K. Pokorn and Anthony Pym (eds.). MIME Project, Geneva 2018. Chapter 17, pp. 64-65.
  • with Michele Gazzola and Torsten Templin (eds.): Language skills, the labor market, and socioeconomic integration: Selected papers from a colloquium at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 2017 . In: Empirica 46.4 (2019), pp. 617–795.
  • The percentage rule for minority language rights: Inadequate or discriminatory. In: Język, Komunikacja, Informacja 14 (2019). Ilona Koutny and Ida Stria (Eds.), Pp. 72-84.
  • On the political economy of minority rights. Three ways to manipulate a minority: Goals, rules, and border poles. In: European Journal of Political Economy (2020): 101894.

Web links

Remarks

  1. What is meant is the movement to introduce an international auxiliary language

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD Herder Professorship
  2. Prof. Dr. Bengt-Arne Wickström Vice President-designate , DIW press release of April 19, 2000
  3. ^ Detlev Blanke: Interlinguists from Berlin. Bengt-Arne Wickström. In: Esperanto - Language and Culture in Berlin, Anniversary Book 1903–2003, Editing: Fritz Wollenberg, Esperanto League Berlin (Ed.), Mondial, New York - Berlin 2006, pp. 293–295, Esperanto with résumé in German - ISBN 978-1595690432 .
  4. a b Research Group Economics and Language , on erziehungswissenschaften.hu-berlin.de
  5. ^ Research Group Economics and Language (REAL) - About Real , on ulster.ac.uk
  6. GrKG / Humankybernetik, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 1999, "Mitteilungen", p. 135.
  7. ^ Fritz Wollenberg: From the interview with Prof. Wickström from October 16, 1995. In: Berlina Esperanto-Kulturo, supplement to the Berlina Informilo from December 1995, Esperanto-Liga Berlin (ed.).
  8. ^ Society for Interlinguistics eV - Conferences , on interlinguistik-gil.de
  9. Fritz Wollenberg: Interlingvistika Memorkolokvo por Wilhelm Ostwald en Berlin. In: Esperanto - Language and Culture in Berlin, Jubilee Book 1903–2003, Esperanto League Berlin (ed.), Mondial, New York - Berlin 2006, pp. 203–215, Esperanto with résumé in German - ISBN 978-1595690432 .
  10. ^ Wilhelm Ostwald: The international auxiliary language and Esperanto. Möller & Borel, Berlin 1906.
  11. Frank Zschaler: From the Holy Spirit Hospital to the Faculty of Economics. 110 years of statistic and statistical seminar at the formerly royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Unviersität - 90 years of the Berlin School of Commerce. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1997.
  12. Ulrich Becker / Fritz Wollenberg: A language for science. Contributions and materials of the Interlinguistics Colloquium for Wilhelm Ostwald on November 9, 1996 at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Interlinguistic information. Bulletin of the Society for Interlinguistics eV, Supplement 3. Berlin 1998. ISSN 1432-3567.