Bertram Schefold

Bertram Schefold (born December 28, 1943 in Basel ) is a Swiss economist . Schefold is professor of economics , especially economic theory with a focus on capital theory and the history of economic theories at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

life and work

Schefold's father, the archaeologist Karl Schefold , and his mother, Marianne Schefold, née von den Steinen, daughter of Karl von den Steinen , emigrated from Germany to Switzerland in the 1930s. Schefold attended the Humanist Gymnasium in Basel and in 1967 graduated from Munich, Basel and Hamburg with a diploma in mathematics, theoretical physics and philosophy. After he was President of the Association of Swiss Student Unions in Bern for a year , he studied political economy in Basel and Cambridge (GB). After receiving his doctorate, he was lecturer in mathematical economics in Basel from 1971 to 1972, then visiting scholar at Trinity College in Cambridge and research associate at Harvard .

Since 1974 Bertram Schefold has been a full professor in the economics department of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . He was dean there (1981–1982) and held numerous visiting professorships: Nice 1977, 1993; Toulouse 1992, 1993; New School for Social Research New York 1984; Rome 1985; Venice 1990; later several times in East Asia. He taught for ten years at the Center of Advanced Economic Studies in Trieste (1981–1990). In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the law faculty of the University of Tübingen , and in 2005 from the Università degli studi di Macerata in Italy. He is also an honorary member of the Stefan George Society. On December 14, 2010, the Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, awarded him the Thomas Guggenheim Prize in the History of Economics for his life's work in dogma as the first prize winner. A first commemorative publication from his students was published in 2008. After his retirement at the end of the winter semester 2011/12, he will remain in the department as a senior professor .

Schefold's main research interests are economic theory, capital theory and the theory of joint production. Since 1980 he has increasingly turned to the history of economic theory; in addition, environmental policy and energy analysis. From 1991 to 2002 he was the managing editor of the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie . Bertram Schefold is also a member of the scientific advisory committee for the publication of the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) by the international Marx-Engels Foundation. He has been an advisor to the German Bundestag and state parliaments on energy policy several times .

From 1995 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Council and from 2000 to 2002 President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought , today Honorary President. He works in several committees of the Verein für Socialpolitik and other professional associations in Germany. In Frankfurt he is a member of the Scientific Society at the JW Goethe University, is a member of the Presidium of the Frankfurt Society for Trade, Industry and Science and is Honorary President of the Swiss-German Business Club . He was also chairman of the Stefan George Society in Bingen from 1995–2009 ; He has published several times on George, his circle and the economists belonging to him.

On September 14, 2014, Schefold spoke at a conference at the Weikersheim Study Center on the subject of “Europe quo vadis? The economic crisis and its consequences for integration ”.

Main publications

Piero Sraffa's theory of joint production, capital and rent. Diss. (In English: Mr. Sraffa on Joint Production. Private printing, 1971, revised edition: Mr. Sraffa on Joint Production and other Essays. Unwin & Hyman, 1989).
Floating, realignment, integration. Vol. 9. Conversations of the List Gesellschaft Kyk., Mohr, 1972.
Economic styles. Vol. 1: Studies on the relationship between economy and culture and economic styles. Vol. 2: Studies on economic theory and the future of technology. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994 and 1995.
Normal Prices, Technical Change and Accumulation. Macmillan, 1996. ISBN 978-0-333-62129-5

as editor

with Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich : How would we like to live in the future? The social compatibility of energy systems. Volume 1, CH Beck, Munich 1981.
with Hans Christoph Binswanger , H. Frisch, Hans G. Nutzinger et al .: Work without environmental destruction. Strategies for a New Economic Policy. Fischer 1983, 1988.
with Klaus-Michael Meyer-Abich: The limits of the nuclear industry. CH Beck, Munich 1986, 5 editions. ISBN 3-406-31317-5
Economic classic in upheaval. Theoretical articles by D. Ricardo, A. Marshall, VK Dmitriev u. P. Sraffa. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-28227-1
Studies for the Development of Economic Theory. VII, VIII, X, XI, Duncker & Humblot, 1989, 1990, 1992.
with Krishna Bharadwaj : Essays in Honor of Piero Sraffa: Critical Perspectives on New Developments of Classical Theory. Unwin & Hyman, 1990, new edition. Routledge, now Taylor & Francis 1992
with Volker Caspari (ed.): Where is economic science heading? A methodological dispute in economics , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-593-39383-4

literature

Volker Caspari (Hrsg.): Theory and history of the economy. Festschrift for Bertram Schefold. Metropolis, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89518-715-5 .
Georg Stamatis: On Schefold's introduction to the third volume of the capital ( MEGA ² II / 15). In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 2018/19 . Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86754-685-0 , pp. 234-255.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Events Homepage of the Study Center, accessed: November 28, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Schefold, Bertram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel

[1] Events Homepage of the Study Center, accessed: November 28, 2014.