Birger Priddat

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Birger P. Priddat (born February 13, 1950 in Leuna ) is a German economist and philosopher. Since August 2007 he has held the chair for economics and philosophy at the private University of Witten / Herdecke . From August 2007 to December 2008 he was President of the University, from 1995 to 2000 and from October 2013 to September 2016 he was also Dean of the Faculty of Economics.

Life

In 1969, shortly before graduating from high school, Priddat left the Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium in Uelzen and went to Paris. In the same year he began studying art at the Akademie am Lerchenfeld in Hamburg, which he broke off in 1971. He worked in steel construction (Eggers & Kerhan) and at a shipyard ( Blohm + Voss ). In 1974 he made up his Abitur in Uelzen.

From 1974 to 1979 Priddat studied economics , philosophy and industrial psychology at the University of Hamburg . After a brief activity in a management consultancy, he received his doctorate from 1980 to 1985 with Harald Scherf in Hamburg. After further assistant positions at the Institute for Public Finance (Engelhardt) and at the Institute for Political Science (Bermbach) as well as a research stay at the University of Vienna , Priddat was appointed to the Chair of Economics and Philosophy at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Witten / Herdecke in 1991 . From 1995 to 2000 he was dean of the faculty.

In 2004 Priddat switched to the Chair of Political Economy at the newly founded Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, whose President Stephan A. Jansen had received his doctorate. There he was also Head of the Department for Public Management & Governance . In August 2007 he was appointed President of the University of Witten / Herdecke, where he held the Chair of Political Economy. (He continued to represent this subject in a visiting professorship at Zeppelin University until 2014. ) In December 2008, he resigned as President in Witten and resigned from his position as Managing Director of the Private University of Witten / Herdecke GmbH after the university certified the bank's insolvency and the state government had a disbursement freeze on further subsidies, demanded a further three million euros from the private university and the ministry had confronted the university with the accusation of not having met the legal requirements for these million dollar donations. All allegations later turned out to be unjustified and not legally relevant. He also held a visiting professorship at the University of Basel on the subject of economics and religion and a visiting professorship at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen until 2013. Since 2013 he has held the Chair of Economics and Philosophy again and was Dean of the Business Faculty of the University of Witten / Herdecke from October 2013 to September 2016. Since January 2017 he has held a senior professorship for economics and philosophy for a further three years, with an option to extend.

In 2005 he was a member of the elite integration working group at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. 2010–2012 he was a fellow of the research institution "Center for Religion, Economy and Politics" at the University of Basel, in cooperation with the collegium helveticum. From October 2011 to October 2012 he was a fellow at the Center of Excellence at the University of Konstanz (cultural studies: subgroup ignorance). Priddat is a member of the Society for Socio-Economic Education and Science (GSÖBW).

Priddat is the publisher of various series:

  1. Contributions to the history of the German-speaking economy (with Rieter / Hamburg) at Metropolis / Marburg;
  2. Institutional and Evolutionary Economics (with Wegner / Wieland / Penz / Okruch / Wohlgemuth / Schefczyk), at Metropolis / Marburg;
  3. New economic library at UTB (Fink) / Munich.
  4. Contributions to the reorganization of the state , Metropolis / Marburg
  5. Economic philosophy (with grandchildren), Metropolis / Marburg

Act

Priddat's main research interests span economics. In the field of economics, this includes political economy, institutional economics, the history of theory of economics, theory of work , the topic of language and economics, and economic philosophy . In the field of political science, he researches and teaches political philosophy, political process analyzes, modernization processes, governance and network theories.

honors and awards

  • 2. Prize of the Thyssen Prize for Social Sciences , 1996. For: Rational choice, hermeneutics and systems theory. A contribution to subjectifying the actor to zero, In: Sociologia Internationalis. 33. Vol., H. 2, 1995.
  • Janssen Cilag Prize for future work (medicine). 2000. For: Economy - a contribution or contradiction to health and ethics? In: W. Braun, R. Schaltbrand (Ed.): Pharmakoökonomie. Methodology, feasibility and necessity. Volume of reports on the 1st symposium. Witten 1995.

Works

As an author (monographs)

  • The money and the common sense. About John Locke's attempt at an economy based on natural law. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1988.
  • Hegel as an economist. (Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften No. 403) Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990.
  • The ethical tone of the allocation. Elements of the Aristotelian ethics and politics in the German national economy of the 19th century. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1991.
  • Chance, fate, error. About uncertainty and risk in German economic theory from the 18th to the early 20th century. Metropolis, Marburg 1993.
  • Economic scarcity and moral excess. On the relationship between economy and ethics. (Hamburg: Verlag Steuer und Wirtschaft / now) Schmidt-Verlag, Berlin 1994.
  • The other economy. About G. v. Schmoller's attempt at an 'ethical-historical' economy in the 19th century. Metropolis, Marburg 1995.
  • Money, mind, credit. About some substantial phantasies of monetary theory in German economics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Faculty of Economics, September 1997.
  • Moral consumption. 13 Lessons About Buyability. Hirzel, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1998.
  • Theology, economy, power. A reconstruction of John Locke's economy. Metropolis, Marburg 1998.
  • Productive strength, moral order and spiritual power. Thought styles of German economics in the 18th and 19th centuries. Metropolis, Marburg 1998.
  • Work at Work: Different Futures of Work. Metropolis, Marburg 2000.
  • 'Le concert universel'. The Physiocracy. A transformation philosophy of the 18th century. Metropolis, Marburg 2001.
  • Declining education. Metropolis, Marburg 2002.
  • Theory history of economics. W. Fink (UTB), Munich 2002.
  • Morality and economics. Parerga-Verlag, Berlin 2005.
  • Irritated order. Modern politics. Political Economy of Governance. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006.
  • Incomplete actors. Increasingly complex economy. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005.
  • Structured individualism. Institutions as Economic Theory. Metropolis, Marburg, 2004.
  • (with U. Pasero) (Ed.): Organization and networks: Der Fall Gender. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005.
  • (with St. Jansen) (Ed.): Corruption. Unenlightened Capitalism - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Function and Consequences of Corruption. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005.
  • (with St. Jansen and N. Stehr) (Ed.): Demographie. Movements of a Retired Society. Multidisciplinary perspectives on demographic research. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005.
  • Modernization of the common good. Metropolis, Marburg 2006.
  • (with P. Koslowski) (Ed.): Ethics of consumption. W. Fink, Munich 2006.
  • Morality as an indicator and context of economics. Metropolis, Marburg 2007.
  • (with St. Jansen and N. Stehr) (Ed.): Future of the public. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007.
  • (Ed.): Neuroeconomics. New theories on consumption, marketing and emotional behavior in economics. Metropolis, Marburg 2008.
  • (with A. Kabalak) (Ed.): How much subject does the theory need? Economics / Sociology / Philosophy. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007.
  • Karl Marx. Communism as 2nd order capitalism: production of human capital. Metropolis, Marburg 2008.
  • (with P. von Maravic) (Ed.): Public - Private: Administration as interface management. Metropolis, Marburg 2008.
  • (with A. Kabalak and E. Smirnova) (Eds.): Economy, language, communication. Recent Insights into Economics. Metropolis, Marburg 2008.
  • Economy through culture. Metropolis, Marburg 2009.
  • (with P. Seele) (Ed.): The new in economics and management. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2008.
  • Political Economy. New interface dynamics between economy, society and politics. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009.
  • Politics under influence. Networks, publics, consultations, lobby. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009.
  • (Ed.): Nonprofit Economy. Between state, economy and society. Metropolis, Marburg 2009.
  • Organization as a cooperation. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010.
  • Change. The hidden side of money. Kadmos, Berlin 2010.
  • Why business ethics? Metropolis, Marburg 2010.
  • (with D. Sauerland) Endure freedom. Festschrift of the Faculty of Economics. University of Witten / Herdecke. Metropolis, Marburg 2011.
  • Performance of the social partnership in the social market economy. Codetermination and cooperation. Metropolis, Marburg 2011.
  • (with M. Schmidt) Corruption as order of the 2nd art. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011.
  • Actors, contracts, networks. The cooperative mode of economics. Metropolis, Marburg 2012.
  • The Impossible Democracy , NY / Ffm .: Campus 2013.
  • (Ed.): Institutions, rules, regulations , Marburg: Metropolis 2013
  • Homo Dyctos. Networks, people, markets. About the new me: market generated identities , Marburg: Metropolis 2014
  • Communication and Economic Theory , Cham, Heidelberg et al .: Springer 2014
  • We are tested to death. How to study intelligently despite Bachelor, Master & Bologna , Hamburg: Murmann 2014
  • Economics of Persuasion. Economy between market, communication and persuasion , Marburg: Metropolis 2015
  • (with Philip Kovce ) (Ed.): The task of education. University prospects , Marburg: Metropolis 2015
  • Expectation, prognosis, fiction, narration. On the epistemology of the future tense in economics, Marburg: Metropolis 2016
  • (with Philip Kovce) (Ed.): Unconditional basic income. Basic texts , Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019

As co-author (monographs)

  • (with J. Burkhard / University of Augsburg / Faculty of History): Classics of the German economy. Vol. 22 of the library of history and politics in the edition of the library of German classics (Ed. R. Koselleck) Deutscher Klassiker Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2000. (Paperback edition 2009)
  • (with St. Jansen): Electronic Government: a new potential of the modern state. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001.
  • (with Heinrich Wilms): Benefits and costs of the AGG for the economy. Analysis of the report 'Legal follow-up costs of the General Equal Treatment Act'. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009.
  • (with K.-L. West) "The Modernity of Industry", Metropolis, Marburg 2012
  • (with A. Kabalak) (Ed.) Uncertainty as a challenge for economic theory: ignorance, ambivalence and decision, Metropolis 2013

As sole editor (monographs)

  • Value, opinion, meaning. The tradition of subjective value theory in German economics before Menger. Metropolis, Marburg 1997.
  • Capitalism, crises, culture. Metropolis, Marburg 2000.
  • The moving state. Forms its ReForm. Notes on "new governance". Metropolis, Marburg 2000.
  • Neuroeconomics. New theories on consumption, marketing and emotional behavior in economics. Metropolis, Marburg 2007.
  • Policy advice: processes, logic and economics. Metropolis, Marburg 2009.
  • "Diversity, control and networks. Institutional economic expansion." Marburg: Metropolis 2012
  • (with Wolf Dieter Enkelmann): "What is ?: Economic-philosophical explorations. Definitions, approaches, methods, findings, effects", 3 volumes, Marburg: Metropolis 2014–2016

Co-editor agora42

Birger P. Priddat has been co-editor of agora42 magazine since June 2013 . It is time to practice economic philosophy. “Economics is an excellent analytical science - but it cannot help with the question of the meaning and purpose of doing business. It does provide functional explanations, but with regard to complex phenomena such as the euro crisis, financial crisis, banking regulation, climate management, etc., these are so different that one wonders whether economists understand the problems adequately, ”says Priddat.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Speaker portraits of the university lecture "Future Research Today": Prof. Dr. Birger Priddat .
  2. ↑ Source for biographical data: curriculum vitae on Priddat's homepage ( memento from December 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at the University of Witten / Herdecke.
  3. ^ Resignation of the President of the University of Witten / Herdecke (press release of the University of December 18, 2008, accessed on September 13, 2010)
  4. ↑ Witten-Herdecke University. Bankrupt university saved. sz-online May 17, 2010.
  5. ↑ Members | Society for Socio-Economic Education and Science. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Birger P. Priddat co-publishes the philosophical business magazine agora42. University of Witten-Herdecke , July 1, 2013, accessed on July 8, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Priddat, Birger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Priddat, Birger P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, former President of the University of Witten / Herdecke
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Leuna