Brigitte Young

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Brigitte Young in her office

Brigitte Young (born May 26, 1946 in Groß Sankt Florian , Austria ) is a professor (em.) For International Political Economy at the Institute for Political Science of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . Since her retirement in 2011, she has continued to work as a researcher and expert for the European Commission and has also published numerous scientific and journalistic articles on the financial and euro crisis .

Life

Brigitte Young studied from 1978 to 1982 at the University of California, Santa Barbara and UC Davis and from 1984 to 1990 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . After obtaining the Ph.D. in International / Comparative Political Economy, she became Professor at Wesleyan University , Connecticut (1991–1997). Between 1994 and 1995 Brigitte Young was also a Research Fellow in “German and European Studies” at the “School of Foreign Service” at Georgetown University in Washington DC. From 1997 to 1999, Brigitte Young taught at the Otto Suhr Institute at Freie Universität Berlin . There she completed her habilitation with Elmar Altvater on the subject of "Globalization and Gender Regimes". From 1999 to 2011 she was Professor of International / Comparative Political Economy at the Institute for Political Science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Since 2011 she has been visiting professor at Science-Politique , Paris (CERI - Center d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) and at Science-Politique , Lille; at the JF Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin , the Center for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization at the University of Warwick , and the Central European University in Budapest . Her work and research focus are globalization, world economy, international political economy, financial crises and financial market regulation, world trade and WTO , global governance, and feminist macroeconomics (trade, finance and social reproduction).

In 2016 she was awarded the Käthe Leichter State Prize .

Young is a member of the Society for Socio-Economic Education and Science (GSÖBW).

Work as an expert

In 2000, Brigitte Young was appointed as an expert in the study commission “Globalization of the World Economy - Challenges and Answers” ​​of the German Bundestag , in which she worked as an adviser for two years. Since 2008 she has also worked on several projects as an independent expert and appraiser for the European Commission .

Brigitte Young is a member and head of projects of the research network " GARNET - Network of Excellence (NoE) - Global Governance, Regionalization and Regulation: The Role of the EU", which has been funded by the European Union since 2005 , at which European universities for the first time joint research projects on the context of globalization, governance and the European Union . She was elected as a board member of the NoE's management committee for the duration of the project up to and including 2010. From 2010 to 2014 she was a delegate in the administrative committee and, together with Christoph Scherrer, project leader of Working Group 1 ( Systemic Risks, Crises, and the Search for Financial Stability in Modern Finance ) of an EU-funded research project on the causes, dynamics and consequences of the subprime crisis .

As part of the five-year GARNET project, Young is coordinating the establishment of a "virtual network" in coordination with the business informatics specialists at the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). The communication and information platform aims to network cross-university research projects and activities. Brigitte Young also heads the GARNET research project “Gender in International Political Economy” (GIPE).

In 2007, Brigitte Young was appointed to the Warwick Commission examining the future of the world trade system, chaired by Pierre Pettigrew , former Canadian Minister of Commerce and Foreign Affairs. The Commission presented its final report “The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward?” On December 6, 2007 in Geneva.

Since 2008, she has also been an independent expert for the EU Commission , DG Science and Innovation, in the area of ​​macroeconomic funded projects of the EU-FP6, FP7 and Horizon 2020. She is also on the supervisory boards of the Global Labor University - Combating Inequality Research Project ( University of Kassel / University of Economics and Law Berlin ); Member of the expert group of the European Minister, Dr. Schwall-Düren, of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (2011–2014); Member of the Progress Forum - Growth - Prosperity - Quality of Life ( Friedrich Ebert Foundation ) 2011–2013; Member of the supervisory board of Gender Studies at the University of Cologne . Since 2011 she has been on the scientific advisory board of the EU-FP7 funded project FESSUD: Financialization, Economy, Society, and Sustainable Development , project leader: Malcolm Sawyer, Business School, University of Leeds (2011–2016). Brigitte Young is also a member of Attac's Scientific Advisory Board .

Editorships

Brigitte Young served on the Global Governance Editorial Boards . A review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (2005–2011), and the International Feminist Journal of Politics (2008–2012). Brigitte Young is currently co-editor of the book series Globale Politische Ökonomie (with Hans-Jürgen Bieling , Oliver Kessler and Andreas Nölke ), Feminist and Critical Political Economy (with Uta Ruppert ), as well as on the editorial board of the book series Global Political Economy of Gender and Sexuality , and the Journal of Economic Policy Reform .

Publications

Selected book publications

Articles in edited volumes and magazines

  • 2014: Financial Stability as Imaginaries across Phases of Capitalism, in: Bob Jessop, Brigitte Young, Christoph Scherrer (eds), Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics , London, New York: Routledge, 145-161.
  • 2014: The Power of German Ordoliberalism in the Eurozone Crisis Management, in Daniel Daianu, Giorgio Basevi, Carlo D'Adda and Rajeesh Kumar (eds.), Eurozone Crisis and the Future of Europe , Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 126-137.
  • 2014: German Ordoliberalism as Agenda Setter for the Euro Crisis: Myth Trumps Reality, in: Journal of Comparative European Policy , Vol. 22: 3: 276-287.
  • 2013: Global financial market regulation and consumer protection (with D. Schäfer), in: Quarterly issue of economic research , German Institute for Economics (DIW) (ed.), D. Schäfer, W. Semmler, B. Young, Sustainable European Consolidation Policy - Opportunities and Challenges , 82: 4: 45-56.
  • 2013: Introduction: From the dominance of the financial sector to a sustainable European consolidation policy (D. Schäfer, W. Semmler, B. Young), in: Quarterly issue of economic research , German Institute for Economics (DIW), (Ed. D. Schäfer, W Semmler, B. Young, Sustainable European Consolidation Policy - Opportunities and Challenges, 82: 4: 5-13.
  • 2013: Gender, debt, and the housing / financial crisis, Figart, Deborah M. and Tonia L. Warnecke, (eds.) Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life , Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 378-390.
  • 2013: Between Expectation and Reality - A Critical Review of the G20 Financial Market and Economic Reforms . Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Tobias Haas, Julia Lux (eds.), Die Internationale Politische Ökonomie after the world financial crisis, in: Journal for Foreign and Security Policy (ZFAS), Volume 6, Special Issue 5: 161-178.
  • 2013: Reflections on Werner Bonefeld's 'Freedom and the Strong State: On German Ordoliberalism' and the Continuing Importance of the Ideas of Ordoliberalism to Understand Germany's (Contested) Role in Resolving the Euro Zone Crisis, (Volker Berghahn / Brigitte Young) In: New Political Economy , Vol. 18: 5: 768-778.
  • 2013: Structural Power and the Gender-Biases of the Technocratic Network Governance in Finance, in: Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl, Susanne Zwingel (eds.), Feminist Strategies in International Governance , London / New York: Routledge, pp. 267-282.
  • 2013: Ordoliberalism - Neoliberalism -Laissez-Faire -Liberalism, in: Joscha Wullweber, Antonia Graf; Maria Behrens (Hrsg.)., Theorien der Internationale Politischen Ökonomie , Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 33-48.
  • 2013: Financialization, Neoliberalism and German Ordoliberalism in EU Crisis Management, in: Marcel Heires, Andreas Nölke (Ed.), Politische Ökonomie der Finanzialisierung , Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 63-787.
  • 2013: Macroeconomic connection between finance - trade - gender, in: Gabriele Wilde / Stefanie Friederich (eds.), In the view of the disciplines. Gender and gender relations in scientific analysis , Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 90-106.
  • 2012: There is no contradiction between the market and a social Europe, in: Gegenblende, September 18, 2012.
  • 2012: Global Financial Markets: Fairness and Justice, in: Klaus Kraemer, Sebastian Nessel, (Ed.), Unleashed Financial Markets. Sociological Analysis of Modern Capitalism . Frankfurt: Campus Verlag (in German), 387-402.
  • 2012: two separate worlds? Financial economics and gender research, in: Ingrid Kurz-Scherf / Alexandra Scheele (eds.), Power or economic law? On the connection between crisis and gender . Münster: Westphalian steam boat, 36-51.
  • 2012: Structural Power and the Gender-Biases of the Technocratic Network Governance in Finance, in: Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl, Susanne Zwingel (eds.), Feminist Strategies in International Governance, New York / London: Routledge, pp.267-282 .
  • 2011: The Role of Gender in Governance of the Financial Sector (with Helene Schuberth), in Brigitte Young, Isabella Bakker, and Diane Elson (eds.): Questioning Financial Governance From a Feminist Perspective , London / New York: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics 2011: 132-154.
  • 2011: "Neoliberalism", in Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino (eds.): International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2011. 1677-80.
  • 2011: The privatized Keynesianism, the financialization of everyday life and the debt trap), in: Oliver Kessler (Ed.) The Political Economy of the World Financial Crisis , Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. 2011: 15-36.
  • 2010: From Microcredit to Microfinance to Inclusive Finance: A Response to Global Financial Openness, (2010), in: Geoffrey RD Underhill, Jasper Blom, Daniel Muegge (eds.), Global Financial Integration Thirty Years On, From Reform to Crisis , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 256-269.
  • 2010: Lost in Temptation of Risk: Financial Market Liberalization, Financial Melt-Down and Policy Reactions (with Willi Semmler) 2010 in: Comparative European Politics , Vol. 8: 3: 327-353.
  • 2010: The Global Financial Meltdown and the Impact of Financial Governance on Gender (with Helene Schuberth), 2010: GARNET Policy Brief , Paris: Science Politique, 1-12.

Documentation

  • 2014: TTIP: The Invisible Gender Problem , Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin August 2014.
  • 2007: Warwick Commission on the Future of Trade, Final Report, The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward? University of Warwick, December 6, 2007.
  • 2002 (with Diane Elson ): Gender equality through gender budgeting? Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin October 2002.
  • 2002: Final report of the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag, Globalization of the World Economy - Challenges and Answers. June 2002.
  • 2001: Interim report of the Enquete Commission, Globalization of the World Economy - Challenges and Answers. German Bundestag, printed matter 14/6910, September 13, 2001.
  • 2000 (with Elmar Altvater , Barbara Riedmüller , Peter Steinbach , Martin Jänicke ) (Eds.): Berlin Studies in Political Science. Series of publications at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. LIT, 1998-2000.
  • 1992 (with Elke Biester, Brigitte Geißel, Sabine Lang, Birgit Sauer , Petra Schäfter) (Eds.): State from a feminist perspective. Working group “Politics and Gender” in the DVPW, Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Zahlenteufel" article in The European . Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  2. ^ "Germany's confusing role in the euro crisis" in the information letter on the world economy and development . Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ Members | Society for Socio-Economic Education and Science. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Final report "Financial Crisis: Causes, policy responses, future challenges" . Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  5. ^ Website of the EU-COST project IS0902 . Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  6. ^ Members of the FINE Expert Council . Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ Brochure "This is how we want to live" . Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  8. ^ Members of the Supervisory Board of Gender Studies . Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  9. ↑ members of the Scientific Advisory Board of FESSUD . Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  10. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
  11. ^ Website book series Globale Politische Ökonomie . Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  12. ^ Website of the book series Feminist and Critical Political Economy . Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  13. ^ Website of the book series GPE of Gender and Sexuality . Archived from the original on February 19, 2015. Retrieved on February 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Young, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Saint Florian