Burkhard Strümpel

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Burkhard Strümpel (born 1935 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; died 1990 in Berlin ) was a German economist and professor of business administration at the Institute for Empirical Market and Social Research at the Free University of Berlin .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1952, working in industry and studying business administration at the University of Cologne , he initially worked as an academic assistant to Günter Schmölders . He then moved to the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor. There he works in the “Economic Behavior Program” at the Institute for Social Research under the direction of George Katona . In 1962 he returned to Cologne to the research center for empirical socio-economics headed by Günter Schmölders, where he received his doctorate and habilitation (1967) at the University of Cologne. During this time he attended the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Center for Studies in Education and Development at Harvard University from 1964–65 .

In 1968 Burkhard Strümpel became an associate professor at the University of Michigan . There he was appointed director of the "Economic Behavior Program" and then worked from 1971 to 1976 as a full professor. In 1976 he returned to Germany and became a fellow at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin (WZB). In 1977 Strümpel was appointed to a chair at the Free University of Berlin .

Burkhard Strümpel was a member of various scientific and non-scientific institutions. In the United States, he was a member of the American Academy of Sciences , the National Research Council, and the Committee on Mineral Resources and the Environment. In Germany he was a. a. Member of the board of trustees of Stiftung Warentest .

effect

His main research interests were in the areas of empirical market, social and economic research. A large number of papers have been produced on the subject of indicators of subjective well-being, value change and change in work as well as on environmental economics.

Fonts (selection)

  • Economic development as human behavior . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1964.
  • Tax system and economic development: function and technique of personal taxation in socio-economic change. Mohr (P. Siebeck), Tübingen, 1968.
  • (with G. Katona and E. Zahn.) Aspirations and affluence. Comparative studies in the United States and Western Europe . McGraw-Hill, New York, 1971.
  • (As editor), Subjective elements of well-being. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 1974.
  • The model1 of a humane economy. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1977.
  • (with G. Katona) A new economic era. Elsevier, New York, 1978.
  • (with C. Graf Hoyos, W. Kroeber-Riel and L. von Rosenstiel (eds.)) Basic concepts of economic psychology: overall economy, market, organization. Kösel, Munich, 1980.
  • (with M. Bolle (Ed.)) Analytical and empirical aspects of the organization of working hours at the company and inter-company level. Minerva, Munich, 1982.
  • (with HC Binswanger) Work without environmental destruction. Strategies for a New Economic Policy. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1988.
  • (with E. Noelle-Neumann) Does work make you sick - does work make you happy? Piper, Munich, 1984.
  • (with M. Dierkes (Ed.)) Little work, but much to do. New ways of labor market policy. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, 1985.
  • (with D. Yankelovich, H. Zetterberg and M. Shanks) The world at work. Octagon Books, New York, 1985.
  • (With H. Bielenski.) Limited employment for women and men. Edition sigma, Berlin 1988.

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SURNAME Strümpel, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death Berlin