Charles Elworthy
Charles Elworthy (* 1961 ) is a New Zealand economist and social scientist .
Employment
Charles Elworthy, a son of the New Zealand agricultural entrepreneur Sir Peter Herbert Elworthy (1935-2004), holds a Masters degree in Economics (Cambridge) and International Relations (Yale). After a political science doctorate (1991) and habilitation (2001) at the Free University of Berlin , he taught there as a private lecturer and between 2004 and 2013 as an associate professor at the Institute for Political and European Science at the University of Szczecin . In 2011/12 he worked at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and in 2013/14 at the School of Geography & the Environment at Oxford University , where he dealt with ecological issues. He then worked as an entrepreneur in Oxford until 2018.
Earlier focus of his academic work was European integration and the relationship between institutions and psychology. In his dissertation published in Berlin in 1993 , Elworthy designed the model of Homo biologicus , which tries to explain the essence of humans on the basis of their phylogenetic and ontogenic development history. His unpublished habilitation thesis ( The Reciprocal Influence of Institutions and Policies: The Evolution of Governance Structures in New Zealand, 1840-1993 ) concerns the constitutional development of New Zealand in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Others
Since 1991 Elworthy has been working on the reconstruction of the Wartin Castle in the Uckermark district, inspired by the example of Anglo-Saxon educational institutions , initially with Hans-Joachim Mengel as part of the European Academy. V., since his return to the Uckermark in 2018, together with his wife in the Collegium Wartinum Foundation.
Publications (excerpt)
- Homo Biologicus: An Evolutionary Model for the Human Sciences. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-428-07749-0 (dissertation)
- Evolutionary Psychology. The Appropriate Disciplinary Link between Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences. In: Johan MG Van Der Dennen, David Smillie & Daniel R. Wilson (Eds.): The Darwinian Heritage and Sociobiology. Praeger, Westport 1999, ISBN 0-275-96436-1
Web links
- Dr. habil. Charles Elworthy . Mendeley,accessed August 9, 2014.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elworthy, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand economist and social scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |