Christian Felber

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Christian Felber (2020) - with a typical hand movement
Christian Felber (2020)

Christian Felber (born December 9, 1972 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian author, dance performer and political activist. He is a founding member of Attac Austria , initiator of the Bank for Common Good and Common Good Economy project .

Life

Felber studied Romance philology and Spanish as major subjects and political science , psychology and sociology as minor subjects in Vienna and Madrid . He finished his studies in 1996 with a master's degree in Romance philology. Since then he has been working as a freelance writer. In 1998 he received working grants from the State of Salzburg and the Federal Chancellery for Literature.

Political commitment

Christian Felber co-founded Attac in Austria in 2000, was a member of the board until 2003 and one of its spokespersons until April 2014.

In 2009 he was a co-founder of the Austrian Movement Foundation , which ended its activity with the start-up aid for the Democratic Bank project and the Economy for the Common Good. In 2014, a cooperative emerged, the aim of which was to found the Bank für Gemeinwohl as the first ethical bank in Austria. The application for a payment transaction license (from September 2017) was rejected by the Austrian Financial Market Authority in June 2018, which is why the cooperative is now trying to expand the license-free financial services that had begun.

In 2010, Felber initiated the common good economy project together with a group of several entrepreneurs and is considered the inventor of the common good balance sheet . According to Felber, the economy for the common good is based "on the same constitutional and fundamental values ​​that make our relationships succeed: building trust, appreciation, cooperation, solidarity and sharing" and is "on the one hand a fully ethical market economy and on the other a truly liberal market economy." The movement of the same name is now active in over 20 countries in Europe, Latin America and Africa. Felber is a member of the "International Coordination Team".

In 2018 he was a founding member of the citizens' movement Finanzwende .

Scientific work

From autumn 2008 to 2017 Felber was a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .

Further teaching positions at the University of Klagenfurt, University of Graz (2013 teaching award), University of Applied Arts in Vienna, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, University of Applied Sciences Burgenland and Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University. In 2018 Felber became a Senior Fellow at the IASS in Potsdam. Currently ( as of October 2019 ) he is leading a research project there as an affiliate scholar on non-financial reporting by companies.

Felber is also a member of the advisory board for the MBA Trend and Sustainability Management at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Economics and Environment .

Felber writes media comments in German, English and Spanish. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications. His publication Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie appeared in twelve languages, the English version contains a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Eric Maskin .

Art related activities

Felber has been a part-time contemporary dancer since 2004, including at the Tanzsommer in Graz in 2005 , at the dance with A. Stavridi at the 2016 Gemeinwohl Festival , at Common Good Dance in the Albert Hall, Brussels and with the Cie. Willi Dorner . He also published a volume of poetry in 1999.

Schoolbook controversy 2016

In an open letter to Education Minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek on April 7, 2016, 110 economists criticized the presentation of Felber's theory in Austrian school books. As an economic theorist, he is placed in the ranks of John Maynard Keynes , Karl Marx , Milton Friedman and Friedrich August von Hayek . Felber appears primarily as a political activist, has no economic training and has no economic publications. "The common good theory propagated by Felber does not meet the usual scientific criteria."

Felber was surprised by the mention of his name in a row with historical figures within a graph, but pointed out that Adam Smith was not an economist either. To the criticism towards the Ministry of Education replaced Felber by Amartya Sen .

Fonts

Awards

Web links

Commons : Christian Felber  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. mitgruenden.at, website of the cooperative, in which Felber is deputy chairman of the supervisory board ; Retrieved July 4, 2017.
  2. derStandard.at: Gemeinwohlbank has failed, two thirds of the capital gone . Article dated June 15, 2018, accessed June 17, 2018.
  3. ecogood.org Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  4. AK Internationale Koordination , on: Homepage of the Common Good Economy, 2016
  5. ^ Founding members. Citizens' Movement Finanzwende, archived from the original on July 6, 2020 ; accessed on July 6, 2020 .
  6. Lectures on the topic: Social Context of Economic Action - Course Catalog
  7. www.hfwu.de , accessed on March 4, 2020
  8. ^ Children's dance piece Piri and Bear , christian-felber.at
  9. vimeo.com: A Dance for Attac (Video)
  10. Christian Felber as an economic theorist in a textbook: an open letter - critically thought. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
  11. Lukas Sustala: Economists run storm against Felber in the textbook. In: NZZ . April 7, 2016, archived from the original on March 4, 2020 ; accessed on March 4, 2020 .
  12. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Economists want to delete ex-Attac activist Felber from textbook . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 22, 2017]).
  13. Archived copy ( Memento of March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. uvirtual.net: Premio Nueva Civilización 2014 ( Memento from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  15. getAbstract getabstract.com: International Book Award 2014
  16. http://fundacionjosenavarro.org/premio-verde-en-el-ambito-privado-2015/
  17. http://www.zeit-verlagsgruppe.de/presse/2017/03/drei-initiativen-mit-dem-zeit-wissen-preis-mut-zur-nachhaltigkeit-ausgezeich/
  18. http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_hoexter/steinheim/steinheim/21976919_Reineccius-Medaille-an-oesterreichischen-Querdenker.html
  19. http://www.catalunyapress.cat/texto-diario/mostrar/951006/igualtat-gnere-i-immigracio-protagonistes-festival-cinema-i-drets-humans
  20. JBZ team selected the top ten future literature 2017 . In: The Robert Jungk Library for Future Issues (JBZ) . November 29, 2017 ( jungk-bibliothek.org [accessed January 10, 2018]).