Christian Watrin

Christian Watrin (born July 29, 1930 in Cologne ) is a German economist and retired holder of the chair for economic policy at the University of Cologne . From 2000 to 2002 he was President of the Mont Pelerin Society .

Life

Watrin studied economics at the University of Cologne and completed his studies with a degree in business administration and economics. In 1957 he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. He initially worked as a research assistant at the Alfred Müller-Armacks chair , the founding director of the Institute for Economic Policy . In 1963 he completed his habilitation.

He was initially offered a professorship at the Ruhr University in Bochum and in 1971 he held the chair for economic policy at the University of Cologne as Müller-Armack's successor. At the same time he became director of the Institute for Economic Policy and editor of the Journal for Economic Policy . In addition, he received numerous invitations as a visiting professor and fellow at universities abroad. In 1995 he retired .

Watrin was a co-signer of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992).

Fonts

• On the political economy of the subsidiarity principle , Journal des Economistes et des sciences humaines, June – Sept. 2003.

Memberships

• 2000–2002: President of the Mont Pelerin Society
• President of the Friedrich-August-von-Hayek Society
• Member of the board of the Ludwig Erhard Society
• 1987–1992: Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Economics

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Watrin in the catalog of the German National Library
• About the person and list of publications on ipw.uni-koeln.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.