Christoph Scherrer

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Christoph Scherrer (2013)

Christoph Scherrer (* 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German economist and political scientist . He has been professor for globalization and politics at the University of Kassel since 2000.

Life

Scherrer received his PhD with a thesis on the US auto and steel industries. He completed his habilitation in 1999 with a thesis on the implementation of liberal foreign trade policy in the USA. Scherrer has taught at the JF Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin and at Rutgers University in Newark, and received a JF Kennedy Memorial Fellowship at Harvard University .

Scherrer heads the two English-language master's programs (MA Global Political Economy and MA Labor Policies and Governance) in the Political Science department . He is spokesman for the International Center for Development and Decent Work, which has been awarded for excellence in development cooperation by the DAAD , co-head of the HBS and hbs-sponsored doctoral program Global Social Policies and Governance, member of the Steering Committee of the Global Labor University , which has trade unionists on four continents Master's level in political science and economics. Prize winner "Excellence in Teaching" from the State of Hesse 2007.

His research interests lie in the field of international political economy , in particular the control of the world market in terms of social and ecological sustainability.

Scherrer is a member of Attac's Scientific Advisory Board .

He comments on current issues in the daily media, for example in the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt or in the taz .

Works (selection)

  • Scherrer with Santosh Verma (Ed.): Decent Work Deficits in Southern Agriculture: Measurements, Drivers and Strategies. Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86618-896-9 , urn : nbn: de: hebis: 34-2018041755357
  • Scherrer (Ed.): Public Banks in the Age of Financialization: A Comparative Perspective. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2017
  • Scherrer (Ed.) Enforcement Instruments for Social Human Rights along Supply Chains , Rainer Hampp Verlag , 2017, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 34-2017082353301
  • Scherrer with Katja Radon, Andreas Haarstrick, Lars Ribbe, Reiner Doluschitz, (Eds.): Forced Migration - environmental and socioeconomic dimensions. Perspectives of higher education institutions in development cooperation : 19. – 20. October 2016, Berlin, Germany: 1st Exceed Conference Summary. Exceed Conference, Munich.
  • Scherrer with Alexander Gallas , Hansjörg Herr and Frank Hoffer (eds.): Combating Inequality. The Global North and South. Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-138-91685-2 ( book2look.com )
  • Scherrer (Ed.): The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Implications for Labor. Rainer Hampp Verlag, Mering 2014, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 34-2014110746361
  • Scherrer with Bob Jessop and Brigitte Young (Eds.): Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics. Routledge, Oxford 2014 ( routledge-ny.com )
  • Scherrer with Debdulal Saha (ed.): Food Crisis: Implications for Labor. Rainer Hampp Verlag, Mering 2013, uni-kassel.de (PDF)
  • Scherrer with Andreas Hänlein (ed.): Social chapter in trade agreements - reasons and suggestions from a legal, economic and political point of view, integration of Europe and order of the world economy. Volume 38, Nomos-Verlag, 2012.
  • China's Labor Question. Rainer Hampp Verlag, Mering, 2011.
  • Scherrer with Caren Kunze: Globalization. UTB / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011.
  • Scherrer with Thomas Dürmeier and Bernd Overwien (eds.): Perspectives on the financial crisis. Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Leverkusen 2010.
  • Scherrer with Brigitte Young (Ed.): The Role of Gender Knowledge in Policy Networks. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010.
  • Scherrer with Ute Clement, Jörg Nowak and Sabine Ruß (eds.): Public Governance and weak interests. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010.
  • Scherrer unwilling globalization? The enforcement of liberal foreign trade policy in the USA. Ed. Sigma, Berlin 1999.
  • Scherrer under the spell of Fordism. The US auto and steel industries in international competition. Ed. Sigma / Rainer Bohn Verlag, Berlin 1992.

Article (selection)

  • Scherrer with Elizabeth Abernathy: Trump's Trade Policy Agenda . In: Intereconomics , 52 (6), 2017, pp. 364–369 ( intereconomics.eu )
  • Scherrer: The Development Rationale for International Labor Rights . In: The Indian Journal of Labor Economics , (82), pp. 1–11, 2017, doi: 10.1007 / s41027-017-0082-3 , springer.com (PDF)
  • Scherrer Trump's trade policy agenda: more liberalization . In: Global Labor Column , Number 278, June 2017, column.global-labour-university.org
  • Scherrer with Anil Shah: The Return of Commercial Prison Labor . In: Global Labor Column , Number 269, April 2017, column.global-labour-university.org
  • Scherrer with Anil Shah: The Political Economy of Prison Labor: From Penal Welfarism to the Penal State . In: Global Labor Journal , 8 (1) 32-48, 2017, doi: 10.15173 / glj.v8i1.2774
  • Scherrer with Michael Fichter, Mark Anner, Frank Hoffer: The Global Labor University: A new laboratory of learning for international labor solidarity? In: Working USA. 17 (4) 2014, pp. 567-579. doi: 10.1111 / wusa.12139 .
  • Scherrer with Stefan Beck: The transatlantic trade and investment agreement: job forecasts and risk analyzes. In: WSI-Mitteilungen. 8/2014, pp. 581–589 ( boeckler.de )
  • Scherrer Neoliberalism's resilience: a matter of class. In: Critical Policy Studies. 8 (3), 2014, pp. 348–351.
  • Scherrer with Alexander Gallas and Michelle Williams: Inequality - The Achilles Heel of Free Market Democracy. In: International Journal of Labor Research. 6 (1), 2014, pp. 143-161.
  • Scherrer From financialization back to boring banking? In: Quarterly magazine for economic research. 82 (4), 2013, pp. 31-43.
  • Scherrer The post-hegemonic USA? In: Journal for Foreign and Security Policy. 6 (1), 2013, pp. 89-107.
  • Scherrer Reproducing Hegemony: US Finance Capital and the 2008 Crisis. In: Critical Policy Studies. 5 (3), 2011, pp. 219-247.
  • Scherrer with Joscha Wullweber and 2011: Post-Modern and Post-structural International Political Economy. In: Robert A. Denemark (Ed.): The International Studies Encyclopedia. Blackwell Reference Online.

literature

  • Ulrich Brand , Helen Schwenken, Joscha Wullweber (Eds.): Analyzing, Criticizing and Changing Globalization: The Critical Science Project. Festschrift for Christoph Scherrer. VSA Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-89965-724-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
  2. ^ "Cabinets for the Development of Productive Forces", in: Junge Welt, Supplement Capital and Monopoly, December 18, 2019, p. 7.
  3. ↑ Abolish it, but stroll [child labor], in: taz, June 18, 2004, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Scherrer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main