Dieter Schnaas

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Dieter Schnaas (* 1966 in Düsseldorf ) is a German journalist and book author .

Life

Schnaas did his Abitur at the municipal high school in Leichlingen . He studied history , German and philosophy at the University of Cologne . After completing his studies, he worked for the Rheinische Post as an editor until 1999 . Schnaas has been with Wirtschaftswoche since 1999 and has been an author and chief reporter there since 2004 . There he mainly writes essays on the philosophical background of economic issues.

Small cultural history of money

The almost 190-page book is a three-part essay that combines a (literary) history of money with an interpretation of modern banking and sovereign debt crises. Schnaas interprets these crises as crises of belief in money ( Latin credo - I believe). They are not an expression of market failure, not a result of greed and not an argument against stock market speculation, but the result of a politically induced system failure. The dip in growth in the industrialized nations and the abandonment of the gold standard at the beginning of the 1970s would have favored the emergence of a "financially liberal (social) state capitalism", the better or worse of which was based on the infinite production of debt . The gradual "realization of the credit illusions" on which we have built our future brings us a little closer to the real purchasing power of the present. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praises the "brilliant analyzes of literary works" and states that Schnaas writes "gripping, with impressive erudition, linguistic power and intellectual joy in combining". The Neue Zürcher Zeitung finds it "impressive how Schnaas likes to combine his considerable literacy in the canon of European cultural history with profound knowledge on economic (contemporary) issues". The Süddeutsche Zeitung thinks that Schnaas' book was written "very carefully, with many sources and concise quotations". However, she criticizes the fact that research into the causes of the financial crisis is neglected. Deutschlandradio Kultur criticizes the style of "baroque abundance", "metaphor-indulgence" and the "overly complex scholarly jargon".

Fonts

  • Small cultural history of money , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 3770550331 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page in the magazine Wirtschaftswoche ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiwo.de
  2. ↑ Calligraphies of the War In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 229, from October 2, 2010
  3. ^ Daniel Jütte: A medium with many talents. In: nzz.ch. November 23, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sz-shop.sueddeutsche.de  
  5. ↑ The character of money. In: dradio.de. December 23, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schnaas, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf