Dirk Ehnts

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Dirk Ehnts ( also Dirk H. Ehnts ) (born April 11, 1977 in Bremen ) is a German political scientist and economist .

biography

Born and raised in Bremen, he studied economics from 1997 to 2002 after graduating from high school with a diploma at the Georg August University in Göttingen . From 2006 to 2012 he was a research assistant at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg . In 2008 he was awarded his doctorate with the grade “ summa cum laude ”. From 2012 to 2014 he taught as a visiting professor at the Berlin School of Economics and Law in the subjects of macroeconomics , money and currency in Berlin , interrupted by a semester as a visiting professor at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin . In 2015 he moved to Bard College Berlin . From the end of 2016 to mid-2017 and again since May 2018, he has been teaching at the TU Chemnitz . In the meantime, he was visiting professor at the European University of Flensburg (2017/2018) and at the end of 2018 research assistant at Dr. Gerhard Schick (Member of the Bundestag), who then led the citizens' movement Finanzwende e. V. led.

Ehnts lives in Berlin with his wife and two children.

research

Ehnts is the German representative of Modern Monetary Theory . Since 2016, he has been holding a course on Modern Monetary Theory every summer as part of the Summer School at Maastricht University . In February 2019 he organized for the Pufendorf-Gesellschaft e. V. the 1st European MMT Conference. In July 2019, together with Pavlina Tcherneva (Bard College, NY) and Esteban Cruz-Hidalgo, he advocated the introduction of a European finance ministry (Euro Treasury) and a right to work (Job Guarantee). Ehnts has published numerous articles in specialist journals, in daily newspapers such as taz, FAZ and NZZ and blogs (including Macroscope and Ökonomenstimme ) and was invited as an expert to the Bundestag Finance Committee on the subject of TARGET2 . For Julia Herr ( SJ / SPÖ ), Ehnts played a key role in drawing up a Green New Deal in the course of the 2019 European elections.

member

  • Institute for International Political Economy (IPE), Berlin (member)
  • Samuel Pufendorf Society for Political Economy eV (Speaker of the Board of Directors)

Fonts

  • Dirk H. Ehnts: Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics. Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, 2017, ISBN 978-1-1382-9992-4 .
  • Dirk H. Ehnts: Money and Credit: A Euro-Pean Perspective. Metropolis-Verlag , 2020, 3rd revised and updated edition, ISBN 978-3-73161412-8 .
  • Hans-Michael Trautwein , Dirk H. Ehnts: Innovations and International Business Relations. Oldenburg: Carl-von-Ossietzky-Univ., Department of Further Education and Education Management, 2010.
  • Ole Christiansen, Dirk H. Ehnts, Hans-Michael Trautwein: Industry relocation, linkages and spillovers across the Baltic Sea. Oldenburg: Inst. For Economics, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. rer. pole. Dirk H. Ehnts. ( Memento from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: fu-berlin.de , November 5, 2017, accessed on November 5, 2017
  2. ^ Completing the Euro: The Euro Treasury and the Job Guarantee. | : .REC .: revista de economía crítica. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Leersch: German Bundestag - Experts want to keep the target system. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ AVISO - October 16, 10 am: press conference with Ocasio-Cortez advisor Bernal on the “Green New Deal” of the Socialist Youth. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ehnts, Dirk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehnts, Dirk H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen