Dirk Meyer (Economist)

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Dirk Meyer (born December 7, 1957 in Kiel ) is a German economist . He is a professor at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.

academic career

Meyer studied economics and business administration at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) and received his diploma in economics in 1982 and his diploma in business administration in 1983. He then did his doctorate in 1987 on labor market interventions in the Federal Republic of Germany. An analysis with special attention to dynamic effects for a doctorate in economics. In 1992 his habilitation followed with the thesis Technical Progress in Health Care. An analysis of the incentive structures from a theoretical perspective .

He was a professor at the universities in Bochum and Hamburg and has been professor of economics at the Institute for Economics at the Helmut Schmidt University since 1994 . There he holds a chair for order economics. His research areas include regulatory, competition, labor market and social policy, innovation research and European integration.

Political positions

Meyer was one of the signatories of the Hamburg Appeal in 2005 , in which the Federal Government was particularly keen to promote a strictly stability-oriented financial policy. He was one of the 68 main illustrators of the 2013 election alternative . In addition, from 2013 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Alternative für Deutschland party , but resigned from this position in July 2015.

Meyer became known to a broader public when he advocated the demand for the introduction of a North Euro and a South Euro , which was brought up for discussion by the former BDI President Hans-Olaf Henkel . Since 2012 he has been advocating a euro parallel currency system that gives member states the option of using national currencies. Meyer rejects the euro bailout policy as economically harmful, legally problematic and politically ineffective. He wrote several articles on economics.

In May 2018, together with Thomas Mayer , Gunther Schnabl and Roland Vaubel , he initiated the appeal The euro must not lead to the liability union! . This was supported by over a hundred economists.

Meyer is the author of the weekly newspaper " Junge Freiheit ".

Fonts (selection)

  • Labor market interventions in the Federal Republic of Germany. An analysis with special attention to dynamic effects (= European university publications / 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3820403280 . (also dissertation)
  • Technical advances in healthcare. An analysis of the incentive structures from an order-theoretical perspective (= Writings on Applied Economic Research , Volume 61). Mohr, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-16-146107-X . (plus habilitation)
  • Competitive reorientation of the voluntary welfare service (= Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften , No. 486). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-09615-0 .
  • For more competition in the stationary elderly care sector. Action required based on capacity prognosis for 2050 (= publications of the Society for Social Progress , Volume 24). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11104-4 .
  • Euro crisis. Exit as a solution? (= Wirtschaft aktuell ) Lit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11775-5 .
  • ed .: The future of monetary union. Opportunities and risks of the euro (= current economy ). Lit, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11918-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alternative option 2013: Founder and main draftsman . n. d .. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved on February 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ Die Zeit : Luckes reboot is now called Alfa , from July 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ Beate Kranz: Professor Meyer: Germany should leave the euro , in: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ Economists call: Europe must not lead in liability union on faz.net (accessed on May 23, 2018).
  5. ↑ One of his Junge Freiheit articles as a PDF on the Helmut Schmidt University website.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel