Erich Hoppmann

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Erich Hoppmann (born December 31, 1923 in Gelsenkirchen ; † August 29, 2007 in Marburg ) was a German economist .

In 1952 he received his doctorate at the law and political science faculty of the University of Würzburg with a dissertation on the trade margin as an economic problem . As a student of Erich Carell , he completed his habilitation in 1955 with a thesis on period analysis as a theory of economic dynamics . Via Nuremberg (1960), Nuremberg-Erlangen (1961/1962) and Marburg (1962–1968) he came to Freiburg, where he succeeded Friedrich August von Hayek in 1968 and taught economic policy and the institute until his retirement in 1989 for general economic research. Until 1996 he was still teaching at the universities of Bayreuth, Dresden and Jena.

In research, Hoppmann has mainly dealt with issues of competition and the analysis of systems of order, so in particular with the neoclassical theory of price and allocation, as well as that of John Maurice Clark developed concept of workable competition ( English Workable Competition ). At the same time, he intervened in current competition policy discussions, for example on merger control and the amendment of the antitrust law . His regulatory ideas were particularly influenced by Hayek. Both saw the market as a complex phenomenon, the results of which are fundamentally unpredictable. For this reason, Hoppmann rejects government interventions based on an efficiency-oriented approach.

He was also director of the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg and editor of the ORDO magazine .

Erich Hoppmann was the recipient of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Medal in 1999. In 1993, the Faculty of Law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen had awarded Hoppmann the Dr. jur. hc awarded.

literature

  • Viktor J. Vanberg (Hrsg.): Evolution and free competition: Erich Hoppmann and the current discussion . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-150257-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erich Hoppmann: Lectures and speeches on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Erich Hoppmann . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-3677-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hoppmann, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 2007
Place of death Marburg