Erik Haendeler

Erik Händeler (born June 28, 1969 in Wuppertal ) is a German business journalist . The futurologist is a specialist in the Kondratiev theory of long structural cycles and applies it to the analysis and forecasting of macroeconomic developments as well as to identify appropriate solutions.

Life

Handel graduated from high school in 1988, completed a newspaper traineeship at the Donaukurier in Ingolstadt from November 1989 and worked there as a city editor. Then he studied economic policy, economics and communication studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since 1993 he has dealt with the theory of long economic waves ( Kondratieff cycles ) and later made this the subject of his master's thesis Germany in the 5th Kondratieff . Since 1997 he has also been working as a freelance business journalist in order to carry the Kondratieff theory into a broad public debate. In addition, from 2006 to 2012 he was a freelance researcher at Matthias Horx 'Zukunftsinstitut in Kelkheim .

Handel's work as a publicist and keynote speaker focuses on the significance of Kondratieff's theories for the present: In the knowledge society, prosperity will depend on social behavior. While machines used to increase productivity, nowadays prosperity can only be increased through a cooperative work culture. He explains the current financial and economic crisis since 2008 with the fact that the technological network around the computer has largely expanded and there is currently a lack of profitable investment opportunities. That is why interest rates are so low that there is a price bubble in the capital markets until the structures and success patterns for the next structural cycle have been implemented. With the help of the Kondratiefheorie he explains the connection between the monetary and the real world, which are otherwise divided in the neoclassical theory of economics.

In addition to his books, of which the ninth edition of his first work, The History of the Future , Handel published articles in, among others, the Rheinischer Merkur , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Financial Times Deutschland . He is a member of the economic committee of the regional committee of Catholics in Bavaria and of the Society of Catholic Publicists in Germany . He is the deputy Bavarian state chairman in the Association of Catholics in Business and Administration (KKV) and is committed to its project on the “new work culture”. He also belongs to the diocesan pastoral council of the diocese of Eichstätt .

Handel is married and has three children.

Prices

• 1998: Holistica Prize from the Munich pharmaceutical company Plantina on the subject of 6th Kondratieff
• 2010: Kondratieff Medal of the Institute of Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Publications

• The history of the future - social behavior today and the prosperity of tomorrow , Brendow-Verlag , Moers 2003, ISBN 978-3-87067-963-7
• Kondratieff's world - prosperity after industrial society , Brendow-Verlag, Moers 2005, ISBN 978-3-86506-065-5
• Prosperity comes in long waves (audio book, speaker: Thomas Lang ) Brendow-Verlag, Moers 2006, ISBN 978-3-86506-138-6
• Silver Revolution (with Christian Rauch), Zukunftsinstitut, Kelkheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-938284-38-4
• Health is becoming the engine of growth. The resources for disease repair are becoming increasingly scarce and innovation push is a new Kondratieff cycle structure in growth engine health. The future of our health system (edited by Friedrich Merz ). Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2008 German, ISBN 3-446-41456-8
• Why will the crisis carry us to a higher level of prosperity? in 22 questions to TOP speakers , (edited by Nadine Buschhaus), Gabal Verlag , Offenbach 2010 ISBN 3-86936-056-9
• On the Reality behind Money in Sectors Matter! Exploring Mesoeconomics (edited by Stefan Mann) Springer Science + Business Media Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-18125-2
• Nikolai D. Kondratjew (edited and commented by Erik Händeler): The long waves of the economy: Nikolai Kondratieff's essays from 1926 and 1928 . Marlon Verlag, Moers 2013, ISBN 978-3-943172-36-2 .
• Heaven 4.0: how the digital revolution becomes an opportunity for the gospel , Brendow Verlag, Moers 2017, ISBN 978-3-96140-022-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Erik Händeler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erik Händeler's website
• Internet presence of the KKV project on the new work culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compare the entry in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Short biography at the Horx Institute of the Future ( Memento from July 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Internet presence of the diocese of Eichstätt ( memento of March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 31, 2018