Ernst Heuss

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Ernst Heuss (born May 28, 1922 in Leipzig ; † April 4, 2010 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss national economist .

Life

Ernst Heuss was a son of the Swiss musicologist Alfred Heuss (1877–1934) and the younger brother of the ancient historian Alfred Amadeus Heuss . He attended the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig and also studied economics in Leipzig. In 1945 he received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and completed his habilitation in 1954 at the St. Gallen Commercial College . He then dealt - now as a Rockefeller Fellow in the USA - primarily with the American anti-trust policy .

From 1962 to 1966 and 1976 to 1990, Heuss taught as a full professor of economics, especially international economic relations, at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg , and in between (1966 to 1976) at the University of Marburg . His main research interests were international trade and competition theory. He contributed his market phase scheme (1st introductory phase, 2nd growth phase, 3rd stagnation phase, 4th shrinkage phase) to the theory of product life cycles. He was a member of the American Economic Association , the Mont Pelerin Society, and the Verein für Socialpolitik .

Most recently he lived with his wife Nelly in St. Gallen.

Fonts

  • Economic systems and international trade. Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich u. a. 1955 ( St. Gallen economic research series. 11).
  • General market theory. Mohr, Tübingen, Zurich 1965.
  • Basic elements of economic theory. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1970.

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SURNAME Heuss, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss national economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2010
Place of death St. Gallen