Ernst Mohr (economist)

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Ernst-Ulrich Josef Mohr (born August 29, 1955 in Konstanz ) is a German economist .

Life

Ernst Mohr studied economics at the University of Konstanz (diploma in 1981) and received his doctorate in 1985 from the London School of Economics ( Ph.D. ) with the thesis Common Access and Strategic Considerations in Natural Resource Exploration . From 1986 to 1989 he worked at the chair for international economic relations at the University of Konstanz, from 1990 to 1994 he headed the research department "Resource Economics " at the Institute for World Economy in Kiel. In 1991 he qualified as a professor for economics at the University of Konstanz. In 1995 he was appointed full professor of economics at the University of St. Gallen with a special focus on the relationship between economy and ecology.

From 2005 to 2011, Ernst Mohr headed the University of St. Gallen as Rector , after having already been a member of the Rectorate as Vice Rector from 1999 to 2005 .

Research priorities

Mohr dedicated his scientific work to various topics: scarcity of natural resources (1980s), international indebtedness of sovereign states (1980s / 1990s), international environmental protection cooperation (until the end of the 1990s). After working in university management, since 2001 he has been working on a topic that economics had not dealt with before: taste.

Fonts (selection)

  • Punk economy. Stylistic exploitation of the social fringes. kursbuch.edition, Sven Murmann Verlagsgesellschaft, 2016, ISBN 978-3-946514-15-2 .
  • with Hans Amstutz (ed.) The scientific stylistic system. 2015.
  • with Robert Waldburger, Peter Sester, Christoph Peter, Charlotte M. Baer (eds.): PressArt viewed from the front and back: What (economic) science can learn from art. 2015.
  • Economy with Taste: The Postmodern Power of Consumption. 2014.
  • The Transfer of Economic Knowledge. 1999.
  • with Manfred Gärtner (Ed.): The making of applied economists: Challenges for undergraduate curricula. 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New rectorate of the HSG elected. In: alma. The alumni magazine of the University of St. Gallen. 1999, no. 1, p. 8 f. ( online ; PDF; 2.5 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohr, Ernst-Ulrich Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy