Felix Butschek

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Felix Butschek (born March 15, 1932 in Brno , Czechoslovakia ) is an Austrian economic researcher and economic historian.

Butschek grew up in a German-speaking family in Brno and studied law at the University of Graz . In 1954 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and worked from 1955 to 1962 in the Federal Ministry for Social Affairs and as secretary to Federal President Adolf Schärf .

From 1962 to 1987 Butschek worked at the Austrian Institute for Economic Research , initially as a labor market expert, but then also in the field of economic history and from 1981 as deputy head of the institute.

With the study “The Austrian Economy 1938 to 1945” published in 1978, Butschek completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna . In 1985 his book “The Austrian Economy in the 20th Century” was published.

Butschek was particularly concerned with modern institutional economics and as a “right-wing social democrat” he repeatedly took a critical stance against the “ New Left ”, for example in his book: “The Abolition of the Economy, or the Uprising of Irrationalism” (Vienna, Europa-Verlag, 1975).

Despite his retirement, Butschek published in 2002 “Europe and the Industrial Revolution” (Böhlau Verlag, 2004), “Industrialization: Causes, Course, Consequences” (a UTB paperback) and in the same year “From the State Treaty to the EU” (Böhlau Verlag, 2004).

In 2011, as a result of his lifelong preoccupation with the subject, the "Economic History of Austria. From Antiquity to the Present" (Böhlau Verlag Vienna, Cologne, Weimar) was published.

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  1. ↑ Austria Forum | https://austria-forum.org/ : Butschek, Felix Austrian Economic History . In: Austria Forum . ( austria-forum.org [accessed February 7, 2018]).
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SURNAME Butschek, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno