Georg Karg (economist)

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Georg Karg (* 1941 in Schreckelberg , Lindau district (Lake Constance) ) is a German household economist.

Life

After graduating from high school in Kempten in 1961 , Georg Karg studied agricultural science, economics and statistics (1961–1971) at the Technical University of Munich , Montpellier University and Iowa State University . In 1979 he became professor for economics of the household at the Technical University of Munich. From 1982 to 1984 he was director and professor at the Institute for Nutritional Economics and Sociology at the Federal Research Institute for Nutrition in Hohenheim.

From 1984 to 2007 he held the chair for household economics at the Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan. From 1998 to 2007, as dean of studies, he was in charge of the reorganization of the diploma course in nutritional science into the undergraduate bachelor's and master's degree programs in nutritional science and the non-consecutive master’s programs in Consumer Science (2004-2008) and Consumer Affairs (from 2009).

From 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture and from 2002 to 2006 of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Life Science Center of the University of Hohenheim.

research

Georg Karg's research deals with the following topics:

  • Markets: Explanation, prognosis and influencing of the prices of selected foods (e.g. beef and pork) in the USA and Germany.
  • Nutrition: Description and explanation of eating habits in a national and international context; Optimization of diet; Analysis and evaluation of communal catering companies under economic and ecological criteria.
  • Financing: Description of the financing behavior of private households; Optimizing the financing of owner-occupied housing.
  • Mobility: Description and explanation of mobility behavior and evaluation of measures to change mobility behavior.

Fonts (sorted by year of publication)

  • with GW Ladd: Econometric and Programming Analyzes of the Beef - Pork Marketing Sector. In: Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station Research Bulletin. 577, 1973. Ames, Iowa, pp. 657-679.
  • Income distribution and income elasticity of demand for food. In: Agriculture. Volume 22, No. 4, 1973, pp. 121-127.
  • with H. Lauenstein: An Econometric Model of the Beef and Pork Market of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: European Review of Agricultural Economics. Volume 3, No. 4, 1976, pp. 523-548.
  • Models for determining optimal human nutrition. In: Home Economics and Science. Volume 30, No. 1, 1982, pp. 34-47.
  • with M. Lehmann: Optimal financing of owner-occupied residential property. In: Home Economics and Science. Volume 31, No. 2, 1983, pp. 88-101, 152-165, 205-225.
  • with B. Bertele: The effective annual interest rate on consumer loans. In: Home Economics and Science. Volume 34, No. 6, 1986, pp. 21-32.
  • with K. Gedrich, A. Hensel and I. Binder: How Optimal are Computer-Calculated Optimal Diets? In: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Volume 53, No. 4, 1999, pp. 309-318.
  • Households and space. In: Home Economics and Science. Volume 51, No. 4, 2003, 183-188.
  • with AF Glogger and TW Zängler: Changing Activity Travel Patterns of Private Households through Telecommuting? In: H. Timmermans (Ed.): Progress in Activity Based Analysis . Elsevier, Amsterdam 2005, pp. 457-469.
  • with AF Glogger and TW Zängler: The Impact of Telecommuting on Households' Travel Behavior, Expenditures and Emissions. In: Ch. Jensen-Butler, B. Sloth, MM Larsen, B. Madsen, OA Nielsen (Eds.): Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2008, pp. 411-425.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Lienert: One of the oldest schools in Bavaria: The Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium celebrates its 200th anniversary on October 2nd. In: all-in.de , August 30, 2004 (accessed January 10, 2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Karg, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German household economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Schreckelberg , Lindau district (Lake Constance)