Gerhard Scherhorn

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Gerhard Scherhorn (born February 21, 1930 in Hanover ; † February 28, 2018 ) was a German economist .

Career

Gerhard Scherhorn was the son of the future colonel Heinrich Scherhorn . After an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Hanover, Scherhorn studied at the University of Cologne and was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. After his habilitation ( economic political sciences ) in Cologne in 1966, he took up teaching and research in Cologne, Hamburg and Stuttgart . He became rector of the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics . Until his retirement in 1998 he was professor for consumer theory and consumer policy at the University of Hohenheim . In 1996 he was a founding member of the Association for Ecological Economy , on whose board he was active until his death. As a founding member of the Sustainable Economy Network, he was also involved in the development of the sustainable economy concept from 2009. Until his death he was co-editor of the yearbook Sustainable Economy.

From 1996 to 2003 he was director of the working group “New Wealth Models” at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy , then until 2005 he was head of the research group “Sustainable Production and Consumption”, also at the Wuppertal Institute.

In 2010, Scherhorn, in charge of the Ethical-Ecological Rating project group, published the appeal “Sustainable development needs laws for sustainable competition!”. The group has set itself the goal of "convincing civil society, business and politics that the competitive order hinders sustainable development as long as it allows the pursuit of competitive advantages that result from the passing on of costs to the environment and society."

Scherhorn died at the end of February 2018 at the age of 88.

Focus of work

  • Sustainable lifestyles
  • Work and the environment
  • Information and service society
  • Informal economic activity
  • Ethical ecological evaluation of companies
  • Sustainable consumption
  • Evolution of markets

Teaching assignments / consultations / memberships

Publications (selection)

  • Money should serve, not rule. The halting expansion of finance capital. Vienna 2009: Picus Verlag.
  • With Daniel Dahm: Urban subsistence. The second source of wealth . Munich 2008: oekom Verlag.
  • Ethical investment. A plea to consider ethical aspects when investing . In: Orientations to economic and social policy of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation, issue 4/2008.
  • Beyond efficiency . In: Hartard, Schaffer & Giegrich (Eds.), Resource Efficiency in the Context of the Sustainability Debate . Baden-Baden 2008: Nomos Verlag.
  • Financial capital between greed and responsibility. Zeitschrift für Sozialökonomie, 45, 2008, 156./157. Episode, pp. 3-13.
  • Sustainable development: The special responsibility of finance capital , in German and English. Erkelenz 2008: Altius-Verlag .
  • Consumer protection and the theory of the market . In: Lv Rosenstiel & D. Frey (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology , Volume III D 5: Market Psychology , pp 643-669. Göttingen 2007: Hogrefe.
  • Where is sustainable consumption? In: M. Hellwig & R. Hemker (eds.), Yearbook for Sustainability , 1, pp. 5-14. Münster 2007: Ecotransfer-Verlag.
  • Sustainable lifestyles: balance between having and being . In: Ch. Beck & W. Fischer (eds.): So that everyone can live , pp. 63–82. Erkelenz 2007: Altius Verlag.
  • Economic models and attitudes . In: K. Moser (ed.), Wirtschaftspsychologie, pp. 309–336. Heidelberg 2007: Springer Medizin Verlag.
  • The whole of the work . In: E. Lang, Chr. Busch-Lüty & J. Kopfmüller (Eds.), Resubmission urgent: Approaches for an economy of sustainability , pp. 98-120. Munich 2007: Oekom Verlag.
  • What does sustainable development cost? GAIA, 15, 2006, 94-95.
  • Half-day society for sustainability . In: C. Stahmer & A. Schaffer (Eds.), Half-Day Society. Concrete utopia for a sustainable society , pp. 19–33. Baden-Baden 2006: Nomos Verlag.
  • Equal opportunities for capital . In: K. Woltron, H. Knoflacher & A. Rosik-Kölbl (Eds.). Paths to Post-capitalism , pp. 79–94. Vienna 2005: Edition Selene.
  • Market and competition under the sustainability goal . Journal for Environmental Policy & Environmental Law , 28, 2005, 135–154.
  • Nature and capital: on the conditions of sustainable business . In: Natur und Kultur , 5, 2004, pp. 65–81.
  • What is happening in economics? . In: P. Hennicke (Hrsg.): How can what must happen? : To implement sustainability , contributions to a symposium. Wuppertal: Wuppertal Inst. For Climate Environment Energy 2003, pp. 21–43.
  • with J. Hoffmann: Clean profits: this is how you invest your money ethically and ecologically. Freiburg 2002, Herder.
  • with Ch. Weber (ed.): Sustainable consumption: on the way to anchoring in society. Munich, Ökom-Verl., 2002.
  • The logic of sufficiency . In: M. Linz (Ed.): Of nothing too much. Sufficiency is part of sustainability . Wuppertal, Wuppertal Inst. For Climate Environment Energy 2002, pp. 15–26.
  • with CH Wilts: The earth will be destroyed with weak sustainability. In: Gaia , 10, 2001, pp. 249-255.
  • Sustainability and capitalism: ethical reflection on economic goals. In: G. Altner (Ed.): Ethics and Sustainability: Basic Questions and Perspectives for Action in the University Agenda Process . Frankfurt am Main 2001, VAS, pp. 134–154.
  • Environment, Work, and Consumption: Microeconomic Aspects of Modern Consumption. In: D. Rosenkranz (Ed.): Consumption: sociological, economic and psychological perspectives. Opladen 2000, Leske + Budrich, pp. 283-304.
  • The productive use of free time. In: E. Hildebrandt (Ed.): Reflexive lifestyle: on the socio-ecological consequences of flexible work. Berlin 2000, Ed. Sigma, pp. 343-377.
  • with L. Bakker, R. Loske: Economy without growth striving: Chaos or opportunity? Report on a research project. Berlin 1999, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Studies & Reports 2)
  • with J. Hoffmann, K. Ott: Ethical criteria for the evaluation of companies: Frankfurt-Hohenheim guidelines , German and English. Stuttgart 1997, IKO - publishing house for intercultural communication.
  • The whole of the goods. In: KM Meyer-Abich (Ed.): From the tree of knowledge to the tree of life: holistic thinking of nature in science and economy. Munich 1997, Beck ,. Pp. 162-251.
  • Destruction of jobs and environmental degradation have the same cause. Wuppertal: Wuppertal Inst. For Climate Environment Energy 1997 ( Wuppertal Special , 7)
  • Wealth of goods versus prosperity of time: on the incompatibility of the material and the immaterial concept of productivity. In: B. Biervert (Ed.): Time in the Economics: Perspectives for Theory Formation. Frankfurt am Main 1995, Campus, pp. 147–168.
  • Consumer behavior and changing values. In: M. Henze & G. Kaiser (Eds.): Ecology Dialog: Environmental Managers and Environmentalists in Conversation. Düsseldorf 1994, Econ, pp. 196-221.
  • The insatiability of needs and the cold star of scarcity. In: B. Biervert (Ed.): The understanding of nature in economics: Contributions to the ethical debate in economics. Frankfurt am Main 1994, Campus, pp. 224-240.
  • Autonomy and empathy: the importance of freedom for responsible behavior. In: B. Biervert (Ed.): The image of man in economic theory: to the nature of man. Frankfurt am Main 1991, Campus, pp. 153–172.
  • The functionality of consumer goods markets . In: M. Irle (ed.): Market psychology as social science. Göttingen 1983, Hogrefe, pp. 45-150.
  • Consumer interest and consumer policy . Cologne 1975, West German publishing house.
  • Wanted: the responsible consumer . Düsseldorf 1973, Droste.
  • Sociology of Consumption. In: R. König (Ed.): Handbuch der empirischen Sozialforschung , Vol. 2, pp. 834–862. Stuttgart 1969, Enke.
  • The competition in empirical science. In: Hamburg Yearbook for Economic and Social Policy , 14, 1969, 63–86.
  • Need and need. Berlin 1959, Duncker & Humblot.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved March 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Obituary for Gerhard Scherhorn February 21 , 1930 - February 28 , 2018 , Association for Ecological Economy , accessed on May 17, 2018.
  3. ^ Sustainable Economy Network: Members. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ In focus: growth. In: Holger Rogall, Hans-Christoph Binswanger, Felix Ekardt, Anja Grothe, Wolf-Dieter Hasenclever, Ingomar Hauchler, Martin Jänicke, Karl Kollmann, Nina V. Michaelis, Hans G. Nutzinger, Gerhard Scherhorn (Eds.): 2nd year book Sustainable economy . 2., corr. Edition Metropolis, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89518-957-9 .
  5. ^ Obituary for Gerhard Scherhorn . In: Holger Rogall, Hans-Christoph Binswanger, Felix Ekardt, Anja Grothe, Wolf-Dieter Hasenclever, Ingomar Hauchler, Martin Jänicke, Karl Kollmann, Nina V. Michaelis, Hans G. Nutzinger, Gerhard Scherhorn (eds.): 6th year book Sustainable economy. In focus: the future of sustainable business in the digital world. 1st edition. Metropolis, Marburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7316-1339-8 , pp. 20 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Scherhorn on his 80th birthday: Congratulations from the Wuppertal Institute , February 18, 2010, Wuppertal Institute, accessed on May 17, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b Who we are ( Memento from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on habenundhaben.de
  8. ↑ Wuppertal Institute mourns Professor Dr. Gerhard Scherhorn. Wuppertal Institute, March 2, 2018, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Scherhorn, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2018