Hans-Georg Petersen

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Hans-Georg Petersen (born August 20, 1946 in Kiel ) is a German economist .

Life

Petersen studied economics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Diplom-Volkswirt, 1973). In 1977 he was promoted to Dr. sc. pol. PhD . He was then a Heisenberg and DFG scholarship holder. From 1978 to 1980 he worked at the Institute for the World Economy . In 1983 he completed his habilitation.

He then took over a professorship at the University of Linz . From 1985 to 1995 he was a professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Most recently he was full professor at the University of Potsdam . He also held numerous visiting professorships in a. a. Moscow, Wisconsin, Łódź, Belgrade, Montpellier and Sydney. He was co-editor of journals such as Applied Economics Quarterly and quarterly economic research magazines .

Since 2001 he has been a research professor for the German Institute for Economic Research and as a consultant. Petersen is u. a. Member of the International Institute of Public Finance and the Verein für Socialpolitik .

He was co-signer of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992) and the Hamburg Appeal (2005).

Fonts (selection)

  • Personal income taxation and inflation. A theoretical-empirical analysis of wage and assessed income tax in the Federal Republic of Germany . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-261-02330-9 .
  • Pension security? The future of retirement . Physica-Verlag, Würzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7908-0507-6 .
  • Who bears the income tax burden? Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-17-010296-6 .
  • Social economics . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-17-010442-X .
  • Economics, Ethics and Democracy. Towards a theory of the efficiency and fairness of open societies . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7890-2979-3 .
  • Finance I . 3rd edition, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-17-012638-5 .
  • with Stefan Anton, Christhart Bork: Mixed financing in the German state financial equalization system. On the problem of community tasks, financial aid and payment laws . Shaker, Aachen 2000, ISBN 3-8265-8148-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ see list of signatories of the “Hamburg Appeal” (PDF), website of the Hamburg World Economic Institute ; accessed July 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel