Hans-Heinrich Bass

Hans-Heinrich Bass (2007)

Hans-Heinrich Bass (born April 1, 1954 in Kamen , North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German economist and economic historian . Bass has been a professor of economics with a focus on international economic relations at the University of Bremen since 2000 . He is the director of the Institute for Transport and Development.

Life

Bass graduated from high school in 1972 at the Leibniz Gymnasium in Dortmund . From 1972 to 1978 he studied economics , economic and social history as well as ethnology and psychology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and graduated with a degree in economics. As a recognized conscientious objector, he then did two years of community service .

Bass completed internal training at the Goethe Institute in the areas of foreign cultural policy and language teaching and then worked as a lecturer at the Goethe Institute, including at Tongji University in Shanghai .

In 1990 he received his PhD from Richard H. Tilly in Münster with an economic and social history dissertation. rer. pole. PhD.

Hans-Heinrich Bass was a research associate at the Small Enterprise Promotion and Training Program (today Leipzig University ) and assistant professor at the Institute for World Economy and International Management at the University of Bremen . From 2000 to 2020 he was director of the international economics course. As a visiting professor he taught at Aichi University , Toyohashi ( Japan ), at the University of Benin, Benin City (Nigeria), the Academy for Foreign Trade, Moscow ( Russia ), the Jiaotong Daxue (Transport University ) in Xi'an ( China ) and Jacobs University , Bremen .

Bass is a certified mediator and lecturer in the field of communication and industrial psychology at the Academic Teaching Institute for Psychology of the Vienna University of Applied Sciences of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce .

Honorary positions

Bass worked on a voluntary basis, among other things, as spokesman for the scientific advisory board of the Northwest German Museum for Industrial Culture and as state chairman of the university teachers' association in Bremen.

He is a member of the nationwide selection committee of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung for student funding .

research

Bass conducts research on issues relating to the world economy , development economics , and social and economic history.

He is co-editor of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook and has provided scientific advice to several international organizations and non-governmental development aid organizations ( NGOs ). a. the United Nations industrial development organization , WWF ( Worldwide Fund for Nature ), Deutsche Welthungerhilfe and foodwatch .

Positions

Bass represents - on the basis of a critical rationalism - a “heterodox” approach in his economic work, whereby initially neo-Marxist, later more neo-Schumpeterian influences predominated . As a student of Richard H. Tilly , he is methodically classified as a (moderate) cliometrician in economic history . Together with Michaela von Freyhold , Robert Kappel , Karl Wohlmuth and others, he belongs to the Bremen School of Development Economics.

Bass advocates an ecological turnaround in global agriculture, an innovation-oriented industrial policy geared towards small and medium-sized companies, and greater control of transnational companies and international financial markets by the international community.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and specialist articles

Hunger crises in Prussia during the first half of the 19th century (= studies on economic and social history. Vol. 8). Scripta Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1991.
The food situation in African Least Developed Countries in the 1980s, an overview with case studies from Rwanda, Guinea-Bissau and Mali. in: KM Khan (ed.): The poorest countries in the world economy: Development bottlenecks and prospects of the LLDCs. German Overseas Institute, Hamburg 1992.
China: Which human rights policy towards a global economic power? Heinrich Böll Foundation, Cologne 1996.
JA Schumpeter: An introduction. Guest lectures at Aichi University. University of Bremen, Bremen 1998.
YES Schumpeter. Innovation and creative destruction: the entrepreneur as the engine of development. In: Development and Cooperation. No. 7/8 (July / August 1999), pp. 215-218 ( online ).
Between foreign trade interests and human rights: What can a consistent German stance on China look like? In: 50 Years of the People's Republic of China. International Society for Human Rights, Frankfurt am Main 1999.
Export Dynamics in Taiwan and Mainland China 1950–2000: A Schumpeterian Approach. In: AJH Latham, Heita Kawakatsu (ed.): Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000. Routledge, London / New York 2000, pp. 117-148.
(with Markus Wauschkuhn) Pensadores latinoamericanos: Hernando de Soto - la legalización de lo fáctico. In: Desarollo y Cooperación / Desenvolvimento e Cooperação. 2001.
Relevance and implications of Neo-Schumpeterian theories for SME funding in developing countries. In: Robert Kappel, Utz Dornberger, Michaela Meier, Ute Rietdorf (eds.): Small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. The challenges of globalization. Deutsches Übersee-Institut, Hamburg 2003, pp. 25–42 ( online ; PDF file; 118 kB).
Effects of WTO Accession on the Chinese Labor Market. In: Kristin Kupfer (Ed.): Explosives in China? Dimensions of social challenges in the People's Republic. Asia House, Essen 2004, pp. 55–65, ( online ; PDF file; 826 kB).
SMEs in the German economy: past, present, future (= reports from the World Economic Colloquium of the University of Bremen. No. 101). University of Bremen, Bremen 2006 ( online ; PDF file; 93 kB).
(with Robert Ernst-Siebert) SME in Germany's Maritime Industry - Innovation, Internationalization, and Employment. In: International Journal of Globalization and Small Business. Vol. 2 (2007), No. 1, pp. 19-33.
Country Case Study: Mali. In: Karl Wohlmuth, Patrick M. Kormawa and Jean Devlin: Agribusiness for Africa's Prosperity: Country Case Studies. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna 2011.
Financial markets as a cause of hunger? Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, Bonn 2011, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 46-00102366-18 .

Editing

(with Margot Schüller) China, the global economic power. Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg 1995.
(with Markus Wauschkuhn and Karl Wohlmuth) Human rights, employment relationships and trade unions in China - international perspectives. Institute for World Economy and International Management, Bremen 1996.
(with Eugeniusz Gostomski) Small and medium-sized companies in Poland and Germany: financing, internationalization, structural change. Fundacja Rozwoju Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdansk 2006.
(with Toshihiko Hozumi and Uwe Staroske) Labor Markets and Labor Market Policies between Globalization and World Economic Crisis. Japan and Germany. Hampp, Munich / Mering 2010.
(with Christine Biehler and Ly Huy Tuan) On the way to sustainable urban transport systems. A German-Vietnamese dialogue about the future of the city and the city of the future. Hampp, Munich / Mering 2011.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Bass, Hans-Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bass, Hans H .; Bass, Hans Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Came

[CV-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f CV on the Bremen University of Applied Sciences website (PDF file; 84 kB)

[2] Bremer professor new spokesman for the advisory board of the Nordwolle Museum, Bremer Nachrichten / Delmenhorster Kurier, March 13, 2012, p. 1 (PDF file; 2.2 MB)

[3] Hochschullehrerbund Landesverband Bremen ( Memento from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Profile on KOF Economic Research Center of the ETH Zurich, Ökonomenstimme - The Internet platform for economists in German-speaking countries

[5] Hans-Heinrich Bass: Green renaissance, not revolution

[6] Hans-Heinrich Bass and Robert Ernst-Siebert: Germany's maritime economy. From the old industrial problem child to the future branch: the role of SMEs, in: Innovation Management , June-August 2007, No. 2, pp. 16-21 (PDF file; 136 kB)

[7] Hans-Heinrich Bass, theses on the lecture “World Trade: Fair Trade?” At the invitation of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at the meeting of the foreign scholarship holders “Global Policy. The shape of the world in the 21st century ", March 29, 2010 (PDF file; 58 kB)

[8] Hans-Heinrich Bass: Financial markets as a cause of hunger ?, Bonn 2011: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe