Hans Diefenbacher

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Hans Diefenbacher (born 1954 in Mannheim ) is a German economist. He is an adjunct professor at the Alfred Weber Institute at Heidelberg University and at the research facility of the Evangelical Study Group (FEST).

Life

Hans Diefenbacher grew up in Mannheim. Instead of military service , he signed up for the technical relief organization . From 1973 he studied economics in Freiburg and Heidelberg and received his diploma in 1978 . In 1983 he was at Hans G. Nutzinger at the University of Kassel on "Empirical Participation Studies" doctorate . He worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU), the research facility of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST) and the Institute for Applied Ecology (today Ökoinstitut). In 2001 he was in economics also in Kassel with a thesis on "justice and sustainability" habilitation . He has been teaching at Heidelberg University since 2005, and as an adjunct professor since 2009. From 2008 until the end of 2019 he was deputy head of FEST. Since 1998 he has been the representative of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany for environmental issues.

His work focuses on the relationship between economy and ecology as well as the world economic and financial system. He also publishes on the history of economic theory , for example on John Stuart Mill , representatives of land reform such as Adolf Damaschke or Henry George, or on anarchism . Together with Roland Zieschank, on behalf of the Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency, he developed the “National Welfare Index” (NWI), which is proposed as an alternative to gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of prosperity . It is made up of welfare-creating components such as consumption and welfare-reducing aspects such as environmental degradation or crime . Although GDP in Germany rose from 1,999 to 2,014 by 16 percent, the calculated per NWI remained welfare approximately constant. The NWI has found its way into the green prosperity report of the Bundestag faction of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and is also used in the federal states.

Diefenbacher married in 1979. He has one son.

Monographs

  • with Hans G. Nutzinger (Ed.): John Stuart Mill today . Metropolis, Marburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7316-1346-6 .
  • with Benjamin Held, Dorothee Rodenhäuser (Ed.): End of Growth - Endless Work? Working in a post-growth society . Metropolis, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7316-1254-4 .
  • with Oliver Foltin, Benjamin Held, Dorothee Rodenhäuser, Rike Schweizer, Volker Teichert: Between the worlds of work - The transition to the post-growth society . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-403731-8 .
  • with Roland Zieschank: How wealth can really be measured - alternatives to gross domestic product . oekom, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86581-215-5 .
  • with Antoinette Bismark, Dan Melander: Climate protection in churches - from Christian mission to practice . Erich Schmidt Publishing House. Berlin 2010.
  • with Klaus Hugler: Adolf Damaschke and Henry George - Approaches to a theory and policy of land reform . Metropolis, Marburg 2005.
  • Justice and Sustainability. On the relationship between ethics and economics . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2001.
  • with Richard Douthwaite : Beyond Globalization - Handbook for Local Economics . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1998.
  • Anarchism - On the history and idea of ​​a society free of domination . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997.
  • with U. Ratsch: Impoverishment through the destruction of nature - The political limits of science . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d apl. Prof. Dr. Hans Diefenbacher , Alfred Weber Institute for Economics, Heidelberg University. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Hans Diefenbacher . Website of the Evangelical Church in Germany, accessed on October 22, 2019.
  3. ^ Literature by and about Hans Diefenbacher in the catalog of the German National Library , accessed on October 22, 2019.
  4. ^ Fritz Vorholz: Economic growth: The shortcomings of statistics . In: Die Zeit 14/2009, March 26, 2009.
  5. ↑ Manfred Kiy: How do you measure sustainability: global welfare index or indicator systems? . In: Andreas Gadatsch, Hartmut Ihne, Jürgen Monhemius, Dirk Schreiber: Sustainable Management in the Digital Age . Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2018, pp. 295–305, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-20174-6_21 .
  6. ↑ Hans Diefenbacher, Roland Zieschank: What can prosperity really be measured by - alternatives to gross domestic product . oekom, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86581-215-5 .
  7. ^ Hans Diefenbacher, Benjamin Held, Dorothee Rodenhäuser, Roland Zieschank: NWI 2.0 - further development and updating of the National Welfare Index . Research Center for Environmental Policy of the Free University of Berlin, Research Center of the Evangelical Study Group Heidelberg (Ed.), January 2013.
  8. ^ Benjamin Held, Dorothee Rodenhäuser, Hans Diefenbacher, Roland Zieschank: The National and Regional Welfare Index (NWI / RWI): Redefining Progress in Germany . In: Ecological Economics 145, March 2018, pp. 391–400, doi : 10.1016 / j.ecolecon.2017.11.026 .
  9. ^ A b c Hans Diefenbacher, Roland Zieschank: True prosperity instead of blind growth . Annual Prosperity Report 2017, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, parliamentary group, Berlin 2017, pp. 27ff.
  10. ↑ a b Indicator: National Welfare Index . Website of the Federal Environment Agency , accessed on October 22, 2019.
  11. ↑ Hans Diefenbacher, Roland Zieschank: The status quo becomes a risk . Annual Prosperity Report 2019, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, parliamentary group, Berlin 2019.
  12. ^ Hans Diefenbacher, Dorothee Rodenhäuser, Benjamin Held: The Regional Welfare Index for North Rhine-Westphalia 1999-2013 . FEST, Heidelberg 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Diefenbacher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim