Horst Claus Recktenwald

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Horst Claus Recktenwald (born January 25, 1920 in Spiesen ; † April 28, 1990 in Nuremberg ) was a German economist , especially a financial scientist .

Life

Horst Claus Recktenwald studied at the University of Mainz , where he also received his doctorate and qualified as a professor. After professorships at the Universities of Darmstadt and Freiburg / Breisgau , he was appointed to the Chair of Economics, in particular finance, in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1963 .

Among other things, he was co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and the magazine Public Finance Quarterly . He founded the well-known facsimile edition of the classics of economics , in whose comment volumes the leading researchers, including Nobel Prize winners in economics, contributed to the respective published works.

His scientific work focuses on order theory and politics as well as dogma-historical research, in particular Adam Smith , whose Wealth of Nations he translated into German. In addition, he conducted research on the theory and politics of the public economy, including cost-benefit analysis and the public income and expenditure system.

HC Recktenwald Prize for Economics

His wife, Hertha Auguste Recktenwald (March 4, 1921– February 2, 2008), honorary senator of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, founded a foundation on December 17, 1993 with the aim of promoting research in the field of economics through a prize, the HC To promote the Recktenwald Prize for Economics. This prize is awarded every two years to a recognized scientist and was first awarded in 1995. Previous winners were: Edmond Malinvaud (1995), Joseph E. Stiglitz (1998; Nobel Prize Winner in Economics 2001), Paul Krugman (2000; Nobel Prize Winner in Economics 2008), Paul Romer (2002) and Oliver E. Williamson (2004).

Works

  • Ensuring full employment according to the findings of more recent national economic research , dissertation, University of Mainz, 1949
  • Tax incidence theory. Basics and Problems . Habilitation thesis, University of Mainz. Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, volume 35.Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1958, 164 pp.
  • The capital budget from a financial and economic perspective . Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1962, 41 p. (Law and State in Past and Present; Issue 250/251).
  • Tax transfer theory. Theoretical and empirical distribution of taxes and costs . 2., revised. and additional edition. Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, Issue 35. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1966, 219 pp., ISBN 3-428-01218-6 (1st edition, 1958, under the title “Steuerinzidenzlehre”).
  • The finance of our time . Stuttgart; Berlin; Cologne; Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1965, 38 p. (Current issues from economy and society; Vol. 4)
  • (Ed.): Life pictures of great economists . Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1965 (also in English and Spanish)
  • (Ed.): Scholars of the University of Altdorf . Nuremberg: Lorenz Spindler Verlag, 1966, 134 p. (Contains: HCRecktenwald: Rise and decline of the University of Altdorf .- Wilhelm Maurer: Altdorfer theologians .- Hans Liermann: Jurists in Altdorf .- Magnus Schmid: Medici Universitatis Altorfinae .- Gerhard Pfeiffer: Scholars of the Philosophical Faculty )
  • (Ed.): Finance Theory . Cologne; Berlin: Kiepenheuer u. Witsch, 1969, 531 S. (New Scientific Library; 33: Economics); 2nd edition, 1970
  • Tax Incidence and Income Redistribution. An introduction. Translated by Martha V. Stolper. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1971, 260 pp. (Standard title: Steuerüberwälzungslehre <englisch>)
  • The Nobel Prize Winners in Economic Science . 4 volumes, Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanz, Düsseldorf; Edited up to volume 2 by HC Recktenwald, then by Karl-Dieter Grüske
  • (Ed. And translator): Adam Smith The prosperity of the nations. An investigation into its nature and its causes . Beck Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-406-05393-9
  • Lexicon of the state and money economy. A teaching and reference work . Munich: Vahlen, 1983, 759 pp., ISBN 3-8006-0832-4
  • Dictionary of Economics. With tables and a timetable . 11., redesigned and exp. Ed., Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-520-11411-9 (Kröner's pocket edition, vol. 114)
  • Order theory and economic science . Univ.-Bund Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 1985, ISBN 3-922135-40-4
  • Vademecum to an early classic in economic science. Commentary on the facsimile edition of the edition by François Quesnay published in Leyden and Paris in 1767/68: Physiocratie ou constitution naturelle du gouvernement. About François Quesnay's “Physiocratie”. Vademecum to an early classic . Verl. Wirtschaft und Finances, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-87881-021-0 (The Handelsblatt library "Classics of Economics ")
  • The Franconian University of Altdorf . 2nd edition, Spindler, Nürnberg 1990, 103 pages, ISBN 3-88929-073-6 (1st edition, 1966)

Honors

Horst Claus Recktenwald was President and then Honorary President of the Institut International de Finances Publiques (IIPF) from 1978 to 1981 . In 1983 he was elected to the Leibniz Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Classics of Economics
personal data
SURNAME Recktenwald, Horst Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Spiesen
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1990
Place of death Nuremberg