Horst Siebert (economist)

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Horst Siebert (born March 20, 1938 in Neuwied ; † June 2, 2009 in Switzerland ) was a German economist and university professor .

Life

After studying economics at the University of Cologne and Wesleyan University in Connecticut , he received his doctorate in 1965 from the University of Münster . After a stay at Texas A&M University , he completed his habilitation in economics at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Münster in 1969 .

In 1969, he received a call to the chair of Economics and Foreign Trade, University of Mannheim . In 1984 he switched to the chair for international economic relations at the University of Konstanz . From 1989 until his retirement in 2003 he was President of the Institute for World Economy at the University of Kiel and holder of the chair for theoretical economics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. He was visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Robert Schumann Center of the European University Institute in Florence. In 1990/91 he held the chair “Vereniging voor Economie” at the Flemish universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuwen at the University of Ghent . After his retirement in Germany until his death he was "Heinz Nixdorf Professor in European Integration and Economic Policy" at the Bologna Center of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies .

In addition, he was a member of various economic policy bodies at the federal German, European and international level. For example, from 1990 to 2003 he was a member of the Advisory Council for assessing macroeconomic development in one of the so-called five "economic modes".

From 1996 Siebert was involved in the development of the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum . This annual publication contains an international comparison of the competitiveness of economies . From 1999 he was a member of the Aspen Institute Italy. He has received several prizes and awards, most recently the Hayek Prize awarded by the Friedrich August von Hayek Foundation .

Siebert died in 2009 after a brief serious illness at the age of 71 in a Swiss hospital.

Participation in economic policy committees

honors and awards

Fonts

  • The chaos produced: economy and environment. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-17-001580-X .
  • Environmental policy instruments. Information requirements, success conditions, impact analysis. Schwartz, Göttingen 1976, ISBN 3-509-00860-X .
  • Economic theory of the environment. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-16-341001-4 .
  • Economic theory of natural resources. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-16-344548-9 .
  • The wasted environment: is the developing world facing ecological bankruptcy? Fischer, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-596-24128-6 .
  • The risk of unity: an economic therapy. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-421-06628-0 .
  • Are the Germans running out of work? Paths to More Employment. Bertelsmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-570-12146-1 .
  • World economy. UTB, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8252-8148-5 .
  • Unemployed without end? Strategies for more employment. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-409-19319-7 .
  • On the paradigm of competition between locations. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-16-147384-1 .
  • The Cobra Effect : How to Avoid Economic Policy Misdirection. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-05562-9 .
  • Beyond the social market: a necessary reorientation of German politics. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05848-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IfW press release on the award of the Hayek Prize
  2. ^ Philip Plickert: Economic researcher Horst Siebert has died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 2, 2009, accessed December 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Siebert, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2009
Place of death Switzerland