Jörg Althammer
Jörg Althammer (born June 28, 1962 in Augsburg ) is a German social scientist and economist .
Life
Althammer studied economics , economic and social policy at the University of Augsburg . In 1993 he was with a thesis on incomes policy issues at Heinz Lampert doctorate . In 1998 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the economic theory of the family and family policy.
From 1999 to 2001 Althammer was Gerhard Kleinhenz's representative at the chair for economics with a focus on economic and social policy at the University of Passau . In 2002 he received a call to the University of Bochum to the Department of Social Policy and Social Economics .
In 2008, Althammer followed the call of the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and took over the chair for business ethics at the economic faculty in Ingolstadt.
Jörg Althammer is married and has three children.
Act
The research focus of Jörg Althammer are the business ethics, the social policy , the family policy , the health economics and family economics . He has published numerous articles on current economic and social policy issues. Althammer is co-author of the “Textbook of Social Policy”, which is used as standard literature at numerous universities.
Jörg Althammer is a member of the European Economic Association , the economic ethics and social policy committee and the committee for population economics at the Verein für Socialpolitik and a member of the Görres Society . Althammer is an advisor to the Commission for Economic and Social Questions of the German Bishops' Conference . From 2001 to 2012 he was a member of the scientific advisory board for family issues at the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMfSFJ) (from 2008 to 2012 deputy chairman) and scientific advisor to the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) .
Others
In 2014, Jörg Althammer was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick Cardinal O'Brien and invested in the order on October 25, 2014 in the Freiburg Minster by Reinhard Cardinal Marx , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .
Fonts
- Textbook of Social Policy , 9th edition, Springer 2014, ISBN 978-3642318900 , together with Heinz Lampert.
- Economic theory of family policy: theoretical and empirical findings on selected problems of state family policy , Physica Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-7908-1338-9 .
- Marriage and family in the tax law and social order , Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148614-5 , together with Ute Klammer.
- German social insurance - a historic wrong decision? , Bachem Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1886-7 .
- (Ed.): Family policy and social security: Festschrift for Heinz Lampert , Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-24538-3 .
- Family-friendly pensions: Expert opinion on behalf of the Commission for Societal and Social Issues of the German Bishops' Conference on a family-friendly reform of the statutory pension insurance , Bonn 2008, together with Andreas Mayert.
- with others: How much family can modern society tolerate . Roman Herzog Institute, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-941036-23-9 .
- (Ed.): Caritas in veritate. Catholic social teaching in the age of globalization , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, print ISBN 978-3-428-13996-5 , e-book ISBN 978-3-428-53996-3 , print & e-book ISBN 978-3- 428-83996-4 .
- with Andreas Kruse , Giovanni Maio : Humanity of an Aging Society , Ferdinand Schöningh 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77943-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Jörg Althammer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jörg Althammer on the website of the KU EI in Ingolstadt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Althammer, Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social scientist and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |