Jürg Niehans

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Jürg Niehans (born November 8, 1919 in Bern , † April 23, 2007 in Palo Alto , California) was a Swiss economist .

Life

Jürg Niehans was born in Bern in 1919 and grew up in Zurich. He studied political economy at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1945 with a thesis entitled 'The thought of autarky in mercantilism of yesteryear and in neo-mercantilism of yesterday'.

After completing his doctorate, Niehans first joined the Swiss diplomatic service, to which he was a member from 1945 to 1949. Above all, he was able to gain practical experience as an attaché at the Swiss Legation in Washington.

In 1949 he returned to the University of Zurich, where he completed his habilitation in 1950. Here he developed extensive research and teaching activities and was appointed associate professor in 1952 and full professor in 1956.

After a year of research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Niehans decided in 1966 to accept the professorship offered there in the Department of Political Economy and to move to the USA.

In 1977 Niehans returned to Switzerland when the University of Bern offered him a chair in theoretical economics and the opportunity to organize a degree there based on the American model.

For several years he edited the Swiss Journal for Economics and Statistics . He was an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking , Journal of Monetary Economics , Journal of International Economics and Kyklos .

The Universities of Basel and Göttingen have awarded him an honorary doctorate. The Verein für Socialpolitik, in which German-speaking university lecturers specializing in economics meet, honored Jürg Niehans in 1989 with the award of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen lecture. In 1988 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

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personal data
SURNAME Niehans, Juerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss national economist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2007
Place of death Palo Alto