James Glattfelder

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James B. Glattfelder (* 1972 ) is a Swiss physicist , complexity researcher and philosopher who, as an author, deals with the history of science , the limits of knowledge, the foundations of reality, the emergence of self-organization and the defects of the global financial system .

life and work

After graduating from the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz with a high school diploma in economics in 1992, he studied physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1993–1999, with a Master of Science degree in the field of theoretical high-energy physics ). After a phase of professional activity from 2002 in the field of finance, he received his doctorate in 2010 at the chair for system design at ETH Zurich with the thesis Ownership networks and corporate control: mapping economic power in a globalized world .

The work The Network of Global Corporate Control , written together with Stefania Vitali and Stefano Battiston, which deals with the financial power of international actors, triggered a number of articles in the press, including in the Tages-Anzeiger , in addition to the great echo in science , in ZEIT , the world , in Forbes , the Frankfurter Rundschau , Wired and Washington Post . The work received positive reviews on the New York Times Economics Blog . At the beginning of 2019 a follow-up study was published, which describes the evolution of the global shareholder network and shows the rise of BlackRock to the most powerful owner after the global financial crisis .

In 2019 Glattfelder's book Information - consciousness - reality: how a new understanding of the universe can help answer age-old questions of existence . In this book, Glattfelder describes the rise of a new scientific paradigm based on the concept of information .

Lectures and film clips (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Ownership networks and corporate control: mapping economic power in a globalized world . Diss., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, No. 19274, 2010.
  • Decoding Complexity - Uncovering Patterns in Economic Networks . Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013, eBook ISBN 978-3-642-33424-5
  • Information - consciousness - reality: how a new understanding of the universe can help answer age-old questions of existence . Springer 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03633-1
Essays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.bf.uzh.ch/de/persons/glattfelder-james/detail
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:2007/eth-2007-02.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Glattfelder
  5. ↑ "Too connected to fail." Tages-Anzeiger from October 29, 2011
  6. ↑ «Who Owns the World?» The time of May 31, 2012
  7. ↑ «These companies determine the fate of the world economy». The world of October 25, 2011
  8. ^ "The 147 Companies That Control Everything". Forbes Oct 22, 2011
  9. ↑ «147 companies control the world». Frankfurter Rundschau from October 24th, 2011
  10. ^ "James Glattfelder on the dangers of an over-connected economy." Wired, June 3, 2014
  11. ^ "The 10 firms that rule the world." Washington Post, November 7, 2011
  12. ^ "Who Rules the Global Economy?" The New York Times, Economics, Nov. 7, 2011
  13. ↑ James Glattfelder, Stefano Battiston: The Architecture of Power: Patterns of Disruption and Stability in the Global Ownership Network . Ed .: SSRN. January 2019 ( ssrn.com ).
  14. ↑ Available as an open access book: [2]
  15. ^ Information-Consciousness-Reality: Existence in a Nutshell. Medium, June 20, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Glattfelder, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glattfelder, James B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist, computer scientist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1972