Karen Horn

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Karen Ilse Horn (born December 13, 1966 in Geneva ) is a German business journalist , publicist and university lecturer .

Life

Professional background

Horn studied economics at the Saarland University and at the University of Bordeaux III . She received her PhD from the University of Lausanne .

From 1995 to 2007 she was a member of the business editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . There she wrote about regulatory issues and economics as a science. She was the responsible editor for the page The Order of the Economy and responsible for the reviews of business books. From October 2007 to the end of March 2012 she was the head of the capital city office of the Institute for German Economics in Berlin. From April 2012 to 2013 she was managing director of the Wert der Freiheit gGmbH, founded by Theo Müller , together with the CEO of Sachsenmilch AG, Thomas Bachofer .

Horn teaches as a lecturer at the HU Berlin , the University of Witten / Herdecke , the University of Siegen and the political science faculty of the University of Erfurt . She was appointed honorary professor at the University of Erfurt in 2019 .

She writes regularly for the debate magazines Standpoint and Swiss Month as well as occasionally for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Engagement in institutions and associations

Karen Horn is involved in numerous institutions. She currently holds the following positions, among others:

Since summer 2011 she has been chairwoman of the board of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society and headed the journalism junior group. In 2015 she fell out with Gerd Habermann , one of the founders of the company. On July 14, 2015, she and around fifty other members announced her departure. She justified her resignation in the monthly magazine Cicero with a shift to the right in the Hayek Society.

She is also a member of the Verein für Socialpolitik , the Mont Pèlerin Society , the Freedom Society , the Jena Alliance for the Renewal of the Social Market Economy and the Board of Trustees of Open Europe Berlin .

Journalism

subjects

According to his own statements, Horn deals scientifically and journalistically with the subject of freedom, with the history of economic ideas and, in particular, with order theory. It represents an interdisciplinary social science approach that combines insights from philosophy, ethics, history and sociology with economics. She particularly values ​​the work of Adam Smith , Friedrich August von Hayek, and James M. Buchanan .

In her book The Social Market Economy. Everything you should know about neoliberalism (2010), Karen Horn differentiates the social market economy into the economic order actually implemented and lived today on the one hand and an original theoretical concept on the other. The theoretical concept goes back to the tradition of ordoliberalism , the German form of early neoliberalism . In freedom she sees the central idea in the original theoretical concept of the social market economy, which included open markets, private property and freedom of contract. However, politics and society have moved away from this original idea, which she regrets.

In 2012, Horn wrote in Merkur magazine about the German mentality :

“The German value monitor, a study by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom based on representative surveys , shows the Germans' fear of freedom and their striving for security [meaning: against the American mentality]. Personal responsibility, motivation or competition lose popularity; Meanwhile, collectivist values ​​such as security and order, solidarity and social justice are very popular. A mere 30 percent acknowledge the market economy as an important asset. Germans do not love the market and have therefore invented the social market economy, which emphasizes solidarity and security. This security-minded mentality has crystallized over the centuries; it leaves its mark on all collective decisions. "

Publications

  • Morality and economy. On the synthesis of ethics and economics in modern business ethics and on morality in economic theory and the regulatory concept of the social market economy. Mohr Siebeck Verlag , Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-8252-1913-5 .
  • Liberal Democracy. A Benjamin Constant breviary. Verlag Ott, Thun 2004, ISBN 3-7225-6925-7 .
  • Roads to wisdom, conversations with ten Nobel laureates in economics. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009, ISBN 1-84844-670-5 .
  • Edited with Katja Gentinetta: Farewell to justice. For a readjustment of freedom and equality in times of crisis. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch , Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-89981-216-9 .
  • The social market economy. Everything you should know about neoliberalism. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89981-220-6 .
  • Edited with Gerhard Schwarz: The value of values. About the moral foundations of western civilization. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03823-745-7 .
  • The voice of economists. Interview with the Nobel Prize Winner. Verlag Carl Hanser, Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-43208-6 .
  • Hayek for everyone. The forces of spontaneous order. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89981-302-9 .
  • Reflection on the text of the cantata You Who Call Yourself by Christo by Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Doctor Karen Horn's Economical Medicine Cabinet. Home Use Theories. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-404-9 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karen Horn changes , press release of the Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft, December 20, 2011.
  2. ^ Karen Horn: Teaching and research karenhorn.de.
  3. ↑ Dr. Karen Horn becomes honorary professor , report on uni-erfurt.de (accessed April 16, 2019).
  4. ↑ a b c Karen Horn: Profile karenhorn.de.
  5. ↑ Herbert Giersch Foundation: Foundation Board ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. herbert-giersch-stiftung.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / entw.herbert-giersch-stiftung.de
  6. ↑ Walter Eucken Institute: The Institute's Scientific Board of Trustees ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. eucken.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eucken.de
  7. ^ Resignations shake Hayek-Gesellschaft faz.net , July 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ Announcement: Resigning from the Friedrich A. von Hayek-Gesellschaft Erklaerung-leipzig.de.
  9. ^ Dispute among liberals escalates nzz.ch, July 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ Controversy about a shift to the right in the Hayek Society: “I consider such flirtations to be a bad mistake” , article by Karen Horn in Cicero , July 20, 2015.
  11. ↑ Karen Horn: Our Task , in: Orientations zur Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsppolitik , 125, September 2010 (PDF), pp. VII – XIII.
  12. ↑ a b Indira Gurbaxani : Understanding Neoliberalism Correctly nzz.ch, February 2, 2011 (Review of Karen Horn's book The Social Market Economy , 2010).
  13. ^ The importance of the social market economy today , lecture in the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Bremen ( online ).
  14. ↑ Karen Horn: Order must be , in: Merkur , January 2012, pp. 53–58, here p. 55.
  15. ↑ DVD booklet for the Bach Cantata BWV 164 ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), JS Bach Foundation St. Gallen 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bach-streaming.ch
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Karen Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva