Karl Brunner (economist)

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Karl Brunner (born February 16, 1916 in Zurich ; † May 9, 1989 in Rochester , New York ) was a Swiss economist . He is considered a monetarist .

Life

Karl Brunner received his doctorate from the University of Zurich . He came to the United States in 1943 on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship , where he first worked at Harvard University and later at the University of Chicago .

This was followed by professorships at the University of California, Los Angeles and Ohio State University . From 1971 he taught at the University of Rochester in New York . Since the late sixties he has been spending the summer semesters in Europe, first at the University of Konstanz , then at the University of Bern .

Professor Brunner was known as a monetarist and for his criticism of the Federal Reserve System and as a co-founder and member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. He also demanded that economists should take into account uncertainty in economic life in their models.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has launched the public lecture series Karl Brunner Distinguished Lecture Series on the occasion of his 100th birthday in his honor.

He died in Rochester at the age of 73 and was buried in Switzerland.

literature

  • Jennifer Blair: Taking Aim at the New International Economic Order . In: P. Mirowski, D. Plehwe (eds.): The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, Harvard University Press, Cambridge / London 2009, pp. 347–385.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Allan H. Meltzer: A Swiss of world rank. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 22, 2016, p. 31
  2. ^ Eric Pace: Prof. Karl Brunner Is Dead at 73; Economist and Early Monetarist. The New York Times , May 10, 1989, accessed January 24, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1989
Place of death Rochester (Monroe County, New York)