Klaus Dieter John

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Klaus Dieter John (born July 13, 1952 in Wiesbaden ; † May 21, 2014 ) was a German economist and professor of economics . He held the chair for economic policy at the TU Chemnitz . His main areas of research were money and credit theory and environmental economics.

John came to Chemnitz in the early 1990s and became dean of the Faculty of Economics in the mid-1990s. He had previously worked at the University of Mainz and spent several years as a professor in the USA. He was a member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Economics at the TU Chemnitz and in recent years co-organizer of the Chemnitz Symposium "Europe and the Environment". He was u. a. Translator of the textbook “Macroeconomics” by N. Gregory Mankiw from English into German.

John was married with several children. He died on May 21, 2014 after a serious illness.

Publications (selection)

  • European environmental policy , Shaker Verlag , Aachen, 2007
  • Macroeconomics workbook , Schaeffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, 2004
  • National accounts , Michael Frenkel, Klaus Dieter John, Verlag Franz Vahlen, Munich, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press office of the TU Chemnitz: Mourning for committed university lecturers and recognized economists. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ N. Gregory Mankiw: Macroeconomics . 7th edition 2017. Schäffer Poeschel, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-7910-3784-4 ( dnb.de [accessed on February 5, 2019]).
  3. ^ TU mourns the loss of a professor of economics. Klaus Dieter John died at the age of 61 . In: Free Press (Chemnitzer Zeitung) . May 28, 2014, p. 11 .