Kurt W. Rothschild

Kurt W. Rothschild, April 2006

Kurt Wilhelm Rothschild (born October 21, 1914 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 15, 2010 in Vienna) was an Austrian economist.

Life

Kurt Wilhelm Rothschild studied law at the University of Vienna (Dr. iur.) And had to emigrate in 1938. At the University of Glasgow he studied economics and political philosophy (MA in Economics and Political Philosophy) and worked there from 1940 to 1947 as an assistant lecturer and lecturer. From 1947 to 1966 he was a research assistant at the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) in Vienna and from 1966 to 1985 Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz .

Rothschild was regarded as the doyen of Austrian economics .

His son is the literary scholar and journalist Thomas Rothschild .

Honorary doctorates

• 1987 University of Aachen
• 1990 University of Augsburg
• 1995 University of Bremen
• 1995 University of Leicester
• 2004 Vienna University of Economics and Business

Awards

Awarded the Kurt Rothschild Prize 2018

• 1980 City of Vienna Prize for Humanities
• 1983 Science Medal from the City of Linz
• 1983 Award (?) Of the City of Vienna
• 1986 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 1999 Decoration of Honor from the Province of Upper Austria
• 2010 Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book (special prize for the complete journalistic work)

Since 1998 the Economics Institute of the University of Linz has organized an annual Kurt W. Rothschild lecture in his honor .

The Renner Institute has been awarding the Kurt Rothschild Prize for Science Journalism since 2016 . The main award winners in 2016 were Peter Bofinger , 2017 Marcel Fratzscher , 2018 Heinz D. Kurz and 2019 Kate Raworth .

Publications

Books

• Austria's Economic Development between the Two Wars. London 1947
• The Theory of Wages. Oxford 1954; 2nd edition: Kelley, New York 1967
  • Wage theory. Vahlen, Berlin / Frankfurt 1963
• Market shape, wages and foreign trade. Contributions to economic theory and economic policy. Europa Verlag, Vienna / Frankfurt / Zurich 1966
• Economic forecast. Methods and Problems. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1969
• (Ed.): Power in Economics. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1971, ISBN 0-14-080205-3
• with Ewald Nowotny and Gerhardt Schwödiauer: Determinants of the wage movement. Springer, Vienna / New York 1972, ISBN 3-211-81067-6
• with Hans-Jürgen Schmahl: Accelerated monetary depreciation. Causes and consequences. Minutes of the workshop on June 16, 1972 at the HWWA Institute for Economic Research, Hamburg. Weltarchiv publishing house, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-87895-102-7
• Unemployment in Austria. 1955-1977. Austrian Institute for Labor Market Policy, Linz 1977
• Introduction to imbalance theory. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1981, ISBN 3-540-10894-7
• with Hans-Jürgen Krupp & Bernd Rohwer (eds.): Paths to full employment. Concepts of an active fight against unemployment. Rombach, Freiburg 1986, ISBN 3-7930-9039-6
• Theories of unemployment. Introduction. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-486-20843-8 ; 2nd edition ibid. 1994, ISBN 3-486-22928-1
• Unemployed: Are there any? Selected articles on the economic and socio-political aspects of unemployment. Edited by Reiner Buchegger, Monika Hutter & Béla Löderer. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 1990, ISBN 3-926570-18-0
• Ethics and economic theory. Mohr, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-16-145969-5
  • Ethics and Economic Theory. Ideas - Models - Dilemmas. Edward Elgar, Aldershot 1993, ISBN 1-85278-675-2
• Employment, Wages and Income Distribution. Critical Essays in Economics. Routledge, London / New York 1993, ISBN 0-415-08579-9
• Economy in the global village. Lecture on the occasion of the Liechtenstein Institute's event on the 75th anniversary of Liechtenstein personal and corporate law on September 23, 2001 in Vaduz. Publishing house of the Liechtenstein Academic Society, Vaduz 2001, ISBN 3-7211-1050-1
• The political visions of great economists. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-768-3
  • Review by Vera Ziegeldorf, H-Soz-u-Kult , January 2, 2004
• with Hans Bürger: How business moves the world. The big economic models on the test bench. Lesethek Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-99100-009-9

Essays

• The Phillips Curves Discussion. An overview. In: Ewald Nowotny (Ed.): Wages, Prices, Employment. The Phillips curve and its alternatives. Athenäum-Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 1974, ISBN 3-8072-5012-3
• Full employment - an exceptional situation? In: From Politics and Contemporary History . Vol. 31, 1983, pp. 25–31 (reprinted in Unemployed: Are there those? Pp. 151–163)
• Small state and interdependence. Notes on the theory of small states from an economic point of view. In: Arno Waschkuhn (Ed.): Kleinstaat. Fundamental and current problems. Liechtenstein Academic Society, Vaduz 1994, ISBN 3-7211-1018-8 , pp. 71–87
• Subsidiarity from an economic point of view. In: Alois Riklin & Gerard Batliner (eds.): Subsidiarity. An interdisciplinary symposium. Liechtenstein Academic Society, Vaduz 1994, ISBN 3-7211-1021-8 , pp. 193-202
• Epilogue: Is Full Employment Possible? In: HG Zilian and Jörg Flecker (eds.): Pathologies and paradoxes of the world of work. Forum Sozialforschung, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901339-02-7

literature

• Kazimierz Laski, Egon Matzner & Ewald Nowotny (eds.): Contributions to the discussion and criticism of the neoclassical economy. Festschrift for Kurt W. Rothschild and Josef Steindl. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1979, ISBN 3-540-09413-X
• Egon Matzner & Ewald Nowotny (eds.): What is relevant economy today? Festschrift for Kurt W. Rothschild. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-89518-006-8
• Kurt Dopfer: The Idea of ​​Evolution in Modern Natural Sciences: What Economists Can Learn From It. Lecture on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr. hc mult. Kurt W. Rothschild including laudation from Prof. Dr. Helmut Kramer in honor of the jubilee on October 22, 2004. Bendern, Liechtenstein Institute 2005, ISBN 3-9522986-3-8
• Hans Bürger, Kurt W Rothschild: How the economy moves the world: The great economic models on the test bench ; Lesethek, Vienna 2009, ISBN 3-99100-009-1
• Wolfgang Blaas: Rothschild, Kurt Wilhelm. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 592-595.
• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 999

Web links

• Digitized estate of Kurt W. Rothschild - letters, works and life documents
• Literature by and about Kurt W. Rothschild in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurt W. Rothschild on the website of the Liechtenstein Institute
• Life and work of Kurt W. Rothschild
• "The halo is scratched, but neoliberalism is still very strong", Interview with Christoph Sauer and Margit Schratzenstaller in Intervention - European Journal for Economics and Economic Policy , 2004 ( Memento from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• “We have already missed the great opportunity for reforms” , interview with Christian Stenner in korso - the sustainable magazine for Graz and Styria, November 2009

Footnotes

1. ↑ Der Standard : - Kurt Rothschild 1914-2010 November 21, 2010, 18:44
2. ↑ Kurt Rothschild 1914-2010 , Der Standard, November 21, 2010
3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 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. 
4. ^ Kurt Rothschild Prize on the Renner Institute website, accessed on August 20, 2017.
5. ↑ SPÖ Parliamentary Club and Renner Institute award the Kurt Rothschild Prize for Business Journalism. November 5, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .