Margrit Grabas

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Margrit Grabas (born November 11, 1953 in Ribnitz-Damgarten ) is a German economic historian .

Life

After her doctorate as Dr. oec. at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1980, Grabas worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Economic History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR until she left for West Berlin in March 1986 . Her economic and dogma-historical research, which she began in the “Quantitative Methods” department, including on the theory of the long waves , initially worked as a visiting scientist at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin , then as a research assistant from 1987 and finally as a research assistant at the Department of Economics from 1989 - and social history of the Free University of Berlin . With a study on “The economy and growth in Germany from 1895 to 1914” , she completed her habilitation in January 1991 with Wolfram Fischer and Jürgen Wolters at the Faculty of Economics at the Free University of Berlin. That same year, she received a call to the chair of Economic and Social History at the University of the Saarland , they accepted April 1, 1992nd

The main focus of her research and teaching is the history of the economy, growth and innovation, the economic and social history of the GDR as well as methodological problems of economic and dogma historiography, with special consideration of the importance of culture as an epistemological category. In addition, Grabas deals with questions of institutional and technological change under the influence of scarce resources, ecological changes and socio-economic crisis processes. In this context she has published several fundamental essays - not least as a contribution to the explanation of the global economic crisis from 2007 , which she defines as a structural crisis .

Memberships

  • Since 2003 chairwoman of the "International Scientific Association for World Economy and World Politics eV"
  • since 2007 managing editor of the “Writings on Economic and Social History” at the Berlin publishing house “Duncker & Humblot”
  • since 2010 board member of the Society for Social and Economic History

Fonts (selection)

  • On the relationship between the science method and the teaching method. Investigations into the more effective methodical design of the lessons in the subject political economy with business clerks with the aim of empowering the learners to think creatively. Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin, 1980.
  • Economy and growth in Germany from 1895 to 1914. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-428-07409-2 , also: Habilitation thesis, Free University of Berlin, 1991.
  • "Constraints and scope for action". The economic historiography of the GDR in the system of actually existing socialism. In: Quarterly for social and economic history . Volume 78, 1991, No. 4, pp. 501-531.
  • Crisis management or blockade of modernization? The role of the state in overcoming the “wood energy shortage” at the beginning of the industrial revolution in Germany. In: Yearbook for European Administrative History. Volume 7, 1995, pp. 43-75.
  • Schumpeter's contribution to the explanation of stability and instability in socio-economic development. Depicted on the economic history of the GDR. In: Francesca Schinzinger (Ed.): Entrepreneurs and technical progress. Boldt im Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1996, pp. 211–244.
  • Individual and industrial work. In: Richard van Dülmen (Ed.): Discovery of the I. The history of individualization from the Middle Ages to the present. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2001, pp. 331–359.
  • Great economists between glorification and contempt - Some reflections on the connection between reception, science and economic history in the 20th century. In: Historical Social Research / Historical Social Research . Volume 27, 2002, Issue 4, pp. 204-241.
  • The founder crisis of 1873/79 - fiction or reality? Some considerations in the context of the global financial and economic crisis of 2008/9. In: Yearbook for Economic History . 2011, Issue 1: Business cycles and crises in modern history. Pp. 69-96.
  • Economic crises from a socio-cultural perspective. Plea for a culturally expanded economic (historical) research. In: History and Society . Special issues, issue 24: W. Abelshauser, D. Gilgen, A. Leutzsch (eds.): Cultures of the world economy. Göttingen 2012, pp. 261–283.
  • June 17, 1953 - The East German Workers' Uprising as a Catalyst for a Socialist Economic Order. In: Quarterly for social and economic history . Volume 102, 2015, Issue 2, pp. 182–190.

literature

  • R. Spree: Economy . In: G. Ambrosius et al. (Ed.): Modern economic history. An introduction for historians and economists. 2nd edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, pp. 185-212.

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personal data
SURNAME Grabas, Margrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Ribnitz-Damgarten