Marcel van Meerhaeghe

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Marcel van Meerhaeghe (1986)

Marcel Alfons Gilbert van Meerhaeghe (born April 12, 1921 in Wetteren , East Flanders , † March 22, 2014 in Ghent ) was a Belgian economist , journalist , columnist and professor of international economic relations at Ghent University .

biography

Van Meerhaeghe studied economics and sociology at Ghent University. From 1953 to 1954 he was a faculty advisor at the NATO Defense College . Since 1957 he was a full professor of economics and foreign economic theory at the University of Ghent. Since 1973 he has been visiting professor at Wolfson College (Cambridge) . After his retirement in Belgium in 1986, he taught at the London School of Economics , at the University of Tilburg , the University of Turin and the University La Sapienza .

His research interests ranged from public finance (monetary theory) to political economy and contributions to the history of theory. He was a staunch European.

Euro criticism

In 1998 van Meerhaeghe was one of the signatories of the declaration “The euro is coming too early”, a manifesto by more than 160 professors against the premature introduction of the euro (co-initiator Renate Ohr ).

Memberships

Since 1955 MAG van Meerhaeghe was a member of the think tank Royal Institute for International Relations . He was also a member of the Institut Européen think tank (Institutum Europaeum: 1979–2002) and the conservative think tank Center for the New Europe (1993–2009). Since 1988 he was a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society .

Publications (selection)

Books

  • International Economic Institutions (Longmans, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 7 editions between 1966 and 1998). 7th edition: Kluwer Academic Publishers / Springer .
  • Economics: Britain and the EEC (Longmans, London 1969): with Harry Johnson, John Pinder and Prof. Dennis Swann.
  • Economics, A critical approach (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1971).
  • Economia International (Editorial Atlas, São Paulo 1980).
  • Economic theory. A Critic's Companion (HE Stenfert Kroese, Antwerpen / Martinus Nijhoff, Boston, Lancaster 1980, 2nd edition 1986). 2nd edition: Springer .
  • Belgium and EC Membership Evaluated (Pinter Publishers, London, St. Martin's Press, New York 1992): with Alfred Cahen and Jean-Pierre De Bandt.

Heilbronn Symposium

  • The lost chapter of Schumpeter's 'Economic Development' in Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter. Entrepreneurship, style and vision , ed. J. Backhaus , The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, Volume 1, Kluwer, Boston, Dordrecht, London 2003, pp. 233–244.
  • Bismarck and the social question , Journal of Economic Studies, Sept. 2006, Volume 33, Issue 4, pp. 284-301.
  • The Austrian and German "Economist" in the interwar period: international aspects , in The beginnings of Scholarly Economic Journalism , ed. J. Backhaus, The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, Volume 12, Springer, 2011, pp. 65-71.
  • Globalization: concept, outcome, future - a continental view , European Journal of Law and Economics , April 2012, Volume 33, Issue 2 (Essays in honor of Dr. Reginald Hansen, 1919–2016), pp. 239–306.

Further publications

  • The market forms, the market behavior and the market results in Belgium , Zeitschrift für die Allgemeine Staatswissenschaft / Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics , Volume 121, Issue 1. (January 1965), pp. 131–142.
  • Economic development in the Congo. Conclusions for the theory of economic growth (Nuremberg lectures - contemporary questions from economy and society, Volume 2; Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1965).
  • Current problems of Belgian economic policy (Kiel lectures, volume 43, Institute for the World Economy at the University, Kiel 1966).
  • The purpose of competition policy. A critical essay on the EEC's views , Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie , Vienna, Volume XXVII, Issue 4, December 1967, pp. 425–438.
  • Right and left - ideology and welfare state , Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, Volume 32 (3), March 1985, pp. 263-270.
  • The church and the economy , Economia delle Scelte Pubbliche (Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice), Volume V, 1987-2, pp. 97-104.
  • The Belgium-Luxemburg Economic Union , in International Economic Integration , Ed. Franz Peter Lang and Renate Ohr (Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg 1995), pp. 95–119. History of the UEBL since 1921.
  • Attilio da Empoli's significance for economic theory , Journal of Economic Studies, Sept. 2001, Volume 28, Issue 4/5, pp. 324-333; also in On the frontiers of the modern theory of value : essays on Attilio da Empoli (1904–1948), Erfurt Studies in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology, ed. J. Backhaus, 2002, issue 3, pp. 113–125.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Belien, De euro-critici , in book of papers from UFSIA-Denktag dd. March 12, 1994 Vlaanderen! In wilted Europe? (Vlaamse Volks-Moving-Schriften Nr. 3, Antwerp 1995), pp. 41-45.
  2. ↑ Financial Times, February 9, 1998 ( http://www.glasnost.de/db/DokZeit/9802euro.html ).
  3. ↑ Activités et publications de l'Institut Royal des Relations Internationales 1947–1966 , in Chronique de politique étrangère , Volume 19, Issue 6 (Institut Egmont, November 1966), p. 745.
  4. ^ Joseph Schumpeter, Methodological Individualism , translation by Michiel van Notten of Chapter VI of Schumpeter's (1908) Essence and Main Content of Theoretical Economics (Institutum Europaeum, Brussels 1980), p. I.
  5. ↑ Michiel De Vydt, Hayeks Historici: Een intellectuele geschiedenis van de Mont Pèlerin Society en Hayeks geternis om de rol van de historicus als opiniemaker (Universiteit Gent 2016), p. 86.
  6. ^ Bibliography on European Integration (Europa Union Verlag, Cologne 1970), p. 12.
  7. ↑ Prof. Romain Yakemtchouk, La convention de Lomé (Académie royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, Bruxelles 1977), pp. 59-60.
  8. ↑ Kurt W. Rothschild , Individual Meetings , World Economic Archives, June 1974, Volume 110, Issue 2, pp. A25 – A26.
  9. ^ Review by Guy Routh in The Economic Journal (Volume 91, Issue 362, June 1981, p. 591).
  10. ↑ 15th Heilbronn Symposium on “The Social Question”, June 20–23, 2002.
  11. ↑ Florian Hartmann, Financial Stability, Macroeconomic Cycles and Complex Expectation Dynamics (University of Osnabrück, 2017), p. 271.
  12. ↑ Stephanie Mary Sandland, Sustainable development: the nature of change and the influence of cultural traits ( University of East London , 2016), pp. 123-124.
  13. ↑ Also: Parlement Européen - Direction générale de la documentation parlementaire et de l'information, Cahiers de documentation européenne, 10e année, Issue 3, July - September 1968, p. 19 / B.
  14. ^ Bristol University Press.
personal data
SURNAME Meerhaeghe, Marcel van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meerhaeghe, Marcel Alfons Gilbert van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetteren
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2014
Place of death Ghent