Michael Hüther

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Michael Hüther (2011)

Michael Hüther (born April 24, 1962 in Düsseldorf ) is a German economic researcher and director of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research .

Education

Hüther studied economics as well as medieval and modern history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the University of East Anglia in Norwich. In 1990 he was in the subject Economics Dr. rer. pole. doctorate ( summa cum laude ) with a dissertation on the subject of “Integrated Tax Transfer Systems for the Federal Republic of Germany. Normative conception and empirical analysis ”.

Scientific stations

From 1987 to 1991 Hüther was a research assistant at the professorship for economics and finance at the University of Giessen. From 1990 to 1995 he worked as a research assistant in the staff and from 1995 to 1999 as Secretary General and head of the scientific staff of the Advisory Council for the assessment of macroeconomic developments in Wiesbaden. From 1999 to 2004 he was Chief Economist and from 2001 to 2004 Head of Economics and Communication at DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale in Frankfurt. Since 1995 he has been a lecturer and since 2001 honorary professor at the EBS University of Economics and Law in Oestrich-Winkel . In addition, since July 2004 he has been director and member of the executive committee of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research .

Positions

In December 2009, Hüther became active as a testimonial for the New Social Market Economy initiative . He got involved in a PR campaign for the statement “The social market economy does it better ... because it generates prosperity from competition.” In June 2016, Hüther spoke in a newspaper article on the occasion of the federal referendum in Switzerland on the basic income initiative against an unconditional basic income out.

Through his position as director of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research , he is regularly asked about the economic situation in Germany. His assessment is then used as a comment in business newspapers such as B. published in the Handelsblatt .

Memberships

Honors

In 2009 Michael Hüther was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Fonts (selection)

  • Origin and expansion of the sovereign tax in late medieval Bavaria: a contribution to financial history. Giessen 1986.
  • The Thirty Years War as a Fiscal Problem: Attempted Solutions and Their Consequences. Giessen 1987.
  • Microsimulation of alternative tax and transfer systems for the Federal Republic of Germany. Giessen 1989.
  • Problems of tariff structuring in integrated tax transfer systems. Giessen 1989.
  • Intellectual historical causes for the emergence of economics: Adam Smith , Enlightenment and Theodicy . Giessen 1989.
  • Integrated tax transfer systems for the Federal Republic of Germany: normative conception and empirical analysis. Berlin 1990.
  • On the current need for integration in German tax and social policy. Casting 1990.
  • with Friedrich Hinterberger: self-organization: markets, state and institutions; on the origin and significance of the idea of ​​self-organization in economics. Giessen 1991.
  • with Hans-Georg Petersen: Taxes and transfers: financing German unification. Giessen 1991.
  • Revenue and distribution effects of basic income proposals. Giessen 1991.
  • Can financial policy still be saved? Giessen 1992.
  • Integration of the Transformation: Reflections on Economic Policy for the United Germany. Giessen 1992.
  • with Hubertus Bardt: Supply-oriented environmental policy: Position determination and perspectives. Cologne 2006.
  • The disciplined freedom . A new balance between market and state. Murmann, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86774-130-9 .
  • with Hubertus Bardt: Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy . On the psychology of freedom. IW Medien, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-602-24147-7 .
  • We must not overwhelm Germany. (on the euro crisis , June 12, 2012, zeit.de)
  • The young nation. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86774-376-1 .
  • The disciplined freedom. A new balance between market and state. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86774-130-9 .
  • with Matthias Diermeier and Henry Goecke: The exhausted globalization: Between transatlantic orientation and the Chinese way . Springer 2018, ISBN 978-3658200701 .

Web links

Commons : Michael Hüther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. INSM campaign "Social market economy makes it better". Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft International, December 13, 2009 ( memento of October 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and the motifs for the campaign ( memento of October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Referendum in Switzerland: Why we think the basic income is a good idea - or not. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved November 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Guest comment: These four measures should be taken in the corona crisis from an economic policy point of view. Retrieved March 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Review by Nikolaus Piper ( Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 4, 2019, p. 13)
personal data
SURNAME Hüther, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf