Michael Wohlgemuth (economist)

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Michael Wohlgemuth (born March 17, 1965 in Saarlouis ) is a German economist and publicist .

Career

1990 graduate economist at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg , 1999 doctorate rerum politicarum at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena , 2007 habilitation at the University Witten / Herdecke , Venia Legendi for the subject of economics. From October 2011 he was a deputy professor at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth as well as a temporary lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Science at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

From 2002 to 2012 Wohlgemuth was executive researcher at the Walter Eucken Institute and has been the founding director of the European think tank Open Europe Berlin gGmbH since summer 2012 .

Memberships

Wohlgemuth is u. a. Member of the Verein für Socialpolitik , the Mont Pelerin Society , the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , the Wilhelm Röpke Institute and the Walter Eucken Institute . He was a member of the board of directors of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society , but declared his resignation on July 14, 2015 after a falling out between Karen Horn and Gerd Habermann over the political direction of the society.

Publications

  • Political and economic competition. Parallels and differences from an institutional and market process theoretical perspective , dissertation, 1999, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.

as editor (selection):

  • System competition as a challenge to theory and politics (with Manfred E. Streit), Baden-Baden 1999
  • The future of the welfare state. Basics of social ethics and economic order (with Nils Goldschmidt), Tübingen 2004
  • Rules of the game for better politics. Overcoming obstacles to reform - promoting performance competition , Freiburg 2005
  • Basic texts on the Freiburg tradition of order economics (with Nils Goldschmidt), Tübingen 2008
  • The struggle for freedom. Hayek's Constitution of Freedom after 50 Years (with Gerhard Schwarz), Zurich 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Wohlgemuth, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarlouis