Nils Goldschmidt

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Nils Goldschmidt (* 1970 in Höxter ) is a German economist.

Goldschmidt is Professor of Contextual Economics and Economic Education at the Center for Economic Education at the University of Siegen . He represents ordoliberal positions and is chairman of the Action Group for the Social Market Economy eV in Tübingen.

Life

From 1990 to 1997 Nils Goldschmidt studied theology and economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He completed both subjects with a diploma. In 2001 he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. PhD. From April 2002 to 2008 Nils Goldschmidt worked as a research assistant at the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg. In 2008 the habilitation and Venia Legendi for economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg followed.

From 2008 to 2010 he was a substitute professor for social policy and the organization of social services at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . From 2009 to 2013 he was also a lecturer in the economics and society department at the Munich School of Politics . In the winter semester 2009/10, Nils Goldschmidt took on a visiting professorship at the theological faculty of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt for the subject of Christian social ethics and social policy. From 2010 to 2013 he was a professor in the field of social policy and administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich .

Since March 2013 he has been Professor of Contextual Economics and Economic Education at the University of Siegen , and since 2015 director of the Center for Teacher Training and Educational Research there.

In November 2014 he took over the chairmanship of the Action Group for Social Market Economy .

Nils Goldschmidt is married and has two children.

Positions

Nils Goldschmidt represents ordoliberal positions and advocates the further development of the social market economy as a social order. By taking over the chairmanship, he gave the Action Group a Social Market Economy the motto “Economy for people”. He sees the need for an ethical foundation: “Business without ethical reflection is socially aimless.” He advocates strengthening economic education on a regulatory basis. In his scientific work he is a. with the history and methodology of economic thought, cultural economics and social policy.

Awards

Nils Goldschmidt was appointed to the working group for sociopolitical questions of the Commission for Societal and Social Issues (VI) of the German Bishops' Conference (2012), he is also on the Board of directors, International Research Area on Catholic Social Doctrine, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome (2011 ). In 2010 he was appointed scientific supervisor in the PhD program “Social Market Economy” of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . He was awarded the Constantin von Dietze Prize of the Faculty of Economics, University of Freiburg (2002). Previously, Nils Goldschmidt received the Bernhard Welte Prize from the Theological Faculty, University of Freiburg in 1995.

Further memberships

Goldschmidt is a member of the board of the Wilhelm-Röpke-Institut eV, Erfurt, member of the board of the Görres-Gesellschaft , Bonn, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Walter Eucken Institute , Freiburg. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Roman Herzog Institute in Munich and the Catholic Social Science Center in Mönchengladbach.

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • Social services. Economics, law, politics, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (UTB) 2013 (with Georg Cremer and Sven Höfer).
  • Origins and Legacies of Ordoliberal Thought. Walter Eucken and the necessity of a cultural economy, Münster: LIT-Verlag 2002.
  • Nils Goldschmidt (Hrsg.), Gerhard Beestermöller (Hrsg.), Gerhard Steger (Hrsg.), The future of the family and their dangers. Norbert Glatzel on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= writings of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, Volume 44), Münster 2002.

Essays

  • Votes on behalf of children: a legitimate way of giving them a voice in politics ?, in: Constitutional Political Economy 26 (2015), 356–374 (with Stephan Wolf and Thomas Petersen).
  • Weasel or ermine? Structural justice as the foundation of a modern social market economy, in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik (zfwu) 14,1 (2013), 8–22 (with Inga Fuchs-Goldschmidt).
  • Walter Eucken's Place in the History of Ideas, in: Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013), 127–147.
  • The relation between institutional and cultural factors in economic development: the case of Indonesia, in: Journal of Institutional Economics 8 (2012), 459-488 (with Roger Spranz and Alexander Lenger).
  • What do economists talk about? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals, in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology 66 (2007), 335–378 (with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi).

Co-editor (magazines)

  • Schmoller's yearbook. Journal of Contextual Economics
  • ORDO. Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society
  • Journal of Politics

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the professorship at the University of Siegen. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Rethinking the social market economy ... an initiative of the Jena Alliance PDF. Retrieved June 30, 2018
  3. Nils Goldschmidt, Hans-Jürgen Schlösser, Michael shoes: Good rules for the economy. in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 20, 2014. Page 18.