Peter Bernholz

Peter Bernholz (born February 18, 1929 in Bad Salzuflen ) is a German - Swiss economist .

Life

Bernholz studied economics at the Universities of Marburg and Munich from 1950 and graduated in 1953 with a diploma. In 1955 he received his doctorate in Marburg. From 1956 to 1962 he was a research assistant or research assistant to Hans Möller and Heinz Sauermann at the universities of Frankfurt and Munich. In 1962 he received his habilitation in Frankfurt . In 1963/64 he was a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation at Harvard and Stanford Universities .

From 1964 to 1966 Bernholz was a lecturer at the University of Frankfurt and from 1966 to 1971 full professor at the Technical University of Berlin . From 1971 to 1997 he was a full professor of economics, especially economic policy , money and foreign trade , at the University of Basel . In 1982/83 he was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History there . Despite calls to the universities of Bonn and Kiel, Bernholz remained loyal to the University of Basel.

Bernholz was visiting professor at MIT in 1969, at the Center for Study of Public Choice of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1974 and 1978, and at George Mason University, at Stanford University in 1981, at the University of California Los Angeles in 1986/87, at the Australian National University 1993, the University of California Irvine 1998, the Universita La Sapienzia, Rome, 2000, at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin 2000/01 and at the Universitaet Innsbruck 2002. He is Research Fellow of the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax , Virginia. Several research stays there since 1983.

From 1974 to 1980 Bernholz was President of the European Public Choice Society , from 1992 to 1998 he was a board member of the Mont Pelerin Society . Bernholz has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1974 (as of March 2017) .

He is a member of the Association for Social Policy and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He is an honorary doctor from the Universities of Konstanz and Freiburg.

Bernholz's main areas of work are Austrian real capital theory (Faber 1979), political economy (origin 1994), social choice theory (Bernholz 2012), totalitarianism (Bernholz 1997) and monetary theory, policy and history (Bernholz 2003 and 2007).

In 2017, Bernholz received the Hayek Medal .

He is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

Books

As an author:

• The law of the increased productivity of longer production routes and the pure capital theory. Dissertation, University of Marburg, 1955.
• Foreign policy and international economic relations. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1966 (habilitation thesis, University of Frankfurt, 1962).
• Basics of Political Economy. 3 volumes. Mohr, Tübingen 1972/75/79.
• Currency crises and currency order. Hoffman and Campe, Hamburg 1974.
• Flexible Exchange Rates in Historical Perspective (= Princeton Studies in International Finance. No. 49). Princeton University, Princeton 1982.
• The International Game of Power. Past, Present and Future. Mouton, Berlin / New York / Amsterdam 1985.
• Monetary Regimes and Inflation. History, Economic and Political Relationships. Elgar, Cheltenham 2003; 2nd edition 2015.
• Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values. History and Theory. Springer, Heidelberg / New York / London 2017.

As editor:

• with Gerard Radnitzky : Economic Imperialism. The Economic Method Applied Outside the Field of Economics. Paragon House, New York 1986.
• with Manfred E. Streit , Roland Vaubel : Political Competition, Innovation and Growth. A Historical Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg New York 1998.
• with Roland Vaubel: Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations. Elgar, Cheltenham 2004.
• with Roland Vaubel: Political Competition and Economic Regulation. Routledge, London / New York 2007.
• with Roland Vaubel: Explaining Monetary and Financial Innovation. A Historical Analysis. Springer, Heidelberg / New York / London 2014.

Essays

• The Importance of Boehm-Bawerks Theory of Capital and Interest from a Historical Pertspective. In: History of Economic Ideas. Vol. 1, No. 2, 1993, pp. 21-54.
• Ideology, sects, state and totaltarianism: A general theory. In: Hans Maier (Ed.): Totalitarianism and Political Religions. Concepts of dictatorship comparison. Volume 2, Schoeningh, Paderborn 1997, pp. 271-298.
• The Bundesbank and currency integration in Europe. In: Fifty Years of the German Mark. Edited by the Deutsche Bundesbank. Beck, Munich 1998, pp. 773-831.
• Monetary Regimes and Inflation. History, Economic and Political Relationships. Elgar, Cheltenham 2003; 2nd edition 2015.
• The National Bank 1945–1982: From the foreign exchange ban economy to money supply control with flexible exchange rates. In: The Swiss National Bank 1907–2007. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2007, pp. 119–211.
• From the Calculus of Consent to extended logging, negative externalities, and the Coase theorem. In: Public Choice. Vol. 152, 2012, pp. 265-261.

literature

• Malte Faber : Introduction to Modern Austrian Capital Theory. Lecture Notes in Economic and Mathematical Systems. Springer: Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1979.
• Heinrich W. Ursprung: Political Economy in the 1990s: a special issue in commemoration of Peter Bernholz '65th birthday. In: European Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 10, 1994, pp. 3-10.
• Marc Blaug: Who's Who in Economics. 3. Edition. Elgar, Cheltenham 1999, p. 99 f.

Web links

• Peter Bernholz holdings in the Swiss Economic Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Members of the Scientific Advisory Board ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of the Federal Republic of Germany, accessed on March 11, 2017. 
2. ↑ Hayek Medalist