Philip Plickert

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Philip Plickert (born September 24, 1979 in Munich ) is a German journalist and university lecturer. He has a doctorate in economics and has been a member of the business editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) since April 2007 .

Life

Educational path

After graduating from high school and doing military service, Plickert began studying economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1999 . In 2001 he moved to the London School of Economics . In 2003 he completed his studies there with a thesis on economic history . He then conducted research on the development of neoliberalism in the history of ideas and the Mont Pelerin Society . He presented the results of his research in his dissertation transformations of neoliberalism is with which he in 2007 Joachim Starbatty at the University of Tuebingen "summa cum laude" doctorate was. He was a graduate fellow of the Hanns Seidel Foundation .

Private

Plickert is married and has three sons.

journalism

Plickert has been an editor at the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" since 2007. For ten years, Plickert was responsible for the “The Economist” page in the FAZ business section. In mid-2019 he moved to London as a business correspondent for the UK and Ireland for the FAZ. Every two weeks he is a guest on the BBC Radio4Live program Up All Night. He published or published in various newspapers and magazines, u. a. in Parliament , in the daily mail , in Cicero / Literatures, in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Junge Freiheit , the Jüdische Allgemeine , the Weltwoche , on Tichy's insight , the Swiss Month (formerly Swiss Monthly Issues), in the magazines strangely free , Liberal - The magazine for freedom and COURAGE , the political studies of the Hanns Seidel Foundation and in Deutschlandradio Kultur .

University activity

Plickert was a lecturer for the history of economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main at the chair of Rainer Klump (professorship for economics, especially economic development and integration). He also taught at the Center for Economic Education (ZöBiS) at the University of Siegen from 2015 to 2017 .

Memberships

Plickert is a member of the Hayek Society and deputy chairman of the Hayek Club Frankfurt. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Econwatch Society for Policy Analysis. Since his student days he has been a member of the Arminia-Rhenania fraternity in Munich .

Publications

Changes in Neoliberalism (2007)

content

In his dissertation, Plickert describes the emergence of neoliberalism in the development and charisma of the Mont Pelerin Society . In the first part, he traces the trends in liberalism from the 19th century to the First World War . Liberalism found its strongest counterpoint in the state interventionism of the world economic crisis, which it was only able to overcome after the Second World War . In the second part, the structure of the MPS as a scientific research institute and discussion forum is presented. The third part is devoted to the influence of neoliberal theories in the practical politics of the five most important economic nations of the West in the 1950s and 60s, whereby only ordoliberalism in West Germany took up and implemented the impulses. The fourth part deals with Margaret Thatcher's and Ronald Reagan's economic policy “turn of the tide” , which is understood as a largely consistent outflow of neoliberal thought.

Reviews

Michael von Prollius , management consultant and economic historian at the think tank Liberales Institut and, like Plickert himself, a member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society , sees Philip Plickert's history of ideas on neoliberalism as “the potential for a standard work”. Marcus M. Payk (working at the University of Stuttgart at the time of the review) judges that on the whole Plickert treats his subject with sympathy and in this way indicates his own regulatory preferences. The reviewer does not regard it as a coincidence that “the supervisor of the dissertation is chairman of the Action Group Social Market Economy , which has also subsidized the pressure of the work.” The history of ideas of liberalism, a history of economic theory formation and a history of intellectual forms of association. "Methodologically based on conventional lines, the study nevertheless convinces with an instructive combination of different levels of observation and different types of sources." Matthias Schmelzer points out in his book Freedom for Exchange Rates and Capital: The Origins of Neoliberal Monetary Policy and the Mont Pélerin Society that Plickert himself " Part of the MPS network ”and“ does not present a value-neutral analysis ”, but provides an“ uncritical ”presentation of the Mont Pelerin Society. In the NZZ, Gerd Habermann praises Plickert's monograph as a classic representation of the history of neoliberalism in the 20th century. It is a stroke of luck that the author is "not only a descriptive historian, but also a 'neoliberal' trained economist".

Book "Merkel: A Critical Balance" (2017)

In June 2017 - three months before the Bundestag election - Plickert published the anthology "Merkel: A Critical Balance" with contributions from 22 professors and journalists in FinanzBook Verlag. The authors are: Norbert Bolz , Werner J. Patzelt , Wolfgang Ockenfels , Ralf Georg Reuth , Birgit Kelle , Daniel Koerfer , Dominik Geppert , David Marsh , Henning Klodt , Stefan Kooths , Justus Haucap , Roland Tichy , Cora Stephan , Thilo Sarrazin , Michael Wolffsohn , Rafael Seligmann , Necla Kelek , Anthony Glees , Boris Kálnoky , Andreas Unterberger , Christopher Caldwell and Erich Vad .

The book mainly deals with Merkel's policy in the refugee crisis, her economic, European and energy policy and the left shift of the Union, but also covers international aspects. The book was on the “Spiegel” bestseller list for fourteen weeks. and was printed in a total of seven editions.

There have been numerous reviews and reports in the press. Susanne Gaschke wrote in the “Welt”, in the middle of the election campaign, well-known authors dared to settle accounts with the Chancellor. Eckhard Stuff praised Stuff on the cultural radio of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb): “Philip Plickert has succeeded in gathering knowledgeable critics of Merkel's politics. … Very readable. ”The“ taz ”criticized, however, that the book contained“ Merkel abhorrence ”.

In the "Allgemeine Zeitung" (Mainz), Jonas Hermann wrote: "Compared to the often weak wind criticism of Merkel, Plickert's book is a tornado that devastates mother's garden and should give Merkel allergy sufferers a boost for the next round of discussions" (Jonas Hermann: Broadside against the Chancellor, Allgemeine Zeitung, July 6, 2017). The newspaper “Luxemburger Wort” found the book “perky. It sets a counterpoint to the constant praise that Merkel receives mainly from the international press ”(Jochen Zehnthöfer, Merkel's silence is her weapon, Luxemburger Wort, August 19/20, 2017) Robert Michels found the book in the“ Rheinische Post ” “Strong stuff” and “very readable”. The “Nordwest-Zeitung” (Oldenburg) wrote that “Merkel myths would be thoroughly shattered”. The “Oberbayerische Volksblatt” wrote critically that it was “a stimulating book with a clear agenda. It means: Merkel has to go ”. On the other hand, the head of the foreign affairs department, Peter Rásonyi, praised the fact that “many contradictions and weaknesses (Merkel's) were uncovered” and the book was “very readable”.

Awards

In 2009 he received the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Business Journalism from the Ludwig Erhard Foundation and in 2010 the Friedwart Bruckhaus Prize from the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation .

Other fonts (selection)

  • The unprepared reunion. In: Orientations to Economic and Social Policy. (Journal of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation ), March 2008, pp. 31–37.
  • Neoliberalism between laissez-faire and a strong state. In: Wolfgang Kersting (Hrsg.): Freedom and Justice. The moral foundations of the social market economy. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt 2010, pp. 27–42
  • Two kinds of clarification. Consequences for Europe. In: Gerhard Schwarz and Michael Wohlgemuth (eds.): The struggle for freedom: 'The constitution of freedom' after 50 years. NZZ Verlag, Zurich 2011, pp. 159–175
  • The strong state as an ideal and an illusion. Regulatory policy after the financial crisis. In: Christian Sebastian Moser (Ed.): Conservative corrections. Edition Noir, Vienna 2011, pp. 79–149.
  • The Battle of Ideas: Neoliberal Economics and Politics in the 20th Century. In: Robert Leeson (Ed.): Hayek: A Collaborative Biography. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2015, pp. 73-151
  • Freedom of expression under threat. In: Orientations to Economic and Social Policy. (Journal of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation ), June 2015, pp. 81–92.
  • Economics in search of meaning. A book for doubting students and critical professors . Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch, Frankfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-95601-172-6 .
  • National Socialism: A Toxic Cocktail. In: Dieter Stein (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Karlheinz Weißmann for his sixtieth birthday. JF Edition, Berlin 2019, pp. 181–190

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philip Plickert. In: FAZ.net . Retrieved October 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://pplickert.de/sample-page/
  3. ↑ http://www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/wiwi/wid/team/lehrbeauftragte/?lang=de .
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / bsa2014.jimdo.com
  5. ↑ http://www.econwatch.org/kuratorium.php
  6. ↑ http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=17479
  7. ↑ http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/2009-1-097
  8. ↑ http://library.fes.de/fulltext/afs/htmrez/81079.htm
  9. ^ Matthias Schmelzer: Freedom for exchange rates and capital. The origins of neoliberal monetary policy and the Mont Pèlerin Society. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg 2010, p. 26.
  10. ↑ Gerd Habermann: A standard work on the work of the Mont Pèlerin Society. The power of liberal ideas. NZZ, November 28, 2008, accessed on March 14, 2016.
  11. ↑ https://www.m-vg.de/mediafiles/Inhaltsverzeichnis/9783959720656.pdf
  12. ↑ https://www.buchreport.de/bestseller/buch/isbn/9783959720656.htm/
  13. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/politik/article165724742/Utopische-Ppolitik-Opportunismus-Machiavellismus.html
  14. ↑ https://www.kulturradio.de/programm/schema/sendung/kulturradio_am_morgen/archiv/20170627_0605/lesestoff_0830.html
  15. ↑ https://taz.de/Praesentation-eines-Buches-ueber-Merkel/!5418832/
  16. ↑ https://rp-online.de/kultur/merkel-als-kanzlerin-ohne-plan_aid-17973749
  17. ↑ https://www.nwzonline.de/politik/merkel-mythen-gruendet-zertruemmert_a_32,0,452909758.html
  18. ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/weltspiegel/politik/reiterin-apokalypse-8485014.html
  19. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/international/merkels-bilanz-ld.1367852
personal data
SURNAME Plickert, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich