Rainer Land

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Rainer Land (born February 15, 1952 in Caputh ) is a German social and economic scientist.

Life

Rainer Land grew up in the GDR , went to school in Potsdam and studied philosophy and economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1975 to 1983 . Until 1990 he worked as a research assistant or senior assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1990 he left this university and since 1992 has worked as editor of the journal Berliner Debatte Initial and since 2002 at the Thünen Institute for Regional Development eV in Bollewick ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ), where he is involved in various research projects. The founding of the East Germany Research Network in 2006 was the result of his initiative.

Memberships

Rainer Land was a member of the SED from 1971 to January 1990 . He was independent until 2018 and has been a member of the SPD since February 2018. He was an active and is now a corresponding member of the Green Academy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation . Land is a member of the advisory board of the scientific open access journal Momentum Quarterly, founded in 2012, and a member of the Willy Brandt Circle .

Scientific achievements

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The scientific work of Rainer Land is characterized by the attempt to work on socio-economic questions of the development of capitalism , state socialism and the upheavals of the present through evolutionary arguments and models; In doing so, he explicitly refers to the theory of economic development by Joseph Alois Schumpeter and the evolutionary aspects of the systems theory by Niklas Luhmann . The following scientific innovations were put up for discussion in his research:

  1. In his doctoral thesis in 1984, on the basis of the development of capitalism in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, he showed that production relationships as relationships of social subjects to one another always have a historically (mainly through technological development) changing relationship between society and nature (today as social Nature relations ) correspond, both evolve as a unit and in this the core of Marx's "dialectic of productive forces and production relations " is to be seen. The capitalism of the 20th century is based on a type of technology, which is referred to as an “industrial natural process” in connection with Marx and which became the dominant economic basis in the electrotechnical and chemical revolution of the productive forces in the late 19th century. With the revolutions of the productive forces and the social relations of nature, transformations of the production relations and the mode of capital utilization are connected. This evolutionary theoretical approach was retained and deepened in later work.
  2. In studies on the development of agriculture in regions with a predominantly large-scale tradition, the de-bedding thesis developed together with Andreas Willisch explained why the economically successful development of agricultural businesses today must lead to the impoverishment and dissolution of rural society in these regions.
  3. The concept of the secondary mode of integration, also developed in collaboration with Andreas Willisch at the Thünen Institute (Sociology Congress 2004), is not an attempt to deal with the new social problem situations and segregations that have arisen in the developed capitalist countries with increasing basic unemployment since the 1980s to be explained by a model of social exclusion, but by institutionally structured secondary integration processes which, in addition to the continued dominant integration on the basis of gainful employment, spread and result in social segregation.
  4. The theory of participation capitalism explains which constitutive components differentiate global capitalism ( Fordism ) , which emerged after the Second World War, from previous types of capitalism, why in this regime of economic development the law of relative surplus value production established by Marx has been abolished and that the erosion of participation capitalism since the middle The 1970s is ultimately due to negative economies of scale from the remaining energy and (natural) resource efficiency. In the discussion about the ecological modernization Rainer country is trying to show by recourse to evolutionary concepts that the socio-economic upheavals of the present can be understood as a transformation of the development mode to a Ökokapitalismus, with which a new, on-time again functioning Koevolutionsverhältniss between social relationship with nature and Capital realization could be constituted.

In addition, Rainer Land tried to explain the stagnation of economic development under state socialism with arguments based on evolutionary theory and published together with Ralf Possekel on the relationship between the citizens' movement and SED reformers in the 1980s.

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  1. ↑ Employees of the Thünen Institute ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thuenen-institut.de
  2. ^ Members of the Willy Brandt Circle: Rainer Land. Willy-Brandt-Kreis, accessed on October 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Rainer Land: Evolution and Alienation. Economic subsystems and individual living environments in social development , Berliner Debatte Initial, Heft 6 (1990), pp. 636–663 [1] (PDF; 2.3 MB)
  4. ↑ Rainer Land, Ralf Possekel: Foreign Worlds. The opposing interpretation of the GDR by SED reformers and the citizens' movement in the 1980s , Berlin: Ch. Links, 1998 [2]
personal data
SURNAME Country, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Caputh