Ralf Ptak

Ralf Ptak (born July 16, 1960 in Kiel ) is a doctor of economics and an academic adviser for general economics at the human sciences faculty of the University of Cologne . He is also a member of the Alternative Economic Policy working group ( memorandum group) and a member of the scientific advisory board of attac . His work focuses on the history of economic theory , social and educational policy, and right-wing extremism .

Ptak grew up in Kiel and completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter . After working as a skilled worker and works council , he began studying economics at the University of Economics and Politics in Hamburg in the early 1990s and graduated in 1996 with a degree in social economics . He wrote his dissertation on From Ordoliberalism to the Social Market Economy. Stations of neoliberalism in Germany and received his doctorate in 2004.

He is currently working as an economics consultant for the church service in the world of work.

Publications (selection)

together with Claudia von Braunmühl, Heide Gerstenberger , Christa Wichterich (eds.): ABC of global (dis) order. From »Anthropocene« to »Civil Society« , Hamburg: VSA-Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-96488-003-1 .
More and better education through the market and competition? Theses on the political economy of the current educational debate , in: I. Lohmann / S. Mielich / F. Muhl / K.-J. Pazzini / L. Rieger / E. Wilhelm (Ed.), Bielefeld: [transcript] 2011, pp. 105-120, ISBN 978-3-837-61751-1 .
Neoliberalism. Analyzes and alternatives , together with Christoph Butterwegge , Bettina Lösch (Ed.), Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15186-1 .
Critique of Neoliberalism , together with Christoph Butterwegge, Bettina Lösch Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2nd, improved edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15809-9 .
From ordoliberalism to the social market economy. Stations of neoliberalism in Germany. Opladen: Leske + Budrich Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-8100-4111-4 .
Do you want the total market? Neoliberalism and the extreme right , Herbert Schui / Ralf Ptak / Stephani Blankenburg / Günter Bachmann / Dirk Kotzur, Knaur, Munich 1997.

Literature by and about Ralf Ptak in the catalog of the German National Library
Video recording: Ralf Ptak More and better education through the market and competition? Theses on the political economy of the current educational debate. Lecture at the symposium: Brave new education? Conference on the critical reflection of the current university structure and the development of emancipatory alternatives in the University of Hamburg on June 16, 2010
Ralf Ptak: Has neoliberalism come to an end? About the difficulties and tasks of a just (world) economic order. Lecture as part of the lecture series on social sciences at the human sciences faculty of the University of Cologne on April 21, 2009