Reinhard Blomert

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Reinhard Blomert (* 1951 in Rheine ) is a German sociologist and university professor.

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Blomert is editor of the social science journal Leviathan - Berlin journal for social science . Before that he taught at several German universities and was visiting professor in Graz and Paris. His main research interests are in the area of ​​social history, in particular economic history and financial history. He was involved in the founding of the study group Civilization and Society and published a study on theoretical construction by Norbert Elias. Also published Blomert contributions to various periodicals, including Time: .

In 2003 he published a study of the dot.com bubble ("Die Habgierigen. Firmenpiraten, Stock Exchange Manipulation: Capitalism Out of Control", Antje Kunstmann Verlag Munich), in which Blomert describes the history of the transition from relatively egalitarian Rhenish capitalism to financial capitalism with its growing Inequality using the example of the market for Internet companies. In 2007 he published a biography of John Maynard Keynes (Rowohlt Monographs).

Most recently Blomert published in the “ Other Library ” the book “Adam Smith's Journey to France or the Emergence of Political Economy ” (2012), in which he explains Adam Smith from his time and, on the background of Smith's two-year journey through France, a series of gets to the bottom of widespread misinterpretations. He describes how Smith, as a member of European court society, taught his students high ethical standards with the help of the figure of the "inner judge" who prevents selfish behavior and demands social acceptance and legitimacy. It is an anticipation of the Freudian superego, the historical appearance of which Norbert Elias had already observed during the time of court society.

Fonts (selection)

  • Psyche and civilization: on theoretical construction in Norbert Elias , 2nd edition, Münster: Lit, 1991, ISBN 3-88660-431-4
  • Intellectuals on the move. Karl Mannheim, Alfred Weber, Norbert Elias and the Heidelberg social sciences of the interwar period. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3446197567
  • The greedy. Corporate piracy, stock market manipulation: capitalism out of control. Antje Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3888973287
  • John Maynard Keynes , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2007 (Rowohlt's monographs), ISBN 978-3-499-50451-8 .
  • "The subprime crisis or: How the real estate crisis turned into a tangible economic crisis", in Stephan A. Jansen / Eckhard Schröter / Nico Stehr, "Value-Added Capitalism", series of writings from the Zeppelin University, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 129 -147
  • "On the civilization of capitalist aristocracies", in Sighard Neckel (ed.) "Capitalist Realism", Campus Vlg. Ffm, 2010, pp. 117-137
  • "Robbers among themselves", in Cicero. Magazine for Political Culture, Sept. 2010, pp. 101–105
  • Adam Smith's trip to France or the emergence of political economy, The Other Library (founded by Hans Magnus Enzensberger), Aufbau Verlag Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8477-0335-8 .
  • Debt and Guilty. German crisis interpretations (on the subject of the euro crisis), in WZB-Mitteilungen 137, Sept. 2012, pp. 21–24
  • "Why is there no world central bank? Keynes' reflections on a world monetary system", in agora 42, edition 01/2014, pp. 58–63
  • "Adam Smith - the philosopher who invented economics", in agora 42, edition 02/2013, pp. 40–47
  • "Die endangered democracy", in sheets for German and international politics, "the great newspaper die", 1/13, pp. 97-100

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.perlentaucher.de/autoren/60/Reinhard_Blomert.html
  2. ^ Article by Blomert in Die Zeit