René L. Frey

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René Leo Frey (born March 9, 1939 in Basel ) is a Swiss economist .

Life

Frey studied economics at the University of Basel and graduated in 1963 with a licentiate. His teachers were Edgar Salin , Gottfried Bombach and Jacques Stohler . In 1964 he received his doctorate in Basel and qualified as a professor in 1969. In 1970, he succeeded the late Jacques Stohler as a full professor of economics at the University of Basel. 1979/80 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History; from October 1, 1996 to September 30, 1998 he was Rector of the University of Basel. In 2004 he retired.

From 1969 to 2014 Frey was - together with his brother Bruno S. Frey - editor and at times co-editor of the economic journal Kyklos . After his retirement he founded the “Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts” (CREMA) with Bruno S. Frey, Reiner Eichenberger and Margit Osterloh . His areas of specialization in teaching, research and consulting are theoretical and Swiss economic policy, public finances and spatial economics (regional, urban, environmental and transport economics). In Switzerland he was involved as an expert in the reorientation of financial equalization, regional policy and university funding.

Under the pseudonym Leopold Yerf, René L. Frey writes detective novels with an economic and university background as a hobby.

Frey is married and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Structural Changes in the Israeli Economy. Tübingen: Mohr 1965 (dissertation).
  • Infrastructure. Basics of planning public investments. Tübingen: Mohr 1970, 2nd edition 1972 (habilitation thesis).
  • Economy, State and Welfare. An introduction to economics. Basel / Frankfurt a. M .: Helbing & Lichtenhahn 1975, 11th edition 2002.
  • Between federalism and centralism. An economic concept of the Swiss federal state. Bern: Lang 1977.
  • Growth policy. Stuttgart: Fischer 1979.
  • with Ernst A. Brugger: Regional Policy Switzerland: Goals, Problems, Experiences, Reforms. Bern: Haupt 1985.
  • ed. with Robert E. Leu: The welfare state under the microscope. Distribution and redistribution of wealth in Switzerland. Basel / Frankfurt a. M .: Helbing & Lichtenhahn 1988.
  • Urban growth - urban change. An economic analysis of the Swiss agglomerations. Basel / Frankfurt a. M .: Helbing & Lichtenhahn 1990.
  • with Hansjörg Blöchliger: Protect or use: compensation payments in nature and landscape protection. Chur / Zurich: Rüegger 1991.
  • with Christoph Gysin, Robert E. Leu and Norbert Schmassmann: Energy, environmental damage and environmental protection in Switzerland. Chur / Zurich: Rüegger 1985, 2nd edition 1991.
  • ed. with Elke Staehelin-Witt and Hansjörg Blöchliger: With economy to ecology. Analysis and solutions of the environmental problem from an economic point of view. Basel / Frankfurt a. M .: Helbing & Lichtenhahn 1991, 2nd edition 1993.
  • Economy of Urban Mobility. With true costs for the sustainable development of agglomeration traffic. Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine vdf 1994 (partial synthesis of the NRP “City and Transport”).
  • City: living and economic area. Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine vdf 1996.
  • Strong centers - strong Alps. How Switzerland's cities and rural areas can develop. Zurich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung 2008.
  • with Claudia Frey Marti: privatization and deregulation. Reforms of Swiss infrastructure policy. Zurich / Chur: Rüegger 2012.

literature

  • Christoph A. Schaltegger and Stefan C. Schaltegger (eds.): Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsppolitik. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. René L. Frey. Zurich: Verlag der Fachvereine 2004.

Web links

  • CV and publications , website of CREMA (Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Expansion and consolidation of economics after the Second World War , website 550 years University of Basel, accessed on June 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ detective novels of Leopold Yerf , site of CREMA, accessed on 19 June 2016th
personal data
SURNAME Frey, René L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, René Leo (full name); Yerf, Leopold (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel