Rigmar Osterkamp

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Rigmar Osterkamp (* 1944 ) is a German economist .

Life

Osterkamp is the son of the Hamburg merchants Herluf and Dorothea Osterkamp and grew up in Hamburg. In 1964 he graduated from the Johanneum School of Academics . After completing compulsory military service, he studied economics, first in Hamburg, then at the Free University of Berlin and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). The thesis was based on a six-month research stay in Ethiopia and dealt with the question of human and financial resources for an Ethiopian industrialization strategy.

After graduating with a degree in economics in 1970, Osterkamp became a research assistant at the LMU with Hans Möller . His doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. took place in 1975 with a work on a comparison of alternative instruments of environmental protection .

From 1978 Osterkamp joined the developing countries department of the Munich Ifo Institute for Economic Research and soon afterwards became editor of the refereed journal ifo studies - journal for empirical economic research . On Osterkamp's initiative, the Ifo Academy for Economic Policy was founded in 1992 , which he headed until 1999. In cooperation with economics professorships, the Academy carried out training courses on economic policy for leading politicians and civil servants in the former Eastern Bloc countries . Osterkamp also headed, together with Wolfgang Ochel, the department for International Institutional Comparisons , which was newly founded under Hans-Werner Sinn and which also headed the DICE-Report - Journal for Institutional Comparisons and the DICE-Database for Institutional Comparisons.

In 2007 Osterkamp finished his work at the Ifo Institute and went to Namibia for four years . There he was initially a consultant at the economic research institute NEPRU ( Namibia Economic Policy Research Unit ) and was then appointed Senior Lecturer Economics at the University of Namibia (UNAM) in Windhoek .

Since 2011 Osterkamp has been an independent scientific advisor on topics such as unconditional basic income , organ transplants , global warming , the future of Europe and the relationships between rich and poor countries. He also gives lectures on these topics and was a guest on radio broadcasts.

He is the author and co-author of numerous specialist publications, including articles in edited volumes and specialist journals.

Osterkamp is a member of the Association for Social Policy, the German Society for Health Economics and a board member of the Association Against Death on the Organ Waiting List

Teaching

From 1980 to 1984 Osterkamp was a lecturer in development economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1988–1992, 1997–2007 and 2011–2015, he also taught at the Munich School of Politics in the fields of economic, regulatory and development policy.

From 2008 to 2011 he was Senior Lecturer Economics at the University of Namibia with a focus on economic policy, international economic relations, empirical economic research and climate change.

Scientific focus

Environmental economic and environmental policy issues were among Osterkamp's early areas of interest. Several publications emerged from this.

In the field of development economics and development aid, Osterkamp mainly dealt with Africa , and later with Asia . His country interests were first in Ethiopia , then for a few years in Algeria , where he also advised the Institut National de la Productivité et du Développement (INPED) on behalf of the Ifo Institute in 1978/79 . He has been critical of Algeria's economic policy in several publications. Work on transnational problems in developing countries and development aid policy took up a lot of space . Some works were also oriented towards regulatory policy in the broadest sense.

When dealing with Japan and South Korea , questions of reunification policy and the euro were the focus. The transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia were also the subject of the analysis. In addition, Osterkamp developed an economic simulation game ( Ardistan ) for the transition countries , in which regulatory reforms towards a market economy can be carried out, which result in the need for certain process-political decisions. The simulation game was also practically tested with Russian economics students in the years after 1990.

Osterkamp also dealt with the issue of the Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). He is a critical companion of the idea of ​​a UBI and is in favor of determining the behavioral changes that a UBI might trigger and which are welcomed by the proponents of the UBI and feared by the opponents through properly carried out experiments or tests.

Osterkamp has been dealing with health economic issues since the beginning of the 2000s, since 2010 especially with the lack of transplantable organs , gave numerous lectures on this topic and was a guest on the radio. Regarding the question of a reform of the German transplant legislation, Osterkamp advocates a solution to the contradiction and the promotion of cross-donation.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • From dealer to industrial entrepreneur? On professional mobility in developing countries using the example of Ethiopia . Weltforum Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 978-3803901101
  • with Hans Möller , Wolfgang Schneider: Environmental Economics , Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts. 1982, ISBN ISBN 978-3-7610-5020-0
  • with Axel J. Halbach, Jürgen Riedel: The investment policy of developing countries and their impact on the investment behavior of German entrepreneurs . Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 1982, ISBN 978-3-8039-0255-9
  • with AJ Halbach, H.-G. Braun, A. Gälli: Economic order, socio-economic development and global economic integration in the developing countries . Series of studies by the BMWi, No. 36, Bonn 1982
  • Standards and taxes as alternative instruments of environmental policy - a theoretical comparison. (also dissertation), Ifo studies on environmental economics, Vol. 1, Munich 1984
  • The capital goods industry. A third world growth engine? On the strategic importance of the capital goods industry in developing countries , Weltforum Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3803903341
  • with Wolfgang Gerstenberger, M. Wegner: Means for Re-establishing International Economic Stability in an Internationally Cooperative System . Tokyo / Munich 1987
  • with Axel J. Halbach: The role of barter for developing countries . Weltforum Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-8039-0367-9
  • with Helmut Helmschrott, Siegfried Schönherr: Stagnation in the Third World. Has economic policy failed? Weltforum Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-8039-0405-8
  • with Wolfgang Gerstenberger: Economic Problems of National Unification. Proceedings of a German-Korean Conference . Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-88512-229-6
  • as ed. with Kaoru Takahashi: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and German Economic Success . Springer Japan, Tokyo 1997, ISBN 978-4-431-65867-2
  • with Hermann Clement, Joachim Jungfer et al .: Measuring the progress of transformation. State influence on economic activity in selected transition countries . Weltforum Verla, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-8039-0477-5
  • with S. Fulamov, M. Sharifhodjaev: Market economy. an introductory textbook, publication in Uzbek language . Tashkent 2000
  • with Jutta Albrecht, Gerhard Huber, Siegfried Schönherr: Economic situation and reform processes in the countries of Central Asia . Ifo research reports, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-88512-411-5
  • with T. Randolph Beard, David Kaserman: The Global Organ Shortage - Economic Causes, Human Consequences, Policy Responses . Stanford University Press 2013, ISBN 978-0804784092
  • as publisher: On the test stand: An unconditional basic income for Germany? Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2045-3

Contributions to edited volumes

  • National economic policy and exogenous influencing factors. To explain the economic problems of developing countries . In: Theory of Economic Policy, Festschrift for Hans Möller . Edited by Johann-Matthias von der Schulenburg, Hans-Werner Sinn, Tübingen 1990.
  • Relationships between development theory, economic policy, indebtedness and stagnation in Africa . In: Structural Problems and Reforms in Africa . Edited by Karl Heinrich Oppenländer, Siegfried Schönherr, Weltforum Verlag Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-8039-0383-9
  • Transformation policy . In: Lexicon of Economics , Munich 1994.
  • Structural adjustment : In: Lexikon der Volkswirtschaft , Munich 1994.
  • Privatization . In: Lexicon of Economics , Munich 1994.
  • State failure and state interventionism as a cause of the 'African crisis' . In: Africa between decolonization, state failure and democratization . Edited by Rainer Tetzlaff, Ulf Engel, Andreas Mehler, Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-928049-30-6
  • Economic development in Russia since 1991 . In: Russia. Continuity, Conflict and Change . Edited by Reinhard C. Meier-Walser, Bernd Rill, Atwerb Verlag, Grünwald 2002, pp. 215-230.
  • Loss of work due to illness - an international comparison. In: Absence Report 2002 , edited by Berhard Badura, Christian Vetter, Henner Schellschmidt, Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-642-59351-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c IPG-Journal: Authors: Rigmar Osterkamp from Munich. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ DICE - Database for Institutional Comparisons of Economies. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Deutschlandfunk: Economist on the unconditional basic income - "Not a catastrophe". June 5, 2016, accessed May 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Deutschlandfunk: Rigmar Osterkamp vs. Jochen Vollmann - Only no means no: should organ donation become the norm? September 15, 2018, accessed May 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Only no means no: should organ donation become the norm? Jochen Vollmann debates on Deutschlandfunk, series “Streitkultur”, September 15, 2018. In: Ruhr University Bochum. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Association against death on the organ waiting list: Who we are. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ University of Namibia, Economics Department Lecture Series, lecture on March 23, 2010: "Climate change in a global and African perspective: an economist's view".
  8. ↑ Rigmar Osterkamp: The state finances of Ethiopia - how solid are they? In: German-Ethiopian Association e. V. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  9. ^ Bienvenue sur le site officiel de l'INPED. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Germany and its infrastructure - underestimated and threatened. In: Stern. August 21, 2003, accessed May 13, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Rigmar Osterkamp: Waiting for operations - an international comparison . In: Ifo-Schnelldienst (=  Ifo-Schnelldienst. - Munich: Ifo-Inst. For economic research, ISSN 0018-974X, ZDB-ID 218518-0. - Vol. 55.2002, 10, p. 14-21 ). tape 55 , no. 10 , 2002 ( econbiz.de [accessed on May 13, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Georg-August University of Göttingen - Public Relations: Report: Panel discussion on the reform of organ donation - Georg August University of Göttingen. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Osterkamp, ​​Rigmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944