Robert Nef

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Robert Nef (* 1942 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss publicist and author .

life and career

Nef studied law in Zurich and Vienna. Between 1961 and 1991 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Law at the ETH Zurich . Between 1979 and 2007 he headed the  Liberal Institute , which he later presided over. He is currently (2018) a member of the Institute's Board of Trustees. From 1994 to 2008 he was co-editor of the Swiss monthly magazine . He is a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society and the Friedrich August von Hayek Society, President of the Society and Church where? , Vice-President of the Freedom and Responsibility Foundation and was President of the Foundation for Western Ethics and Culture until 2016 . In 2008 he was awarded the Friedrich A. von Hayek Medal and in 2016 the Roland Baader Award.

Nef emphasizes positions that are economically liberal and critical of the state.

He works as an author and member of the editorial board for the magazine peculiarly free .

Nef is one of the founders of the reform-critical Swiss Orthographic Conference .

For Nef's 70th birthday, a commemorative publication was published under the title Fighters for Freedom . a. with contributions by Charles B. Blankart , Christoph Blocher , Peter Forstmoser , Heidi Hanselmann , Konrad Hummler , Václav Klaus , Gerhard Schwarz , Tito Tettamanti and Erich Weede .

Publications

As an author

  • Bibliography on building, land and planning law in Switzerland, 1968–1975. Institute for Local, Regional and National Planning, Zurich 1976.
  • Robert Nef, Martin Lendi : State constitution and property system. Institute for Local Science and Environmental Protection, Linz 1981, ISBN 3-224-17898-1 .
  • Praise for non-centralism. Academia-Verlag, St. Augustin 2001, ISBN 3-89665-213-3 .
  • Basic political terms. NZZ-Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85823-956-9 .

As editor

  • Walter Hirt, Robert Nef, Richard C. Ritter: Independent: Switzerland, a special case. Verlag Moderne Industrie, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-478-30160-2 .
  • Gerhard Schwarz , Robert Nef: Neidökonomie. Economic aspects of a vice. NZZ-Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85823-859-7 .
  • Poet of freedom. A Friedrich Schiller breviary. Ott-Verlag, Thun 2006, ISBN 3-7225-0046-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Organization. Board of Trustees. Liberal Institute.
  2. ^ Biography on Robert Nef's previous website ( Memento from November 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Robert Nef receives the Hayek Medal. Liberal Institute. June 27, 2008.
  4. ↑ Roland Baader Award 2016 to Robert Nef. In: Freedom. February 19, 2016, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Welfare State. The orderly retreat. In: peculiarly free. June 21, 2010, accessed December 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Article by Robert Nef . In: peculiarly free . Archived from the original on July 18, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ Imprint. Editorial board. In: peculiarly free.
  8. ^ The founders and members. Swiss Orthographic Conference.
  9. ↑ Florian Schwab: Liberal testimony. In: Die Weltwoche . April 4, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Nef, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen