Roland Vaubel

Roland Vaubel (born January 5, 1948 in Obernburg am Main ) is a German economist . From 1984 to 2016 he taught economics and political economy at the University of Mannheim .

Life

Vaubel attended school in Wuppertal . He then studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at St Peter's College at the University of Oxford ( Bachelor of Arts , 1970). His teachers at Oxford included u. a. Sir Alec Cairncross . In 1972 he earned a Master of Arts in Economics from Columbia University in New York .

From 1973 to 1978 and from 1981 to 1984 he was a research assistant at the Institute for the World Economy at the University of Kiel (ifW). He was at the University of Kiel in 1977 when Herbert Giersch in the Department of Economics and Social Sciences with the thesis Strategies for currency unification: the economics of currency competition and the case for a European parallel currency to Dr. sc. pol. doctorate and in 1980 he completed his habilitation with the thesis International coordination versus competition of national stabilization policies . From 1979 to 1981 he was first associate professor and then full professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and finally visiting professor at the University of Chicago . In 1984 he received a call from the University of Mannheim , where he taught economics and political economy until his retirement in 2016 .

Vaubel was one of the signatories of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992) and the Hamburg Appeal (2005). He was one of the 68 main illustrators of the 2013 election alternative . Vaubel was temporarily a member of the CDU, the FDP and the AfD as well as the AfD's scientific advisory board. Vaubel resigned his offices within the AfD in July 2015 and joined the Alliance for Progress and Awakening (today Liberal-Conservative Reformer ).

In May 2018, together with Dirk Meyer , Thomas Mayer and Gunther Schnabl , he initiated the appeal The euro must not lead to the liability union! This was supported by over a hundred economists.

Focus

Vaubel's work focuses on international monetary policy , the political economy of central banks and international organizations, and the theory of science .

Memberships

• Scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
• Associate Editor of the Review of International Organizations
• Editorial board of the European Journal of Political Economy , Constitutional Political Economy , European Journal of Law and Economics and Cato Journal
• Member of the "European Monetary Unity" study group of the European Commission (1974–1976)
• Board of Directors of the Mont Pelerin Society (1980–1986; 1994–2000)
• Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs , London
• Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute , USA (1980–1990)
• Academic Advisory Board, Liberal Institute , Zurich
• Member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society

Fonts (selection)

• Strategies for currency unification. the economics of currency competition and the case for a European parallel currency (= Kieler Studien . 156). Mohr, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-16-340571-1 .
• International agreements or competition in economic policy? (= Lectures and essays . 77) Mohr, Tübingen 1980, ISBN 3-16-343011-2 .
• Social policy for responsible citizens. Options for reform. Study (= studies on social development . Volume 5). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2068-0 .
• Europe chauvinism. The arrogance of the institutions . Universitas, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-8004-1424-4 .

literature

• Charles Rowley, Friedrich Schneider (Eds.): The Encyclopedia of Public Choice . Kluwer, New York 2004, ISBN 0-7923-8607-8 , pp. 412-413.

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Vaubel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Roland Vaubel  in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Roland Vaubel" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Short biography and reviews of works by Roland Vaubel at perlentaucher.de
• Roland Vaubel at the University of Mannheim

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Roland Vaubel: Choice in European monetary union . 1979, p. 10.
2. ↑ Curriculum vitae on uni-mannheim.de ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
4. ↑ see list of signatories of the “Hamburg Appeal” (PDF), website of the Hamburg World Economic Institute ; accessed July 13, 2020.
5. ↑ Choose the alternative! Founder and main draftsman. 2013 election alternative, archived from the original on February 13, 2013 ; accessed on March 16, 2017 . 
6. ^ Roland Vaubel: Counter Statements . Website of the University of Mannheim, October 1, 2015, accessed on February 1, 2016 (pdf; 80 kB).
7. ↑ Economists call: Europe must not lead into liability union. In: faz.net . May 21, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Members of the Scientific Advisory Board ; ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 21, 2013.