Rudolf Richter (economist)

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Rudolf Richter (born September 28, 1926 in Berlin ) is emeritus professor of economics at Saarland University .

Richter studied from 1946 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and graduated in 1949 with a degree in business administration. With a paper on the "Distribution of net investments in the consumer goods and production equipment industry" he received his doctorate in 1951 in Frankfurt. rer. pole. In 1953 he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt am Main . His habilitation thesis dealt with the "competition problem in the oligopoly" . As a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation (1954) he then took up studies at the University of Michigan , the National Bureau of Economic Research , Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

From 1951 to 1953 Richter was a research assistant to Professor Heinz Sauermann , after which he worked as a private lecturer in Frankfurt until 1959. There he then taught as an adjunct professor of economics until he accepted a position at Kiel University in 1961. In 1964 he moved to Saarland University , where, despite several appointments from prestigious universities, he was a full professor of economics, especially economic theory, until his retirement in 1994.

From 1978 to 1999, Judge editor of the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics) and since 1999 he is consulting editor. Together with Eirik Furubotn he wrote the standard work “New Institutional Economics. An introduction and critical appraisal ” ( Mohr Siebeck Verlag ). In the early 1980s he initiated the annual Wallerfangen Conference , an international conference on new institutional economics . He has also established close contacts between Saarland University and the University of Michigan. In recognition of his contributions to macroeconomics, monetary theory and institutional economics Richter 1992 from the University of Mannheim , the honorary doctorate awarded. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Richter was presented with the publication "Institutions in Perspective".

Richter is married and has two children.

He was co-signer of the Euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992) and the Hamburg Appeal (2005).

Publications (selection)

  • Studying and teaching economics: West Germany after 1945 Experiences and thoughts of a former professor of economics . Mohr Siebeck , 2018, ISBN 978-3161556678 .
  • New Institutional Economics. An introduction and critical appreciation (together with Eirik Furubotn ). Mohr Siebeck , 4th edition 2010, ISBN 978-3161505850 .
  • German monetary policy 1948-1998 . Mohr Siebeck ( UTB ), Tübingen 1999. ISBN 3825220982
  • Monetary theory . Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York etc. 1990. ISBN 3540517502 .
  • Institutions analyzed economically. To recent developments in a field of economic theory . Mohr Siebeck (UTB), Tübingen 1994. ISBN 3825217868 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ see list of signatories of the “Hamburg Appeal” (PDF), website of the Hamburg World Economic Institute ; accessed July 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ 1st edition 1998, ISBN 978-3161465017 . 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 3161480600
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, emeritus professor of economics
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin