Stephan Bauer (political economist)

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Stephan Bauer (born May 20, 1865 in Vienna , † November 15, 1934 in Basel ) was a Swiss economist , professor and professor of economics at the University of Basel .

Life

Stephan Bauer was the son of the Austrian wholesale merchant Karl Bauer and his wife Frederike, née Popper. From 1883 to 1889 he studied political science at the University of Vienna . He finished his studies as Dr. jur. During a stay in Paris in 1889 and 1890, he discovered the original Tableau économique by Francois Quesnay . In 1890 he was in London . From 1892 to 1899, Bauer was the secretary of the Brno Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a statistical consultant. In 1893 he became a private lecturer at the Brno University of Technology . In 1899 he received a teaching position in Chicago and in the same year became an associate professor for economics at the University of Basel, from 1921 he was a full-time professor. From 1913 Robert Michels was professor of economics at his chair until 1929. In 1919 the hitherto Austrian citizen Bauer became a Swiss citizen. He remained single and died in Basel in 1934.

Political and journalistic activity

In 1893 he founded the magazine for social and economic history together with Carl Grünberg , Ludo Moritz Hartmann and Emil Szanto . From 1900 to 1925, Bauer was general secretary of the “ International Association for Statutory Workers Protection”, which wanted to enforce greater protection for industrial workers using scientific and journalistic means. From 1901 to 1919 he was the director of the "International Labor Office" in Basel, which was operated by the "International Association". Bauer was the editor of the Bulletin of the International Labor Office . The “International Labor Office” merged with the International Labor Organization ( ILO) in the course of the establishment of the League of Nations , of which Stephan Bauer was one of the founders. In 1903, together with Ludo Moritz Hartmann and Georg von Below, he founded the quarterly journal for social and economic history (VSWG), which was published by the Leipzig publisher CL Hirschfeld and which still exists today.

In the period immediately before the First World War, Bauer was a leader in the field of social policy. After the First World War he co-founded the International Labor Organization (ILO). After the International Labor Office was continued as an official part of the League of Nations from 1919, he was scientific director there. The two chairs for economics at the University of Basel benefited from the existence of the “International Labor Office”, which meant that Bauer had a decisive influence on the development of economics in Basel, but also on the emergence of sociology in Switzerland. Bauer was a corresponding member of the Royal Economic Society . The journals he founded became major German-language publications on social history.

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SURNAME Bauer, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1934
Place of death Basel