Thomas Fricke
Thomas Fricke (* 1965 ) is a German business journalist. He has been Chief Economist of the European Climate Foundation since December 2013 and heads the Wirtschaftswunder Internet portal . From 2002 to the end of 2012 he was chief economist at the Financial Times Deutschland , for which he has worked since it started in 1999. During this time he wrote his column on Fridays on economic policy, economic and macroeconomic topics and was responsible for the daily global economy page. He also coined the newspaper's macroeconomic editorials. From 2009 on, he was also chief economist for Gruner & Jahr's business media (FTD, Capital, Börse Online, Impulse).
Fricke studied political science and economics in Aachen and Paris, at the Université Paris I and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He then worked as an economic expert at the Paris economic research institute Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques. He then worked as an editor and columnist for the Berliner Tagesspiegel, WirtschaftsWoche and Manager Magazin.
In March 2013 his book How Much Bank Does Man Need? , in which Fricke takes stock of three decades of financial globalization and calls for a return to a banking system that is more similar to that of the successful and more stable 1950s and 1960s. A short version appeared in the publication Wirtschaftsdienst .
Fricke regularly gives lectures and publishes articles on economic policy topics in newspapers and magazines as well as on the radio. He also trains junior and other people in business cycle analysis and forecasting. Since 2002 he has been responsible for the annual economic forecast of the year evaluation, which first appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2013. For years, a focus of his work has also been on commenting on the German Agenda 2010 as well as the euro crisis and the international financial crisis. Fricke writes as a columnist on Spiegel Online .
Works
- How much bank do people need? Get out of the crazy financial world , Westend Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-86489-036-9
Awards
- 1998: German-French journalism award, print media, 1st prize for Ohne Komma in Manager Magazin [2]
- 2012: Keynes Society Award for Economic Journalism
Web links
- Facebook: biography
- WirtschaftsWunder - Internet portal by Thomas Fricke
- Fricke at Westendverlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Economic Service
- ↑ Spiegel.de: SPON - The bill, please!
- ^ Prices of the Keynes Society , accessed March 25, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fricke, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |