Volker Caspari

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Volker Caspari (born September 18, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German economist . From 1995 to 2019 he was professor of economics with a specialization in economic theory at the TU Darmstadt .

Life

Volker Caspari studied economics from 1972 to 1977 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1979 to 1983 he worked there as a research assistant at the Chair of Economics with Bertram Schefold , with the focus of his work in the field of economic theory . In 1983 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD. In 1984 he was the Theodor Heuss Lecturer at New School University in New York . In Frankfurt am Main he worked as a university assistant for economics until 1991. In 1991 he completed his habilitation and, after being appointed a private lecturer and granted the license to teach economics, he was deputy professor for economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University from 1992 to 1995.

From 1995 to September 2019, Volker Caspari was Professor of Economics, specializing in economic theory, at TU Darmstadt . There he was dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics from 1999 to 2000, Director of the Economics Institute from 2003 to 2004 and Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Law and Economics from 2004 to 2006. Since October 2019 he has held a senior professorship for economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

In Darmstadt he gave lectures on microeconomics , macroeconomics , industrial economics as well as growth theory and empiricism. In addition, he was a lecturer for "History of Economic Thought" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt / Main and at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg .

Memberships and functions

In 2003 Caspari founded the Keynes Society together with other university professors .

From June 2014 to June 2018 he was chairman of the “History of Economics” committee in the Association for Social Policy of the German Economists' Association.

Positions

In a study of over 57 Bachelor programs in economics, the Network Plural Economics comes to the conclusion that only 1.3 percent of the courses are "reflexive", i.e. they concern subjects such as the history of economic thought , business ethics , philosophy of science and economic history . In an international comparison, business administration and law are too much in the foreground in Germany. Caspari said in an article in the FAZ: “First and foremost, economics courses contain [sic!] Too much business administration. If they were to be reduced, there would automatically be room for the history of theory and economic history. ”The overemphasis on business administration and law is scandalous and a“ fraudulent label ”.

Publications

Volker Caspari is the author of eight books, ten articles in refereed journals and numerous contributions to anthologies and manuals as well as reviews. He was also a participant in several specialist conferences. (As of July 2009)

His latest book is entitled Ökonomik und Wirtschaft, Springer, Berlin 2019. It deals with the development of economics from ancient Greece to the present from a co-evolutionary perspective.

as editor

with Bertram Schefold : Where is economic science heading? A method controversy in economics , series: Normative Orders, No. 3; Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-593-39383-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philip Plickert: Universities student initiative complains about one-sided economics studies . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 23, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 26, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Caspari, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, professor of economics
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main