Walter Ötsch

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Walter Ötsch (2018)

Walter Otto Ötsch (born May 21, 1950 ) is an Austrian economist and cultural scientist .

Life

After studying at the University of World Trade in Vienna and the University of Linz and completing his dissertation in 1980, he completed his habilitation in 1990 with a thesis on the Sraffa paradox . As a professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), he founded and heads the university-wide center for social and intercultural competence as well as the (research) institute for the overall analysis of the economy . The latter strives for interdisciplinary research in the sense of a multiparadigmatic economy and wants to participate in socio-politically relevant discussions.

As a co-founder of the research network Neurolinguistic Programming The International Laboratory for Mental Space Research (ILMSR), he is consulted by renowned media as an expert on demagogic political discourses. His investigation of the “ Jörg Haider phenomenon ” is a standard work on the demagoguery of recent Austrian right-wing populism .

Ötsch is a founding member of the Society for Socio-Economic Education and Science (GSÖBW) and has been professor of economics and cultural history at the Cusanus University since October 2015 .

Research and publication focus

The main areas of research are the cultural history of perception, thinking and thinking about the economy, images of economy, economy and culture, economics as cultural studies and communicative aspects of society and politics.

In Mythos Markt he tries to combine the theory of propaganda by Hayek and Lippmann with the neoclassical general equilibrium theory and to describe the broad areas of the prevailing economy as a neoliberal propaganda project.

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Web links

Commons : Walter Ötsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for the Total Analysis of the Economy
  2. ^ "Manifesto" of the Institute for the Total Analysis of the Economy , accessed on March 19, 2010.
  3. ^ The International Laboratory for Mental Space Research , accessed on January 19, 2016.
  4. Board of Directors | Society for Socio-Economic Education and Science. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .