Werner Vontobel

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Werner Vontobel (born April 28, 1946 ) is a Swiss economist , journalist and publicist .

Life

Werner Vontobel studied economics at the University of Basel . He was a correspondent for various newspapers, e. B. the Weltwoche or the Tages-Anzeiger , in Brussels and Bonn. He was a member of the editor-in-chief of the Swiss business magazine Cash . He has been the business editor at SonntagsBlick since summer 2003 and also writes regularly for Blick am Abend .

Vontobel deals with fundamental questions of economic policy and theory and has published several books on this topic. Vontobel states that he is writing for "people who - like me - do not want to understand why an efficient economy like ours does so little to make our lives friendlier."

In 1996 he published together with Hanspeter Guggenbühl and Urs P. Gasche Das Geschwätz von der Free Marktwirtschaft in which he tries to uncover the contradictions of the market preachers with their actions. In 1998, Vontobel launched the essay The Wealth Machine. The disaster of neoliberalism commanded a plea for classical political liberalism against neoliberal betrayal of the market economy .

Honor

2001 «Goldene Brille» - media prize of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) for the work «Economy without Blinders» , a series of articles published in Cash, which was unanimously chosen by the jury .

Publications (selection)

  • The chatter about the free market economy. How companies distort competition, exploit nature and ask taxpayers to pay for it (with Hanspeter Guggenbühl and Urs P. Gasche ). Zurich, Rio, 1996 (3rd edition 1997), ISBN 3-907768-15-9 .
  • The prosperity machine. The disaster of neoliberalism , Baden-Baden / Zurich, Elster Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-89151-268-6 .
  • This is how the economy works: classic questions and new answers , Vienna / Frankfurt a. Main, Ueberreuter, 2000, ISBN 3-7064-0702-7 .
  • The madness of the reforms. Why more competition and less state do not lead to prosperity (with Philipp Löpfe ). Zurich, Orell Füssli, 2005, ISBN 3-280-05133-9 . contents
  • Work frenzy. Why it's not worth it to rush off and chase each other's jobs (with Philipp Löpfe), Frankfurt a. Main / New York, Campus, 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38566-2 .
  • Rogue state of Switzerland? Tax evasion: How the world's largest banking state corrupts itself and destabilizes other countries (with Victor Parma), Munich, C. Bertelsmann, 2009, ISBN 357001083X .
  • Uproar in paradise. The new immigration divides Switzerland (with Philipp Löpfe), Zurich, Orell Füssli, 2011, ISBN 978-3-280-05406-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article by Werner Vontobel on blick.ch
  2. ↑ Our columnists: Werner Vontobel introduces himself. In: look online. April 8, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Vontobel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1946