Wolf Schäfer (economist)

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Wolf Schäfer (born July 14, 1941 in Hamburg ; † February 22, 2020 in Kiel ) was a German economist ; from 1981 until his retirement he was Professor of Economics at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.

Life

Wolf Schäfer studied economics from 1963 to 1968 at the University of Kiel and the Free University of Berlin . From 1968 to 1970 he was a research assistant at the Institute for the World Economy at the University of Kiel, where he studied with Erich Schneider in 1970 at the Dr. sc. pol. received his doctorate. After working as a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 17 of the DFG (Scandinavia and Baltic Sea Region Research ) and at the Institute for Theoretical Economics, he received his habilitation in 1977, venia legendi for economics. After a substitute professor at the University of Dortmund (1979 to 1980), Wolf Schäfer was appointed to the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg in 1981 . In 1984 Wolf Schäfer was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley , USA. From 2003 to 2005 he was Vice President of the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He was the founding president of the now closed private Hanseatic University .

His main research interests were the theory and politics of foreign trade and money, European integration and macroeconomics . Wolf Schäfer regularly wrote articles in online media, for example for the blog “ Die Freie Welt ”.

Schäfer was, with Renate Ohr , the initiator of the euro-critical manifesto The Monetary Policy Decisions of Maastricht: A Danger for Europe (1992) and he was a signatory of the Hamburg Appeal (2005).

Selected memberships

Selected publications

  • Wolf Schäfer, The Trade-off Between Enlarging and Deepening, Intereconomics , Review of European Economic Policy, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2007), pp. 4-10.
  • Schäfer, Wolf (Ed.), Harmonization and Cantralisation versus Subsidiarity: Which Should Apply Where? in: Intereconomics. Review of European Economic Policy, Vol. 41, No. 5, (2006), pp. 246-249.
  • Schäfer, Wolf (ed.), Economic Policy in System Competition, Writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik, NF, Vol. 309, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (2006).
  • Schäfer, Wolf, Exit Option, State and Taxes, in: ORDO, Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Vol. 56 (2005), pp. 141–155.
  • Schäfer, Wolf (ed.), Institutional Foundations of Efficient Economic Policy, Writings of the Verein für Socialpolitik, NF, Vol. 304, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (2005).
  • Wolf Schäfer: Conscription or Volunteer Army? - Conscription from an economic point of view . Guest contribution April 9, 2007 in: "Economic Freedom - Ordnungspolitischer Blog"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see page with Schäfer's contributions in www.freiewelt.net
  2. ↑ see list of signatories for the online reproduction of the manifesto in the economic blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit , blog entry from December 11, 2016; accessed July 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ see list of signatories of the “Hamburg Appeal” (PDF), website of the Hamburg World Economic Institute ; accessed July 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ hwwi.org: Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Trustees , accessed on May 24, 2011
  5. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board | Economic service. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2020
Place of death Kiel