Horst Siebert

Horst Siebert ( born March 20, 1938 in Neuwied; † 2 June 2009 in Switzerland ) was a German economist and university professor.

Life

After studying economics at Cologne University and Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1965 he received his PhD at the University of Münster. After a stay at Texas A & M University, he completed his habilitation in 1969 from the Law and Political Sciences of the University of Münster in economics.

In 1969 he was appointed to the Chair of Economics and Foreign Trade, University of Mannheim. In 1984 he moved to the Chair of International Economic Relations at the University of Konstanz. From 1989 until his retirement in 2003 he was professor of theoretical economics at the University of Kiel. He has held visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Robert Schumann Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. 1990/91 he was the Chair " Vereniging voor Economie " the Flemish universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven at the University of Ghent. After his retirement in Germany until his death he was " Heinz Nixdorf Professor in European Integration and Economic Policy" at the Bologna Center of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

He also was a member of various policy committees at the federal German, European and international level. He was, for example, from 1990 to 2003 one of the five so-called economic experts. From 1989 to 2003 he was president of the Institute for World Economics at the University of Kiel.

Since 1996, Siebert was involved in the drafting of the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum. This published annual publication contains an international comparison of competitiveness of economies. Since 1999 he was a member of the Aspen Institute Italy. He received several prizes and awards, most recently awarded by the Friedrich- August-von - Hayek -Stiftung Hayek Prize.

Siebert died in 2009 after a short illness at the age of 71 years in a Swiss hospital.

Participation in economic policy bodies

Honors and Awards

Writings

  • The produced chaos: economics and the environment. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3- 17-001580 -X.
  • Instruments of environmental policy. Information requirements, conditions for success, impact analysis. Schwartz, Göttingen 1976, ISBN 3-509-00860- X.
  • Economic Theory of the Environment. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-16-341001-4.
  • Economic theory of natural resources. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-16-344548-9.
  • The wasted environment: is the Third World before the ecological bankruptcy? Fischer, Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-596-24128-6.
  • The Risk of unit: an economic policy therapy. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-421-06628-0.
  • If the Germans out of work? Way to more jobs. Bertelsmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-570-12146-1.
  • World economy. UTB, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8252-8148-5.
  • Unemployed without end? Strategies for employment. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-409-19319-7.
  • For paradigm of locational competition. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-16-147384-1.
  • The Cobra Effect: how to avoid wrong turns of economic policy. German publishing house, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-05562-9.
  • Beyond the social market: a necessary reorientation of German politics. German publishing house, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05848-2.
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