Albrecht Ritschl (economist)

Albrecht Ritschl (* 1959 in Munich) is a German economic historian.

Life

Ritschl doctorate at Knut Borchardt at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich. From 1994 to 2007 he held professorships at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, ​​the University of Zurich and the Humboldt University of Berlin, before he was appointed to the London School of Economics and Political Science 2007.

Theses

Ritschl made ​​several Reinterpretationsversuche recent German economic history. His research interests include:

  • The economic collapse of the Weimar Republic. Ritschl argued that Germany was 1929/30, come into a balance of payments crisis caused by excessive debt abroad and the tightening of the Reparationsregimes by the Young Plan. In this situation, the deflationary policy Heinrich Brüning was no alternative.
  • The employment policy of the Third Reich. Ritschl argued that the recovery following the global economic crisis have already been used in 1932 and was therefore not attributable to the economic policies of the Nazi era. The rapid return to full employment was a result of the low-wage policy Bruning, who had continued the Third Reich seamlessly. The construction of motorways, however, have begun a large scale until 1936, when Germany had practically back to full employment already found.
  • The economic system of the Federal Republic after the Second World War. Ritschl denies the social market economy was an invention of Ludwig Erhard. Major liberal issues such as anti-trust legislation had come under pressure from the Allies, especially the United States concluded. Other corporatist elements, however, such as Restrictions on the freedom of trade, have already introduced Hjalmar Schacht in the 1930s.
  • Economic cycles in the Empire. With the methods of empirical economic research Ritschl confirmed the existence of a sharp recession in the 1870s - the so-called founder crisis - which had been made ​​available by other economic historians deny.

Writings

  • Prices and Production. Elements of a System - Theoretic Perspective. Physica -Verlag, Heidelberg, 1989, ISBN 3-7908-0429-0
  • Germany's economic crisis and 1924-1934. Domestic economy, foreign debt and reparations between Dawes Plan and transfer ban. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003650-8
  • Albrecht Ritschl (ed.): Prussia in the German Empire. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003699-0
  • Has the Third Reich really a proper employment policy operated? In: New results on NS - boom. Yearbook of Economic History. 2003 / I, ISBN 3050038608 (PDF)
  • Albrecht Ritschl, Thomas Welskopp & Katja Girschik (ed.): The Migros - Kosmos: the history of an exceptional Swiss company. Here and now, Baden 2003, ISBN 3-906419-64-9
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