Ewald Bosse

Ewald Theodore Alfred bosses ( born September 18, 1880 in Stockholm, † September 22, 1956 in Voksenkollen in Oslo) was a Norwegian economist and sociologist. He tried to establish a human- and social science-based " labor theory ", which focused on a rational application of living labor force from 1927.

Life

Ewald Bosse, son of publishing bookseller Johan Bosse (1836-1896) and his wife Anne -Marie Lehmann (1834-1894) graduated in 1902 with a degree in law at the University of Oslo with the state exam. In 1903 he married Margit Heltberg ( 1884-19? ) And then studied economics, sociology and philosophy in London, Paris and Kiel ( Institute for the World Economy ), where he received his doctorate in 1914.

He was there 1920-1926 ( Honorary ) Professor of Scandinavian economic life. Under the influence of Ferdinand Tonnies, he turned then amplified in sociology, especially the sociology of work to. Back in Oslo, founded and directed bosses from 1938, the Institutt for Samfunnsforsking above Arbeidslære (Institute for Social Research and Industrial Engineering ), which is also the emigrated Germans Ernst Hugo Fischer and Heinz mouse a shelter offered. After the German invasion of Norway in 1940, he closed it.

Work

Ewald Bosses main work consists of the three 1927-1939 published ( in Norwegian) volumes " Arbeidslæren " [Work Teaching] with the time-related topics: economy (genetic analysis of economic work, 1927), law ( Labor, 1933) and poverty (as social phenomenon, 1939). Here he developed in connection with its option for a co-operative and social democratic path of development for the non- regulatory ( neodestributiv - Keynesian or corporate - fascist ) overcome the world economic crisis of the capitalist economy different typologies and taxonomies a "third way " beyond capitalist profit and bureaucratic command economy to realization of a social organization of the greatest happiness of as many people. With genetic ( - analytical ) focus in the first volume, theoretically ( - social science ) em in the second and practical ( and politically ) em in the third bosses, among other things ( a) presents five forms of work ( " servistische ", " dependente ", " societäre " " famulatorische " and " parasitic "); ( b) two forms of unemployment ( " objective- structural " and " subjective- personal ") and ( c) four causes of poverty ( social-structural, economic, political and biological ).

Reception

Ferdinand Tönnies made ​​in 1935 in Max Horkheimer's Paris Journal for Social Research ( to his displeasure ) the importance Bosses attention. In Germany and then during the German occupation of Norway 1940-45 Ewald Bosses reception was sustained canceled. His ideas for the development of a social and interdisciplinary science, however, was discussed in 1988 by Irene Raehlmann in their Bonner sociology of science dissertation and rated as " almost utopian [ ... ] socio-political ideas ."