Economic Growth and Welfare



Wednesday, 15. October 2008 | 14:00 Uhr

Speaker

Hansjörg Siegenthaler

Organisation

University of Zurich

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Hansjörg Siegenthaler

Doctorate in 1963, l964/66 Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University, 1968 habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zurich, 1969/70 Visiting Professor at the University of Münster/Westfalen, 1970 until 1998 Professor for general Modern Economic History and special areas of Economics at the University of Zurich, 1998/99 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Research area: Relations between economic development and socio-cultural changes. See Siegenthaler, Hansjörg: Regelvertrauen, Prosperität und Krisen. Die Ungleichmässigkeit wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Entwicklung als Ergebnis individuellen Handelns und sozialen Lernens, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1993.

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