Bruno Frey

Bruno S. Frey (born May 4, 1941 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss economist and permanent visiting professor for Political Economy at University of Basel. Before, he taught for many decades at University of Zürich and the Business School of the University of Warwick (UK). Bruno S. Frey is considered as a Pioneer in the field of Political Economy and Happiness Economics. Frey has written, co-written or edited more than a dozen books and has written more than 350 journal articles. Frey published not only in scholarly journals in Economics, but also in journals in Political Science, Management, Psychology, Sociology, Law, History, Arts and Culture, and even Theology. In 2011, Frey was criticised for and admitted to self-plagiarism. According to the RePEc ranking (Research Papers in Economics) of August 2014, Frey is ranked 7th among 21,715 European economists. In the ranking of "the most influential economists in Switzerland" produced by the leading Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung in September 2014, which considers scientific performance and public perception in media and politics, Frey ranks on third place. Frey is ranked number 5 among German economists according to the F.A.Z.-Ranking of September 5, 2015.

Bruno Frey's main focus lies on the application of economics to new areas (politics, art, history, terrorism and war, family) and the extension of the model of human behavior to incorporate psychological and sociological elements. He has been among the first economists to deal with: a) empirical models about the relation between the economy and politics, especially politico-economic cycles; b) new concepts of federalism (Functional, Overlapping, Competing Jurisdictions, FOCJ); c) crowding-out and intrinsic motivation; d) orders and awards.

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