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Bruno S. Frey


Bruno S. Frey (born May 4, 1941 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss economist and permanent visiting professor for Political Economy at the University of Basel. Before, he taught at the University of Zürich and the Warwick Business School (UK). Bruno S. Frey is considered a pioneer in the fields 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, Culture, and Theology. In 2011, Frey was criticised for and admitted to self-plagiarism. According to a RePEc ranking (as of May 2017), Frey is ranked 10th among all registered European economists.

Frey studied economics at the University of Basel and at the University of Cambridge, obtaining a doctorate in economics in 1965. In 1969 he was appointed associate professor of economics at the University of Basel. From 1970 to 2010, he was associate professor at the University of Basel. From 1970 to 1977, he was a full professor of public finance at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Frey was appointed as a full professor of economics at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics (IEW) of the University of Zurich (UZH) in 1977.


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