Heiner Flassbeck
| Heiner Flassbeck | |
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| Born |
12 December 1950 Birkenfeld, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Institution |
Saarland University 1971–76 German Council of Economic Experts Assistants Staff 1977–80 German Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology 1980–85 Free University of Berlin 1981–87 German Institute for Economic Research 1986–98 Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany) 1998–99 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2000–13 |
| Field | Economics, Macroeconomics, Monetary economics, International economics, Economic policy |
| School or tradition |
Keynesian economics |
| Influences | John Meynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Wolfgang Stützel |
| Contributions | Trade theory, Foreign trade theory, Economic crisis, Monetary system, Monetary policy, Wage policy |
| Awards | Honorary Professor Hamburg University |
Saarland University 1971–76
German Council of Economic Experts Assistants Staff 1977–80
German Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology 1980–85
Free University of Berlin 1981–87
German Institute for Economic Research 1986–98
Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany) 1998–99
Heiner Flassbeck (born 12 December 1950) is a German economist and public intellectual. From 1998 to 1999 he was a State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Finance (German: Bundesministerium der Finanzen) where he also advised former finance minister Oskar Lafontaine on a reform of the European Monetary System. He became the Chief of Macroeconomics and Development of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva in January 2003, a position that he held until resigning at the end of 2012 due to his age.
Heiner Flassbeck studied economics at Saarland University (1971–1976). During that time he was assistant at chair of Wolfgang Stützel with emphasis on currency issues. Afterwards, up to 1980 he worked in the assistants staff of the German Council of Economic Experts. 1987 he received a doctors degree Dr. rer. pol. at the Free University of Berlin with his work: Prices, Interest and Currency Rate. On Theory of Open Economy at flexible Exchange Rates (German: Preise, Zins und Wechselkurs. Zur Theorie der offenen Volkswirtschaft bei flexiblen Wechselkursen).
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