Uwe Reinhardt

Uwe Reinhardt
Doctoral advisor	Richard Ruggles

Uwe Ernst Reinhardt (born September 24, 1937) is a professor of political economy at Princeton University and holds several positions in the healthcare industry. Reinhardt is a prominent scholar in health care economics and a frequent speaker and author on subjects ranging from the war in Iraq to the future of Medicare.

Reinhardt was born 1937 in Osnabrück, Germany, and later emigrated to Canada where he received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Saskatchewan. He later received a PhD in economics from Yale University in 1970 for thesis titled An Economic Analysis of Physicians' Practices under the supervision of Richard Ruggles. He has taught courses in economic theory and policy, accounting, and health economics and policy. Reinhardt's scholarly work has focused on economics and policy and includes more far-reaching topics such as cost-benefit analyses of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and the Space Shuttle. He currently is the professor of Economics 100 and Economics 332 at Princeton University.

In July 2015 Reinhardt's 2013 syllabus and first lecture for a class titled "Introductory Korean Drama" received attention from several bloggers. By way of explanation, Reinhardt introduced the class by stating

After the near‐collapse of the world’s financial system has shown that we economists really do not know how the world works, I am much too embarrassed to teach economics anymore, which I have done for many years. I will teach Modern Korean Drama instead.

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