Axel Troost
thumbnail, Troost in 2014 Axel Troost (1 September 1954 – 6 January 2023) was a German economist and politician. He was a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2017 and a brief period in 2021. From 2012, he was one of the four Vice Chairmen of his party (Die Linke). Life Education and career Born in Hagen, Troost obtained Abitur at Schule Schloss Salem in 1973, and studied economics at Philipps-Universität Marburg, where he obtained a doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) in 1982 with a thesis on the subject of national debt and credit institutes – public borrowing in the context of the overall lending and service operations of commercial banks. Troost was head of the Working Group on Alternative Economic Policy (Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik) since 1981 and managing director of the Progress Institute for Economic Research (PIW GmbH) in Bremen and Teltow since 1984. He also worked as managing director of the Office for Structural Research Rostock (BÜSTRO) in Rostock from ...
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