Gerold Blümle (born 1937) is a

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. Blümle was born on 30 January 1937 in

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and, from 1972 to 2002, was the Professor of Mathematical Economics at the

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and a leading German exponent of the theory of

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and

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theory. He is the brother of the very well known Ernst-Bernd Blümle. In his research, he combines economic history and theory history. He argues that political economics as such should serve life; theoretical and historical thinking should be linked. During his studies, which he spent in Freiburg im Breisgau and in

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, among other places, he joined the Catholic

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s, K.St.V. Germania-Hohentwiel and K.St.V. Carolingia-Friborg, in the Kartellverband. Gerold Blümle developed a

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as a predator-prey relationship. In this model, there is a cyclical relationship between the investment ratio and the spread or

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of the profits, which is represented by Lotka-Volterra equations. From 1985 to 1990 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. For many years, Blümle has also researched, lectured, taught and written on the subject of

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's national game of

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.''Das badische Nationalspiel Cego''
at swv-schopfheim.de. Retrieved 30 May 2020.Kosturkova, Nadya and Jörg Rieger (2018). "Prof. Dr. Gerold Blümle" in ''Ordnungspolitisch stets auf Kurs''.
Munich: Franz Vahlen.

Works

* ''Theorie der Einkommensverteilung.'' 1975. * ''Fortschritt und Schöpfungsglaube oder Die Machbarkeit des Glücks.'' 1984. * ''Wirtschaftsgeschichte und ökonomisches Denken, Ausgewählte Aufsätze.'' 2008. * ''Das badische Nationalspiel Cego'', 2018.

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Article in the ''Süddeutschen Zeitung'' dated 30 March 2005
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