Gustav Stolper (25 July 1888 – 27 December 1947) was an Austrian-German

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Life and work

Stolper was born into a Jewish family that had immigrated from

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to Austria. In 1913 he established '' Der Österreichischer Volkswirt''. In 1926 he established the ''Deutscher Volkswirt'', the forerunner of ''

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'' weekly business magazine. Stolper was elected to the Reichstag of the

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in 1930 as a member of the

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Gustav Stolper Prize

The Gustav Stolper Prize is awarded by the

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for "outstanding scientists who have employed the findings of economic research to influence the public debate on economic issues and problems, and have made important contributions to understanding and solving contemporary economic problems." Winners:

* 2007: Bruno S. Frey * 2008:

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* 2009:

Martin Hellwig Martin Friedrich Hellwig (born 5 April 1949) is a German economist. He has been the director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods since 2004, after spending his academic career as a professor at University of Bonn (1977� ...

* 2010:

Ernst Fehr Ernst Fehr (born 21 June 1956 in Hard, Austria) is an Austrian-Swiss behavioral economist and neuroeconomist and a Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research, as well as the vice chairman of the Department of Economics at the ...

* 2011:

Otmar Issing Otmar Issing (born 27 March 1936 in Würzburg) is a German economist who served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2006 and concurrently as ECB chief economist. He developed the 'two-pillar' approach to m ...

* 2012: Wolfgang Franz * 2013:

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* 2014: Carl Christian von Weizsäcker * 2015:

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* 2016: Christoph M. Schmidt * 2017:

Ludger Wößmann Ludger Wößmann (; born in Sendenhorst on July 1, 1973) is a German economist and professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). Moreover, being one of the world's foremost economics of education, education economis ...

* 2018:

Isabel Schnabel Isabel Schnabel (née Gödde, born 9 August 1971) is a German economist who has been serving as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 2020. She became professor of financial economics at the University of Bonn in 20 ...

* 2019:

Ulrike Malmendier Ulrike M. Malmendier (born 1973) is a German economist who is currently a professor of economics and finance at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on behavioral economics, corporate finance, and law and economics. In 201 ...

* 2020:

Markus Brunnermeier Markus Konrad Brunnermeier (born March 22, 1969) is an economist, who is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics at Princeton University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a faculty ...

* 2021:

Lars Feld Lars Peter Feld (born August 9, 1966 in Saarbrücken) is a German economist who currently serves as director of the Walter Eucken Institut and as Professor for Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg. From 2020 to 2021 he also chaired the G ...

* 2022: Monika Schnitzer

Family

His eldest son Wolfgang Stolper (1912-2002) was an American

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stolper, Gustav 1888 births 1947 deaths Politicians from Vienna Jewish German politicians German Democratic Party politicians German State Party politicians Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Austrian economists German economists Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States

Life and work

Gustav Stolper Prize

Family

See also

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