Joseph Huber (born 4 November 1948 in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

) is a retired German professor of sociology. From 1992 to 2012, he was the chair of

economic An economy is an area of the Production (economics), production, Distribution (economics), distribution and trade, as well as Consumption (economics), consumption of Goods (economics), goods and Service (economics), services. In general, it is ...

and

environmental sociology Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment. The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by whic ...

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university i ...

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. He has written influential papers on Monetary System Analysis and Sovereign Money Theory, for instance "

Seigniorage Seigniorage , also spelled seignorage or seigneurage (from the Old French ''seigneuriage'', "right of the lord (''seigneur'') to mint money"), is the difference between the value of money and the cost to produce and distribute it. The term can be ...

Reform and Plain Money". Huber is known widely also as one of the founders of ecological modernization theory.

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References

Personal University WebsitePersonal Website on Monetary System Analysis and Sovereign Money
German economists German non-fiction writers German sociologists Living people Monetary reformers Environmental sociologists 1948 births Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Writers from Mannheim German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-economist-stub