Otto Steiger (12 December 1938 – 17 January 2008) was a German
economist
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and
professor
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at the
University of Bremen
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.
Biography
Steiger was born on 12 December 1938 in
Dresden
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,
Germany
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. He spent his childhood on his parents' farming estate in Döschütz (a locality of
Großweitzschen since 1994),
office captaincy of Döbeln, Saxony, which was expropriated immediately after the war. In
Göttingen
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General information
The ori ...
he attended the from 1949 to 1958 and studied economics and economic history at the
Free University of Berlin
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and at the
University of Uppsala
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The university rose to significance during ...
from 1958 to 1964. In 1973 he became professor of general economic theory with a focus on monetary theory and macroeconomics at the
University of Bremen
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.
Between 1989 and 1992 Steiger has been invited four times as qualified person by the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to nominate candidates for the
.
In 2006, he was awarded the ''
K. William Kapp Prize'' by the Kapp Foundation and the
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
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.
He died on 17 January 2008.
Writings
*''Ownership Economics: On the Foundations of Interest, Money, Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Development'',
Routledge
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, with
Gunnar Heinsohn
Gunnar Heinsohn is a German author, sociologist and economist and professor emeritus at the University of Bremen. In 1984 he received a ''Lehrstuhl'', a tenured chair in social pedagogy at the University of Bremen.
Heinsohn has published on a wid ...
, 2013.
*''Marx and Keynes: Private Property and Money'', 1997, with Gunnar Heinsohn
*''The Property Foundation of Franchising'', 2006.
*''Sweden: An Up-to-date Travel Guide'', 1999, with Gerhard Lemmer, Birgit Krämer.
*''Einen Dieb Fangen'', 1995.
See also
*
Property premium
References
External links
At Dictionary of economics
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1938 births
2008 deaths
20th-century German economists
21st-century German economists
University of Bremen faculty
University of Latvia faculty
Rutgers University faculty
University of Trieste faculty
Free University of Berlin alumni
Uppsala University alumni
German male writers