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Dr. Christian Schubert |
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Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany |
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| phone: | +49 - 3641 - 686 810 | |
| fax: | +49 - 3641 - 686 868 | |
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Curriculum Vitae
| 2009-10: | Fixed Term Professor, “Ordnungspolitik” (Constitutional Economics), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| 2003: | PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) |
| since sept. 2002: | Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena |
| 1998-2002: | Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany. |
| 1998: | Diplom-Volkswirt (M.A. in Economics). |
| 1991-1998: | Studies in Economics at the universities of Osnabrück and Lausanne (Switzerland) |
Research Interests
- Evolutionary Economics
- Behavioral Welfare Economics
- Happiness/Subjective Well-Being
Recent Working Papers
- (with Leonhard Lades) "Fighting Maritime Piracy: Three Lessons from Pompeius Magnus", Jena Economic Research Papers #2012-017, submitted.
- "Opportunity and Preference Learning", Papers on Economics & Evolution #1208, submitted
- (with Andreas Chai) "Sustainable Consumption and Consumer Sovereignty", submitted
- (with Christian Cordes) "Role Models that make you unhappy: Light Paternalism, Social Learning and Welfare", Papers on Economics & Evolution #1022, submitted
- "Darwinism in Economics and the Evolutionary Theory of Policy-Making", Papers on Economics & Evolution #0910, submitted
Publications
- "How to evaluate creative destruction: Reconstructing Schumpeter's Approach", accepted for publication (with minor revisions), Cambridge Journal of Economics.
- "Is Novelty always a good thing? Towards an Evolutionary Welfare Economics", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, forthcoming 2012, doi: 10.1007/s00191-011-0257-x
- "Pursuing Happiness", Kyklos 65, 2 (may 2012), 245-261, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2012.00537.x
- "Constitutional Interests in the Face of Innovations: How much do we need to know about Risk Preferences" Constitutional Political Economy, 19 (September 2008), 203-225. (with Ulrich Witt), doi: 10.1007/s10602-008-9044-6
- "Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of the Social Contract", Constitutional Political Economy, 18 (March 2007), 35-62. (with Christian Cordes), doi: 10.1007/s10602-006-9011-z
- "Die rechtliche Steuerung urbanen Wandels - eine konstitutionenökonomische Untersuchung". Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Einheit der Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Nr. 135), 2006.
- "Evolution and Design of Institutions". London: Routledge, 2006 (edited with Georg v. Wangenheim)
- "Evaluating Designed Institutions from an evolutionary perspective". In: Schubert, C./v.Wangenheim, G. (eds.), Evolution and Design of Institutions. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 149-179.
- "Hayek and the Evolution of Designed Institutions: A Critical Assessment." In: Backhaus, J. (ed.), Entrepreneurship, Money and Coordination - Hayek's Theory of Cultural Evolution. Cheltenham: E. Elgar, 2005, pp. 107-130.
Other Stuff
- "Politische Implikationen der Verhaltensökonomik", Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, im Erscheinen (2012).
- "Verführerische Analogien", Comment on Hans Mohr, "Evolutionäre Ethik". Erwägen Wissen Ethik 21/2 (2010), 112-115.
- Review of: Joel Waldfogel (2007), "The tyranny of the market: Why you can't always get what you want", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229(5) (2009), 668-669.
- "Wissensgehalt und Interpretation von Routinen", Comment on M.C. Becker, "Wiederkehrende Handlungsmuster, Rekonstitutivität und Heuristiken". In: Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, M. (ed.), Perspektiven des Wandels: Evolutorische Ökonomik in der Anwendung. Marburg: Metropolis (2002), pp. 489-496.
