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curriculum vitae
Full Professor of Economics, University of Graz, and Director of the Graz Schumpeter Centre (GSC)
Birth: March 29, 1946, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany
Citizenship: German and Austrian
Marital status: married; two children
Address: Department of Economics, University of Graz, RESOWI-Zentrum F4,
A-8010 Graz, Austria (Europe)
Tel.: 0043-316-380 3444 (3440)
Fax: 0043-316-380 9520
E-mail: heinz.kurz@uni-graz.at
Education
Staatliches Landschulheim Marquartstein; exchange pupil at Eton College
Diploma in Economics, University of Munich (1971)
Ph.D University of Kiel (1975)
Academic Appointments
Professor of Economics, University of Graz, March 1988-present
Director of the Graz Schumpeter Centre, since 2006
Professor of Economics, University of Bremen, August 1979-February 1988
Dean of the Faculty, University of Bremen, 1981-82 and 1983-85
Associate Professor of Economics (German equivalent), University of Kiel, July 1975-July 1979
Assistant Professor of Economics (German equivalent), University of Kiel, November 1971-June 1975
Theodor Heuss Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research, New York, academic year 1990-91.
Visiting professorships (selection)
University of Rome I, “La Sapienza”, September 1982-April 1983
The Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research, New York, Spring semester 1985
Manchester University, March 1986
University of Paris X at Nanterre, May 1990
UNAM, Mexico City, September 1995
ENS de Fontenay-St Cloud, Paris, April 1996
De Montfort University, Leicester, recurrent
University of Nice, July 1996
University of Rome III, February 1997
University of Brasilia, March-April 1997
University of Pisa, March 1999
University of Paris Sorbonne-Panthéon, April-May 1999
University of Pisa, May 2000
University of Rome III, October 2001
University of Paris II, October 2004
Korea University, Seoul, October 2005
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, November 2006
Gunma University, Gunma, Japan, March 2007
I have a substantial teaching experience in English and in Italian and some in French.
Awards and Honors (selection)
Academic Price of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 1976
British Academy Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, academic year 1977-78
Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the Theodor Heuss Chair, 1988-1991
Member of the Organizing Committees of several summer schools, conferences, workshops and seminars, including the 1995 Tunis Conference of the International Economic Association
Chairman of the Graz Schumpeter Society, 1993-2000
Member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, 1996-1998
Secretary General of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, 1999-2000
Main Research Prize of Styria, 2000
Main Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Historico-philosophical class ("Wilhelm-Hartel-Preis"), 2002
Chairman of the History of Economic Analysis section of the Verein für Socialpolitik, 2006-2008
President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, 2006-2008
I was involved in several Research Assessment Exercises, evaluating, e.g., the Department of Economics of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and several departments of economics of Italian universities.
Recent and forthcoming publications (see separate list)
I have published numerous papers in journals, including Australian Economic Papers, Bulletin of Economic Research, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economica, Economic Systems Research, Économies et Sociétés, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, European Journal of Political Economy, History of Political Economy, Ifo-Studien, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jahrbuch für Sozialwissenschaft, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Kyklos, Manchester School, Metroeconomica, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Political Economy, Révue d'économie politique, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Studi economici.
I have published several books with major foreign publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Basil Blackwell, Polity Press, Routledge and Edward Elgar.
What I consider to be my main book (together with Neri Salvadori), Theory of Production. A Long-period Analysis, was published in 1995 by Cambridge University Press. In 1997 followed a revised paperback edition. In 2004 a Russian translation of the book was published (Moscow: Finansi i statistica). At present a Chinese translation is in preparation which is supposed to appear in 2007 (Beijing: China Economic Publishing House).
Several other papers and books of mine have been translated into foreign languages (including Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese). My essay Joseph A. Schumpeter. Ein Sozialökonom zwischen Marx und Walras (Marburg 2005: Metropolis Verlag) has been translated into Serbian (Belgrade 2006). A translation into Japanese will come out in 2008.
Editorships
Managing Editor of Metroeconomica (Oxford: Basil Blackwell), since 1998
Co-founder and Managing Editor of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (London: Routledge) since its foundation in 1993 (since 2005 the journal is covered by SSCI)
General Editor of the unpublished papers and correspondence of Piero Sraffa, a task carried out on behalf of Cambridge University Press and Trinity College, Cambridge (three vols with around 2.000 pp.).
I am a member of the editorial boards of several other journals, including journals published in the UK, the US, Mexico and Spain.
Refereeing
I have refereed for several publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Edward Elgar, Clarendon, Basil Blackwell, Thoemmes Press, Pickering and Chatto, Springer Verlag.
I have been refereeing for many journals, including Australian Economic Papers, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economica, Economic Journal, Economic Systems Research, European Journal of Political Economy, European Economic Review, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Journal of Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Manchester School, Metroeconomica, Review of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv.
Papers at conferences and workshops
I have presented many papers to conferences, workshops and seminars at many different universities in numerous countries, including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., New York (NYU), Stanford, Tulsa, Denver, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bonn, Berlin, Vienna, Linz, Paris I, II and X, Groningen, Rotterdam, Cambridge (U.K.), Leicester, Rome I and III, Mexico City, Bergamo, Pisa, Catania, Siena, University College London, Nice, Manchester, Milan, Lisbon, New Delhi, Brasilia, Munich, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador de Bahia, Montreal, Tunis, Rome – Italian Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Trieste, Padova, Macerata, Pavia, Lyon, Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Seoul, Beijing, Yangling, Xi'an.
I gave the Economic Issues Lecture at the 1997 Royal Economic Society conference and keynote lectures on several occasions.
Organization of conferences, workshops and seminars (since 2000)
Annual conference of The European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Graz,
2000
Conference on “Jean Baptiste Say”, Lyon, 2000
Conference on “Old and New Growth Theories: An Assessment”, Pisa, Italy, 2001
Annual conference of the historians of economic theory of Verein für Socialpolitik, Obermayerhofen, Austria, 2002
Symposium on the work of Josef Steindl, organized together with A. Guger (WIFO) in
Vienna, 2003
Computation, Constructivity and Complexity in Economic Theory, Workshop organized together with K. Velupillai, Trento, Italy, 2004
Conference on “Economic Growth and Distribution: On the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, Lucca, Italy, 2004 (in cooperation with the Journal of Economic Growth, Metroeconomica and The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought)
Conference on “Services in Economic Theory”, Rome University “La Sapienza”, 2005
Annual conference of the historians of economic theory of Verein für Socialpolitik, Graz, 2006
International Symposium on “Wittgenstein and Sraffa”, Graz, 2006
Annual conference of ESHET on “Justice in Economic Thought”, Strasbourg, 2007
The proceedings of the conferences have been published or are about to be published (see also the list of publications).
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