Prof. Dr. Hans Christoph Binswanger

Institut für Wirtschaft und Ökologie, St. Gallen

Biography: Born 1929. Studies in Zurich and Kiel. Doctorale 1956 in Zurich. 1957–1967 scientific research assistant at the Swiss Institute for Research in International Economics at the University of St. Gallen; main topics of research: environmental and resource economics, monetary theory, European integration general economic theory. 1967 habilitation. From 1969 onwards professor of economics at the University of St. Gallen. 1981–1992 executive director of the Institute of Economics. October 1992 until March 1995 director of the Institute for Economy and the Environment (IWÖ). Professor emeritus since October 1994. Prizes: Nature Conservation Prize of the BUND (Friends of the Earth–Gemnan section); 1980 Binding-Prize (Liechtenstein) for conservation; 1986, honorary senator of the Vienna University of Economies and Business Administration; 1994, Dr. Brandenberger-Prize (Switzerland) ????? Publications (selection): Markt und internationale Währungsordnung, 1969 Wege aus der Wohlstandsfalle, (with W. Geissberger and T. Ginsburg), 1978 Eigentum und Eigentumspolitik,1978 Arbeit ohne Umweltzerstörung, (with H. Fritsch and H Nutzinger),1983 Geld und Natur, 1992 Geld und Wachstum, (co-editor with P von Flotow; contributor),1994 Money and Magic; a Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe's Faust, 1994. (English translation of "Geld und Magie; Deutung und Kritik der modernen Wirtschaft anhand von Goethe's Faust", 1985) Die Glaubensgemeinschaft der Ökonomen,1998   Events with Prof. Dr. Hans Christoph Binswanger Download/s:   Goethes Faust - ein alchemistisches Drama (Audio)