Eckhard Hein
Co-Director of the IPE (since 2015)
Dr. rer. pol. habil, Professor of Economics, in particular European Economic Policies, at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) since 2009. Previously, Senior Researcher at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK), Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf, Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and Adj. Professor at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Eckhard Hein is a member of the coordinating committee of the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), a co-editor of the ‘Series of the FMM’ (Metropolis Publisher), a managing co-editor of the ‘European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention’, and a Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute and at the Centre d'Économie Paris-Nord (CEPN). Since 2015 he has been the Academic Director of the Master International Economics of the HWR and the local coordinator of the EPoG Master programmes (Erasmus Mundus Master Economic Policies in the Age of Globalisation (EPoG1) until 2018, International Master Economic Policies in the Age of Globalisation (EPoG2) since 2018, and Erasmus Mundus Master Economic Policies for the Globlal Transation (EPoG+) since 2020).
Research Interests
- Financial system and the macroeconomy
- European economic policies and macroeconomic policy regimes
- Distribution and growth
- Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
Selected Publications
- Money, Distribution Conflict and Capital Accumulation. Contributions to ‘Monetary Analysis’, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Finance-led Capitalism? Macroeconomic Effects of Changes in the Financial Sector, Marburg: Metropolis, 2008, second edition 2009 (editor with T. Niechoj, P. Spahn and A. Truger).
- Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations – Whither Mainstream Economics?, Marburg: Metropolis, 2009 (editor with T. Niechoj and E. Stockhammer).
- The World Economy in Crisis – The Return of Keynesianism?, Marburg: Metropolis, 2010 (editor with S. Dullien, A. Truger and T. van Treeck).
- A Modern Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011 (editor with E. Stockhammer).
- The Macroeconomics of Finance-dominated Capitalism - and its Crisis, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012.
- Interventions: 17 Interviews with Unconventional Economists (2004 – 2012), Marburg: Metropolis, 2012 (editor with S. Ederer, T. Niechoj, S. Reiner, A. Truger and T. van Treeck).
- Distribution and Growth after Keynes: A Post-Keynesian Guide, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2014.
- Makroökonomie, Entwicklung und Wirtschaftspolitik/Macroeconomics, Development and Economic Policies. Festschrift für/for Jan Priewe, Marbug: Metropolis, 2014 (editor with S. Dullien and A. Truger).
- The Demise of Finance-dominated Capitalism: Explaining the Financial and Economic Crises, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015 (editor with D. Detzer and N. Dodig).
- Financialisation and the Financial and Economic Crises: Country Studies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016 (editor with D. Detzer and N. Dodig)
- Monetäre Makroökonomie, Arbeitsmärkte und Entwicklung/Monetary Macroeconomics, Labour Markets and Development, Festschrift für/for Hansjörg Herr, Marburg: Metropolis 2016 (editor with A. Truger, M. Heine and F. Hoffer).
- The German Financial System and the Financial and Economic Crisis, Cham et al.: Springer International, 2017 (co-authored with D. Detzer, N. Dodig, T. Evans, H. Herr, F. Prante).
- Verteilung und Wachstum. Eine paradigmenorientierte Einführung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der post-keynesianischen Theorie, Zweite, grundlegend überarbeitete und stark erweiterte Auflage, Marburg: Metropolis, 2018.
- Einführung in die Makroökonomik: plural und interaktiv, Berlin: HWR Berlin, Online: https://www.mgwk.de/, 2020 (with A. Bramucci, F. Prante and A. Truger).
Further Information
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Hein
T +49 30 30877-1139
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eckhard.hein@hwr-berlin.de
Campus Schöneberg,
Building B, Room B 2.42
Badensche Straße 50-51, 10825 Berlin