Authors

Authors

Our authors contributed to the orientation section of Exploring Economics and wrote articles about the different schools of thought or they wrote articles and essays in the discover section. The contributions are usually peer-reviewed by a senior academics. Do you want to join us? Drop us a message!

 

 

Adam Aboobaker is a PhD student at UMass, Amherst. He completed the EPOG programme in 2016 and holds a Master's degree in Economics from Université Paris 7 and 13 and the University of Witwatersrand. His research interests are Kaleckian economics and the political economy of development.

 

 

Andrea Pürckhauer coordinated the development of the Exploring Economics platform as a research assistant. She studied political science and international economics. Her research interests are feminist economics and the political economy of migration.

 

 

Andreas Dimmelmeier is a GEM-STONES Doctoral Fellow in Political Science and International Political Economy at the University of Warwick and the Copenhagen Business School. His research interests include sustainable finance, politics of expertise and economic ideas.

 

 

Anil Shah is a research associate at the department of "Globalisation & Politics" at the University of Kassel and a founding member of the network for pluralist economics. In his work, he deals with the violent form of capitalist development and perspectives of social-ecological change.

 

 

Bartosz Bartkowski holds a doctorate in environmental economics and is a blogger. He studied at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, has been working at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig since 2013 and is a co-founder of the Initiative Neue Plurale Ökonomik Halle/Saale.

 

 

Daniel Obst has co-designed and co-founded Exploring Economics. He is a PhD student at the Institute for Socioeconomics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in economics.  

 

 

Felix Kersting is a research associate at the Institute of Economic History at Humboldt University Berlin. He studied economics, political science and psychology. His doctoral thesis deals with the effects of economic development on the rise of nationalism.

 

 

Franz Prante is a research associate and lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. In his research, he is particularly interested in the macroeconomic effects of inequality, financial systems and financial and economic crises.

 

 

Frederick Heussner is doing research on the intersection between International Institutions and Global Inequality. He is affiliated with the University of Munich.

 

 

Jan Meyerhoff studied geography, economics and business administration as well as innovation studies. In 2014 he co-founded the working group Plurale Ökonomik Hannover. In 2017, together with his fellow campaigners, he publishes an edited volume on "Perspectives of pluralist Economics".

 

 

Janina Urban is a research assistant at the Institute for Social Development (Forschungsinstitut für gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung), a public research institute in Germany. In 2015 she completed her Master's degree in economics and has been active in the network plural economics for four years. Her research interests lie in pluralist economics, macroeconomics and emerging markets.

 

Karsten Köhler is a PhD student at Kingston University London. His research interests include macroeconomics of open economies, financial globalization and financial crises, macroeconomic policies and income distribution. 

 

 

Lara Boerger is an economics teacher and is currently a Master's student at the University of Leipzig. She has been committed to pluralist economics for more than 5 years, was co-founder of the university group "Real-World-Economics Mainz" and has been active at AK Plurale Ökonomik Leipzig since 2015.

 

 

Ruben Tarne is a PhD student at the University of Groningen and the Hans Böckler Foundation. In 2016 he received his Master's degree in International Economics (M. A.) from the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

 

 

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