Carl Christian von Weizsäcker#
| Membership Number: | 80 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - today Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
- 2003 Professor Emeritus, University of Cologne
- 1986 - 2003 Professor of Economics University of Cologne
- 1982 - 1986 Professor of Economics University of Bern
- 1974 - 1981 Professor of Economics University of Bonn
- 1972 - 1974 Professor of Mathematical Economics University of Bielefeld
- 1968 - 1970 Professor of Economics MIT
- 1965 - 1972 Professor of Economics University of Heidelberg
- 1964 - 1965 Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute on Educational Research in Berlin
- 1962 - 1964 Post-doc Fellowship MIT and University of Cambridge
- 1961 Dr. phil. University of Basel in Economics
- 1957 - 1961 Student in economics, and other social sciences at the Universities of Zürich, Göttingen, Hamburg, Freiburg and Basel
Fields of Scholarship
- Capital theory
- Climate policy
- Social market economy
- Eurozone crisis
- Welfare economics with adaptive preferences
- History of economics
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Gustav Stolper Prize in recognition "for his contributions to economic debate in Germany"
- Member of Acatech, National Academy of Science and Engineering
- Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Founding Member and Fellow of the European Economic Association
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Nordrhein Westfalian Academy of Sciences
- 1977 – today member of the Advisory Group of the German Minister of Economic Affairs
- 1986 – 1998 Member of the German Monopoly Commission (1989-1998 Chairman)
- 1986 – 2003 Director of the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne
