ERIK S. REINERT

Langestrandsveien 59 Tel: + 47 333.93.391 N-3148 Hvasser Cellular: +47 90161391 E-mail: [email protected]

Born in Oslo, February 15,1949 Married - 2 adult children.

Languages: Fluent English, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian. Some Portuguese. Extensive work experience / lecturing in 54 countries.

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Professional experience.

2004- UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, .

Professor of Technology and Development Strategies.

2009- RES PUBLICA, Oslo.

Senior Research Associate

2001- THE OTHER CANON FOUNDATION, Norway.

Chairman. A small foundation dedicated to the diffusion of evolutionary and history-based economic theory.

1995-2001 NORSK INVESTORFORUM (Norwegian Investor Forum), Oslo.

Head of Research.

1996-1999 CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT (SUM), UNIVERSITY OF OSLO.

Senior Research Associate.

1996-1999 EUROPEAN COMMISSSION, DIRECTORATE GENERAL XIII & XVI.

Consultant. Member of panels evaluating projects for the Regional and Technology Transfer Strategies and Infrastructures (RITTS), Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS), and Projects on Technology Validation and Technology Transfer.

1992-95 STEP-GROUP - STUDIES IN TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY, Oslo.

Senior Research Associate.

1972-91 MATHERSON-SELIG S.P.A., Bergamo, Italy. 2

Founder. Managing Director 1972-74. Chairman of the Board 1974-1981. Managing Director and Chairman of the Board 1981-1991. A group of firms manufacturing colour cards for the paint and automotive industry in Europe. Production in Italy, Finland and Norway, sales in all Western European countries and in North America.

1980-81 TELESIS INC., Paris and Dublin (US consulting firm).

Only economist in a team evaluating Irish industrial policy since the War, with a mandate from the Prime Minister’s Office.

Education.

1977-80 CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N.Y., USA

Ph. D. in economics. Thesis: 'International Trade and the Economic Mechanisms of Underdevelopment'.

1974-76 . GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, Boston, Mass., USA.

MBA with 2nd Year Honors.

1970-73 HOCHSCHULE ST. GALLEN, Switzerland.

Cand. oec. (BA)

1968 OSLO HANDELSGYMNASIUM, Oslo.

‘Examen Artium’.

Visiting Professorships.

2012 & 2013. Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

2012. Tun Ismail Ali Distinguished Chair in Investment and Finance, National University of (UKM), Kuala Lumpur.

2009. Institute of Public Management, Paul Cézanne University Aix-en-Provence, France.

2005 & 2006. Asia-Europe Institute, , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Master Programme in Regional Integration.

2002-2005. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

1997-2002. ESAN University, Lima, , various years.

Sundry.

2011. Member of the launch committee of World Economic Association (“Real World Economics”), which presently has more than 12.000 members.

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2010-2011. Global Policy Forum, Yaroslavl, Russia. Member of the Advisory Board.

2009-2010. Member, Norwegian Governmental Financial Crisis Commission.

2008. Awarded the Myrdal Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy & awarded the Selvaag Prize (Norway).

Publications: Selected books.

Globalization, Economic Development and Inequality: An Alternative Perspective (editor), Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2004.

Global Økonomi. Hvordan de rike ble rike og hvorfor fattige blir fattigere (Global Economy. How the rich got rich and why the poor get poorer). Oslo, Spartacus, 2004. 2. edition 2008. Serbian translation (2006), Arabic translation (2013), Estonian translation, (2013). A shorter version of How Rich Countries got Rich…and why Poor Countries stay Poor (2007).

The Origins of Development Economics, How Schools of Economic Thought have Addressed Development, edited with Jomo, K. S., London, Zed Publications/New Delhi, Tulika Books, 2005

How Rich Countries Got Rich... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor, London, Constable, 2007. Paperback 2008, reprinted 2008 and 2010; New York, Carroll & Graf, 2007, paperback Publicaffairs, 2008, reprinted 2009; Mumbai, Anthem, 2008, reprinted 2012. Spanish translation: Editorial Critica, Barcelona, 2007, Russian: Higher School of Economics University Press, Moscow, 2010, reprinted 2014, Chinese: Renmin University Press, , 2010, Korean: Bookie, Seoul, 2011, Latvian: Zvaigzne ABC, Riga, 2012, French: Paris, Éditions du Rocher, 2012, German: Stuttgart, Schäffer-Poeschel, 2014, Portuguese: Rio de Janeiro, Contraponto, forthcoming 2014, Malay: Kuala Lumpur, National University of Malaysia (UKM), forthcoming 2014. Ukrainian: Kiev, Tempora, forthcoming 2014. Pirate edition in Farsi in Iran. For a shorter version in Norwegian, Serbian, Arabic, and Estonian, see Global Økonomi (2004).

Techno-Economic Paradigms: Essays in Honor of , edited with & , London, Anthem, 2009.

Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007): Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for Today, edited with Rainer Kattel & Jan Kregel, London, Anthem, 2009.

Thorstein Veblen: Economist for an Age of Crises, edited with Francesca Viano, London, Anthem, 2012.

Selected articles and book chapters.

‘Competitiveness and its predecessors - a 500 year cross-national perspective’, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 6, 1995, pp. 23-42,

‘Exploring the Genesis of Economic : The religious gestalt-switch and the duty to invent as preconditions for economic growth’, with Arno Daastøl, European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 4, No. 2/3, 1997.

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‘The Role of the State in Economic Growth.’, Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 26, No. 4/5, 1999, pp. 268-326.

’Full Circle: Economics from Scholasticism through Innovation and back into Mathematical Scholasticism. Reflections around a 1769 price essay: ’Why is it that Economics so far has gained so few Advantages from Physics and Mathematics?'’. Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, 2000, pp. 364-376.

‘The Qualitative Shift in European Integration: Towards Permanent Wage Pressures and a ‘Latin- Americanization’ of Europe?’ (with Rainer Kattel), Praxis Working Paper no. 17, Praxis Foundation, Estonia, 2004.

‘Creative Destruction in Economics: Nietzsche, Sombart, Schumpeter’, with Hugo Reinert, in Backhaus, Jürgen and Wolfgang Drechsler (eds.) 1844-2000: Economy and Society, New York, Springer, 2006, pp. 55-85.

’European Eastern Enlargement as Europe's Attempted Economic Suicide?’, with Rainer Kattel, The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, Working Paper No. 14, 2007.

‘The Economics of Failed, Failing and Fragile States: Productive Structure as the Missing Link’, with Yves Ekoué Amaïzo and Rainer Kattel, in Kahn, Shahrukh Rafi & Jens Christiansen (eds) Towards New Developmentalism: Market as Means Rather Than Master, London, Routledge, 2010, pp. 59-86.

‘Emulation vs. Comparative Advantage: Competing Principles in the History of Economic Policy’, in Cimoli, Mario, Giovanni Dosi and Joseph Stiglitz (eds), Industrial Policy and Development; The Political Economy of Capabilities Accumulation, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 79-106.

‘Neo-classical Economics: A Trail of Economic Destruction since the 1970s’, Real-world Economics Review, issue no. 60, 20 June 2012, pp. 2-17.

‘Economics and the Public Sphere: The Rise of Esoteric Knowledge, Refeudalization, Crisis and Renewal’, The Public Mission of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Transformation and Renewal, Research Center Berlin (WZB), Berlin, 2102.

‘Primitivization of the EU Periphery: How the hollowed out Heinrich von Thünen’s model and put both Friedrich List and Joseph Schumpeter into Reverse Gear’, in IzR. Informationen zur Raumentwicklung / Informations on Spatial Development, Bonn, , No. 1, 2013.

‘Failed and Asymmetrical Integration: Eastern Europe and the Non-Financial Origins of the European Crisis’, with Rainer Kattel, in Sommers, Jeffrey & Charles Wolfson (eds), The Contradictions of Austerity. The Socio-Economic Costs of the Neoliberal Baltic Model, London, Routledge, 2014, pp. 64-86.

‘Renewables, Manufacturing and Green Growth: An Energy Strategy based on capturing Increasing Returns’, with John Mathews, in Futures, Vol. 61, 2014, pp. 13-22.

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