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Heinrich Bortis, Professor Emeritus Rue D'or 5, 1700 Fribourg / Switzerland Email Heinrich Bortis, Professor emeritus Rue d’Or 5, 1700 Fribourg / Switzerland Email: [email protected] Curriculum Vitae 1963-71 Studies in Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) 1971 Doctorate in Social and Political Sciences (Dr.rer.pol.) 1971-74 Research Student at the Faculty of Economics and Politics of the University of Cambridge (England) under the supervision of Professors Phyllis Deane, Richard Stone, David Champernowne and Nicholas Kaldor (thesis supervisor) 1977 Ph.D. in Economics of Cambridge University (recognised as habilitation thesis at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland) 1978 Lecturer in History of Economic Theory at the University of Fribourg 1980 Associate Professor of Economics and of History of Economic Theory at the University of Fribourg 1983 Visiting Professor in History of Economic Theory at the University of Bern (Switzerland) 1986 Professor of Economics and of History of Economic Theory 1991 Professor of Political Economy, History of Economic Theory and Economic History at the University of Fribourg 1994 Visiting Professor at the University of Kurgan (Russia) (one week) 1994-96 Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology 1996-97 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall (Cambridge) and Visitor to the Faculty of Economics and Politics of the University of Cambridge 1998 Life Member of Clare Hall 2015 Professor emeritus Books: Institutions, Behaviour and Economic Theory - A Contribution to Classical-Keynesian Political Economy Cambridge, New York and Melbourne (Cambridge University Press) 1997, electronic edition through netLibrary service (eBook) 2002, digital reprinting 2003, paperback edition 2006; Ukrainian edition 2007, Russian edition 2009. This book is about the conceptual foundations of a humanist middle way between capitalism and socialism which could be called Social Liberalism, i.e. Liberalism on a social - fair distribution and full employment - basis (the social philosophy of Social Liberalism can be associated to Liberal Socialism since a mixed economy with flexible proportions between public and private ownership is considered here). From a standpoint of economic theory, this intermediate way is conceived of as a synthesis of classical (Ricardian) and Keynesian political economy. While the former deals with proportional relations between individuals or collectives and society in tackling the problems of distribution and value on the basis of the surplus principle of distribution and of the labour value principle respectively, the latter is concerned with the scale of economic activity as explained by the principle of effective demand. Political economy pictures the economic aspects of the functioning of the institutional system within which the behaviour of individuals is embedded. The economy considered is, primarily, neither a market nor a planned economy, but, rather, a monetary production economy. To establish an alternative to liberalism and socialism requires setting up a system of the social sciences, based upon an appropriate social philosophy taking account of the individual and social dimensions of human nature. In this work suggestions are made for linking political economy with other social sciences, i.e. sociology, law and politics in the traditional sense, contributing thus to enhance the unity of the social sciences. In a Keynesian vein, the social sciences are conceived of as moral sciences, a view which gives rise to a specific philosophy of history. To complete the picture, issues of method associated with the theory of knowledge in the social sciences and the problem of linking theory with historical reality are also covered. Bortis, H. 2017. Zurück zur Politischen Ökonomie – 250 Jahre bewegte Geschichte der Wirtschaftstheorie, Abschiedsvorlesung am Freitag, den 2. Oktober 2015, an der Universität Fribourg Schweiz, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2017 Bortis, H. 2009. Institutsii, povedenie i ekonomicheskaya teoriya. Vklad v klassiko- keynsianskuyu politicheskuyu ekonomiyu (Institutions, Behaviour and Economic Theory - A Contribution to Classical-Keynesian Political Economy). Translated into Russian by Elena Pervukhina and Tamara Bardadym, Kyev: Vydavnychyi dim "Kyevo- Mohylyanska Academiya", 2009, 598 c. Bortis, H. 2007. Instituzii, Povedinka ta Ekonomijna Teorija - Vnesok do Klasiko- Keynsianskoi Polititschnoi Ekonomii (Institutions, Behaviour and Economic Theory - A Contribution to Classical-Keynesian Political Economy). Translated into Ukrainian by Tamara Bardadym, Kyiv, Vydavnijii Dim "Kyevo - Mogyljanska Akademija". Bortis, H. 1992. EWR und EG: Irrwege in der Gestaltung Europas - Ein theoretischer und historischer Essay zu den europäischen Integrationsbestrebungen. Freiburg/Schweiz (Universitätsverlag Freiburg/Schweiz). Bortis, H. 1979. Foreign Resources and Economic Development from the Early Fifties to the Oil Crisis. Fribourg: University Press. Bortis, H. 1971. Produkttechnischer Fortschritt und Profite - Eine mikroökonomische Darstellung. Berlin: Duncker/Humblot Articles: Bortis, H. 2018. Staatsschulden und Austeritätspolitik in klassisch-keynesianischer Sicht, in Keynes, Geld und Finanzen, Schriften der Keynes Gesellschaft, Band 11, herausgegeben von Harald Hagemann, Jürgen Kromphardt und Markus Marterbauer; Marburg (Metropolis Verlag), pp. 407 – 436 Bortis, H. 2017, Review of Mauro Baranzini and Amalia Mirante: A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge - Contributions to the Evolution of Economic Thinking, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, in History of Economic Thought and Policy, no 2 (2017), pp. 125-28 Bortis, H. 2017, Phyllis Deane (1918-2012), in: Robert A. Cord (editor): The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics, volume 2, London (Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 871-92. Bortis, H. 2016, The history of economic theories, in: Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi (eds): An Introduction to Macroeconomics - A heterodox approach to economic analysis, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 42-75. Bortis, H. 2015, Keynes and the Classics - Notes on the Monetary Theory of Production (Bortis 2003) - Übersetzung ins Russische von Elena Pervukhina, Sewastopol, in: P. I. Stetsyuk (ed.): Institutional and Technological Changes in Countries with Market and Transitional Economies [orig. russisch], Ukraine: Kyiv- Mohyla Academy Publishing House, pp. 10-89. Bortis, H. 2015, Capital mobility and natural resources dynamics: a classical- Keynesian perspective, in: Mauro Baranzini, Claudia Rotondi and Roberto Scazzieri (eds.): Resources, Production and Structural Dynamics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 155-173. Bortis, H. 2014, Europe and Economic Theory, in: Uniéco - Triméstériel Economique, no 06 - Mai-Juillet 2014, Université de Fribourg, pp. 4-6. Bortis, H. 2013, Die Entstehung der klassisch-keynesianischen politischen Ökonomie - Vom Marktparadigma zur monetären Theorie der Produktion, in: Weiterentwicklung der Keynes'schen Theorie und empirische Analysen, Schriften der Keynes- Gesellschaft, Band 7, Jürgen Kromphardt (Hrsg.), Marburg: Metropolis, S. 1-28. Bortis, H. 2013, Piero Sraffa and Shackle’s 'Years of High Theory' - Sraffa’s Significance in the History of Economic Theories, in: Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory, 3 volumes, edited by Enrico Sergio Levrero, Antonella Palumbo and Antonella Stirati; volume 3, edited by Antonella Stirati: Sraffa’s Legacy: Interpretations and Historical Perspectives, London: Palgrave–Macmillan, pp. 55 - 83. Bortis, H. 2013, Post-Keynesian Principles and Economic Policies, in: Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics, edited by Geoffrey Harcourt and Peter Kriesler, volume II: Critiques and Methodology, chapter 16, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press USA, pp. 326-365. Bortis, H. 2012, The Pyrrhic victory of capital, in: Social Scientist, Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2, pp. 81-90. Bortis, H. 2012, Toward a Synthesis in Post-Keynesian Economics in Luigi Pasinetti's Contribution, in: Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth, edited by Richard Arena and Pier Luigi Porta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 145-180. Bortis, H. 2011, Notes on Sraffa and Keynes, in: Sraffa and Modern Economics, Volume II, eds. Roberto Ciccone, Christian Gehrke, Gary Mongiovi, London, New York: Routledge, pp. 97-111. Bortis, H. 2010, Political Economy and Economic Science: The Work of Phyllis Deane, Journal of Economic Analysis, Vol. I, Issue I, 2010, pp. 49-77. Bortis, H. 2010, The Real and the Financial Sector of a Monetary Production Economy in a Classical-Keynesian Perspective - Some Considerations of Principles, in: Getting Out of the Current Economic Crisis in the Light of Alternative Development Paradigms, eds. Joanilio Rodolpho Teixeira and Ricardo Azevedo Araujo, Paris: Vera & Francilia, pp. 27-52. Bortis, H. 2009. Compte rendu, Finance servante ou finance trompeuse? Rapport de l'observatoire de la finance de Paul Dembinski. Revue économique et sociale, numéro 4, décembre 2009, pp. 117-21. Bortis, H. 2009. Krise, Krisentheorie und Krise der Theorie, in: Bulletin der Vereinigung der Schweizerischen Hochschuldozierenden 35, 2009 Nr. 2, S.9-15. Bortis, H. 2009. Secteur réel et secteur financier chez les néoclassiques et les keynésiens. Quelques considérations de principe du point de vue classico-keynésien, in: Mélanges en hommage à Jean-Claude Dischamps, ed. Ion Cucui, Maria Negreponti-Delivanis, Ion Stegaroiu. Targoviste: Bibliotheca: 43-58. Bortis, H. 2009. Poland and the Introduction of the Euro 2012, in: The Pros and Cons of Adopting the Euro Currency - Poland
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