Dr. Wolfram Elsner Full Professor of Economics (retired) Department of Economics / Faculty of Business Studies and Economics University of Bremen, Germany October 2019 CURRICULUM VITAE Office Address University of Bremen Faculty of Business Studies and Economics / WiWi 2 Max-von-Laue-Sr. 1 D-28359 Bremen, Germany Fon: +49-421-218-66-518 mailto: [email protected] https://www.uni-bremen.de/ierp/. Biographical Data Birthdate: January 29, 1950 Place of Birth: Niederurff/Bad Zwesten, Germany Citizenship: German. Marital status: Married since 1988, one son. Academic Education Habilitation (“Venia Legendi” of Economics), 1985, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany. PhD (Dr. rer. pol.), 1977, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany. MA Economics (Diplom), 1974, Faculty of Economics, Business Studies, and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Germany. Honors and Awards Academic Member, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center, and Guest Professor, School of Economics, Jilin University, Changchun, PR China, since 2016. EAEPE biannual Myrdal Prize 2017 for the book Microeconomics of Complex Economies. Evolutionary, Institutional, Neoclassical, and Complexity Perspectives, Amsteram, San Diego, New York, Oxford: Elsevier 2015. 2 Past President, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy—EAEPE, 2012-2014, 2014-2016. Member of the Rektor’s International Advisory Board, University of Bremen, 2010-2015. Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City UMKC, Doctoral Faculty, Department of Economics, 2008-2013. Clarence E. Ayres Visiting Scholar of the Association for Evolutionary Economics—AFEE, 1995. Honorary Nebraska Citizen, awarded by the Governor of Nebraska, since 1987. Work Experience and Academic Service Editor-in-Chief, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy—REPE, owned by the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy—EAEPE, publ. by Springer, 2018-2023. Managing Editor, Forum for Social Economics—FSE, owned by the Association for Social Economics—ASE, publ. by Taylor and Francis/Routledge, 2012-2018. Professor of Economics, Industrial and Regional Economic Research, and Institutional Economics, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen, Germany, since 1995 (retired end of 2016); Specialization: Evolutionary and institutional economics, applied cluster and network research, “meso-economics”, complexity economics. Co-Director of the Institute for Institutional and Socio-Economics (iiso) since 1998, changed to Institute for Institutional and Innovation Economics (iino) in 2006 (up to end of 2016). Editor, Book Series Advances in Heterodox Economics, London, NY: Routledge, 2009-2014. Deputy Dean for the Curriculum, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen, 1999-2001 and 2009-2013. Vice Dean, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, 2003-2005. The Faculty's Official for the MA Economics program, 2002-2003. Faculty Officer for Internationalization and for the Exchange Agreements with the New School University, New York, since 1999, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, since 2004, the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, SA, since 2009; and the Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA, since 2013. Served on many faculty committees. Served on many economic associations committees. Member of the Academic Senate, University of Bremen, and diverse senatorial committees, 2009- 2011. Director of the Bremen State Economic Research Institute (BAW—Bremer Ausschuss fuer Wirtschaftsforschung) and Head of the Planning Division, Ministry for Economic Affairs, State of Bremen, 1989-1995. 3 Bremen State Official for Industrial Defense Conversion, 1992-2001. Director of the Office of Regional Economic Development and Employment Policy, City of Bielefeld, 1986-1989. Assistant Professor, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1978-1986. Publications Several Monographs (partly in German), two Textbooks, edited and co-edited books, book series editor and co-editor, numerous book chapters and articles in international peer-reviewed journals. [see separate publications list] Textbooks: Microeconomics of Interactive Economies. Evolutionary, Institutional, and Complexity Perspectives. An Introductory and Intermediate Textbook, Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2012. Microeconomics of Complex Economies. Evolutionary, Institutional, Neoclassical, and Complexity Perspectives, Amsterdam, San Diego et al.: Elsevier/Academic Pr., 2015 (with Torsten Heinrich and Henning Schwardt. Journal articles in: Journal of Institutional Economics (JoIE) Journal of Evolutionary Economics (JEE) International Regional Science Review (IRSR) Journal of Socio-Economics (JS-E) Journal of Economic Issues (JEI) Review of Social Economy (RoSE) American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) International Review of Applied Economics (IRAE) International Journal of Social Economics (IJSE) Games European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies (EJEEP) International Journal of Pluralism and Economic Education (IJPEE) On the Horizon (OTH) Forum for Social Economics (FSE) International Journal of Economics and Business Research (IJEBR) Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (JEPM) Local Economy (LE) Social Indicators Research (SIR) International Journal of Technology and Globalization (IJTG) Corporate Ownership and Control real-world economics review (rwer). Lexical entries in: International Encyclopedia of Public Policy (IEPP) The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics. 4 Festschrift Policy Implications of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics, ed. by C. Graebner, T. Heinrich, H. Schwardt, London, New York: Routledge, 2016. Conference Presentations, Invited Talks and Keynotes (Overview, incomplete) Regular paper presentations at AFEE and ASE annual conferences (at ASSA) since 1991; also, regularly serving as invited discussant, session chair, and panelist. Regular paper presentations at EAEPE annual conferences since 1989; also, regularly serving as invited discussant, session chair, and panelist. Further papers, panel statements or keynotes given at World Keynes Conference, Izmir, Turkey, ICAPE (International Confederation for the Advancement of Pluralism in Economics), VIPE (Dutch Association for Institutional Political Economy), ILO (International Labor Organization), AFIT (Association for Institutional Thought) at WSSA. Invited talks given at Universities of Peking, Beijing, Nankai, Tianjin, Jilin, Changchun (China), NCUU, Taipei (Taiwan); Paris XIII (F), Innsbruck (A), Macerata (I), Bielefeld (D), Roskilde (DK), Trento (I), Rotterdam (NL), Kansas City (MO, USA), New School (NYC, USA), Portland (OR, USA), St. Gallen (CH), Karlsruhe (D), Witten-Herdecke (D), Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Jena (D), Perth (AUS), Bloemfontein (SA), Lappeenranta (FI), Hamburg (D), HWWI Hamburg (D), Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Halle (D), Kassel (D), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (RU), Dickinson College, Carlisle (PA), FU Berlin (D), Torino, (I), Bristol (UK), UNAM Mexico City (MEX), Fudan Shanghai (CN), Peking Uni Beijing (CN), Jilin Uni Changchun (CN). Invited guest, keynote, and laudation speaker at several extra-university institutions. Summer Schools teaching given at EAEPE, Rome (I), University of Economics, Poznan (PL), ASE, Bilbao (ES). Invited course teachings at Universities in Hamburg (D), Zurich (CH), Heidelberg (D), Berlin (D). Teaching Experience at Home Institution (Selected, Overview) Regularly taught in undergraduate studies: Principles of Economics Microeconomics Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Introduction to Game Theory. Regularly taught in graduate studies: Advanced Microeconomics Advanced Aspects of Institutional and Evolutionary Economics Information and Innovation Economics Industrial and Regional Structural Change and Policies Globalization, Regionalization, Net-Technologies, and Networks Game Theory in Evolutionary and Institutional Context. 5 Professional Service and Volunteer Work President, 2012-2014 and 2014-2016, EAEPE—European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Editor, Book Series “Advances in Heterodox Economics”—London, NY: Routledge, 2009-2014. Managing Editor, Forum for Social Economics, ASE, Taylor & Francis, 2012-2018. Exchange Visiting Professor at the New School University (NSSR), Graduate Faculty, Department of Economics, NYC (NY); UMKC (MO), Portland State University (PSU, OR); University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (SA); Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta (FI), Jilin Uni, Changchun (CN). Invited research fellow at Curtin University of Technology, Curtin Business School, Department of Economics and Finance, Perth (AUS). Member of Editorial Boards, current or past, of Review of Social Economy—RoSE, 2004-2017 Journal of Economic Issues—JEI, 2005-2007 Forum for Social Economics—FSE, 2006-2011, since 2019 International Journal of Public Policy—IJPP, since 2006 Intervention. Journal of Economics, since 2006 Economics of Peace and Security Journal, since 2006 Games (open source e-journal), since 2009 Journal of Economic Analysis—JEA (e-journal), since 2010 American Journal of Economics and Sociology—AJES, since 2010 Business Networks, since 2013. Reviewer for (in addition to the above mentioned journals) Journal of Evolutionary Economics—JEE Journal of Institutional Economics—JoIE Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization—JEBO International Review of Applied Economics—IRAE