Gerold Blümle (born 1937) is a German economist.

Life edit

Blümle was born on 30 January 1937 in Lörrach, Württemberg and, from 1972 to 2002, he was the Professor of Mathematical Economics at the University of Freiburg[1] and a leading German exponent of the theory of income distribution and external trade theory.

Blümle's brother is the Swiss-German economist Ernst-Bernd Blümle. During his studies, which he spent in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Freiburg im Üechtland, among other places, he joined the Catholic Student Associations, K.St.V. Germania-Hohentwiel and K.St.V. Carolingia-Friborg, in the Kartellverband.

From 1985 to 1990 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom of economic-liberal party Free Democratic Party in Germany. For many years, Blümle has also researched, lectured, taught and written on the subject of Baden's national game of Cego.[2][3][1]

Science edit

In his is research, Blümle combines economic history and theory history. He argues that political economics as such should serve life; theoretical and historical thinking should be linked.

Gerold Blümle developed a business cycle model as a predator-prey relationship. In this model, there is a cyclical relationship between the investment ratio and the spread or variance of the profits, which is represented by Lotka-Volterra equations.[4]

Works edit

  • Theorie der Einkommensverteilung. 1975.
  • Fortschritt und Schöpfungsglaube oder Die Machbarkeit des Glücks. 1984.
  • Wirtschaftsgeschichte und ökonomisches Denken, Ausgewählte Aufsätze. 2008.
  • Das badische Nationalspiel Cego, 2018.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Kosturkova, Nadya and Jörg Rieger (2018). "Prof. Dr. Gerold Blümle" in Ordnungspolitisch stets auf Kurs. Munich: Franz Vahlen.
  2. ^ "Cego soll wieder salonfähig werden" in Badische Zeitung, 27 Apr 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  3. ^ Das badische Nationalspiel Cego at swv-schopfheim.de. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  4. ^ Gerold Blümle: "Wachstum und Konjunktur bei Differenzgewinnen – Ein Schumpeter-Modell der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung" in : Beiträge zur angewandten Wirtschaftsforschung. ed. by HJ Ramser and Hajo Riese. Gottfried Bombach zum 70. Geburtstag. Berlin, 1989, pp. 13–37. Also in Frank Schohl: Die markttheoretische Erklärung der Konjunktur. Schriften zur angewandten Wirtschaftsforschung. Tübingen, 1999.

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