Ekkehart Schlicht
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Ekkehart Schlicht | |
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| Born | January 1, 1945 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Kiel University of Regensburg |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Institutions | LMU Munich |
| Notable ideas | Efficiency wages Custom in the economy |
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Ekkehart Schlicht (born in 1945, Kiel, Germany) is a German economist. He is best known for his work in labor economics, custom in the economy, and his contributions to the field of institutional economics.
Ekkehart Schlicht was born in 1945 in the Northern German city of Kiel. He attended the Freie Waldorfschule Rendsburg (Schleswig-Holstein) where he completed his Abitur in 1965.
Studies
Schlicht attended the University of Kiel from 1965 to 1967, and University of Regensburg from 1967 to 1969, where he received the title of Diplom-Volkswirt in 1969. The topic of Schlicht's Diplomarbeit was "Die Einbeziehung des technischen Fortschritts in die Produktionstheorie" (The inclusion of technical progress in production theory). Two years later, he completed his doctorate, writing his thesis on "Eine neoklassische Theorie der Vermögensverteilung" (A neo-classical theory of wealth distribution).
Academic career
Schlicht has taught at the University of Bielefeld (1976–80), Technical University of Darmstadt (1980–93), and LMU Munich (since 1993). He has also held guest professorships at the University of Bonn (1975–76), Brown University (1987/88), the University of Minnesota (1991), the University of Melbourne (1995), and the University of California at Berkeley (2000/2001), as well as many further research positions.
