Wizyta prof. Heinz D. Kurz, University of Graz, Austria w Akademii WSB

Heinz D. Kurz is Professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Graz and founder and from 2006-2013 chairman of the Graz Schumpeter Centre. He studied Economics and Political Science in Munich, wrote his PhD thesis in Kiel, Germany, and in 1977-1978 he was a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. In 1979 he was appointed to a Chair in Economics at the University of Bremen. In 1988 he joined the University of Graz. In 1990-1991 he served as Theodor Heuss Professor in the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York. He held numerous visiting professorships in many universities around the world, including Leicester, Osaka, Meiji (Tokyo), Wuhan, Pisa, Paris, Bangkok, St. Petersburg. In 1995 he and Neri Salvadori presented their newly released book Theory of Production at a PhD seminar at UNAM.

His main fields of research are: the theory of production, capital, income distribution, technical change and innovation, economic growth and the history of economic analysis. He received several prizes and awards, including the Main Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2002. In 2014, he was appointed to a Honorary Professorship at Nanjing University. He served as the President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and several other societies. He has published numerous papers and books with major journals, such as the Journal of Political Economy, and major publishers, such as Cambridge University Press and Columbia University Press. Several of his books have been translated into other languages, including English, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Serbian, Hindu and Turkish. His book Economic Thought: A brief History will soon be published also in Spanish. He has been the Managing Editor of the journal Metroeconomica since 1998, and is one of the Founding Editors of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He serves on the boards of several other journals. He has been the director of several research projects. He is the General Editor of Piero Sraffa’s Works and Correspondence on behalf of Cambridge University Press. He has just completed a project on smart technologies financed by the Austrian Science Foundation.

Selected publications:
-Kurz, H. D. (2016). Economic Thought: A Brief History. New York: Columbia University Press. Translated into numerous languages.
-Kurz, H. D. and Salvadori, N. (1995). Theory of Production. A Long-Period Analysis. Cambrige: Cambridge University Press. Revised paperback edn 1997. Translated into Russian and several other languages.
-Kurz, H. D., Schütz, M, Strohmaier, R. and Zilian, S. (2018). Riding a new wave of innovations. A long-term view at the current process of creative destruction. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 44(4): 545-583.
- Kurz, H. D., Schütz, M, Strohmaier, R. and Zilian, S. (eds) (2022). Handbook of Smart Technologies. An Economic and Social Perspective. London. Routledge.