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Heiner Flassbeck (born 12 December 1950) is a German economist and public intellectual. From 1998 to 1999 he was a State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Finance ((ドイツ語:Bundesministerium der Finanzen)) where he also advised former finance minister Oskar Lafontaine on a reform of the European Monetary System. He became the Chief of Macroeconomics and Development of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (''UNCTAD'') in Geneva in January 2003, a position that he held until resigning at the end of 2012 due to his age. == Life == Heiner Flassbeck studied economics at Saarland University (1971–1976). During that time he was assistant at chair of Wolfgang Stützel with emphasis on currency issues. Afterwards, up to 1980 he worked in the assistants staff of the German Council of Economic Experts. 1987 he received a doctors degree ''Dr. rer. pol.'' at the Free University of Berlin with his work: ''Prices, Interest and Currency Rate. On Theory of Open Economy at flexible Exchange Rates'' ((ドイツ語:Preise, Zins und Wechselkurs. Zur Theorie der offenen Volkswirtschaft bei flexiblen Wechselkursen)). After he was operating at the Federal Ministry for Economy and Technology since 1980, he changed over to the German Institute for Economic Research ((ドイツ語:Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, DIW)) in Berlin in 1986, where he worked on labour market- and business cycle analysis and concepts of economic policy. 1990 he became head of the department ''business cylce'' at the institute. When the government changed in October 1998 he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance in the first Schröder cabinet. He counseled the former finance minister Oskar Lafontaine with his intent to establish together with French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn a Keynesian fiscal policy and monetary policy on level of the European Union and to reform the international monetary system. After Oskar Lafontaine resigned from minister in March 1999, Flassbecks work as a state secretary ended in April 1999 as well. That followed a period of working free lance as an economic researcher and a publicist. From November 2000 to December 2002 he worked as a senior economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). From January 2003 up to his service retirement he was the chief economist, ''Chief of Macroeconomics and Development'' of the UNCTAD, since August 2003 ''Director of Division on Globalization and Development Strategies''. The Hamburg University of Economics and Politics appointed Flassbeck a honorary professor in March 2005.〔(Persondata about Heiner Flassbeck at the Hamburg University )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heiner Flassbeck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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