Dirk Ehnts

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Dirk Ehnts
Born (1977-04-11) 11 April 1977 (age 47)
NationalityGerman
Academic career
Institution University of Göttingen, Germany
Field Modern Monetary Theory; Political economy; Macroeconomics
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tradition
Modern Monetary Theory

Dirk H. Ehnts (born 1977) is a German heterodox economist. He is one of the leading proponents of Modern Monetary Theory in Europe.

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Early life and studies

Ehnts was born in Bremen, Germany and finished high school there. He studied Economics from 1997 to 2002 at the University of Göttingen with one semester spent at the University of Valencia and graduated with a diploma. He was awarded a full scholarship for his PhD studies 2003-2005 and then was a research assistant at the University of Oldenburg between 2006 and 2012, from which, in 2008 he was received his Economics Ph.D. summacum laude.

Career

Ehnts worked as a visiting lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law between 2012 and 2014, where he taught classes on macroeconomics, money, and currency. Within that period, he undertook a semester off to work as visiting professor at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin. In 2015, he moved to the Bard College Berlin, while from the end of 2016 to mid-2017 and again since May 2018, he has been teaching at the Chemnitz University of Technology. [1] In between he taught at Europa-Universität Flensburg as a visiting professor for European economics. He now teaches at Steinbeis University and Torrens University Australia.

Ehnts is a member of the standing field committee History of Economic Thought of the German economists association. [2] Every summer since 2016 Ehnts has held a course on Modern Monetary Theory at the Summer School of Maastricht University. In February 2019, he organized the 1st European MMT Conference, while in July 2019, together with Pavlina Tcherneva and Esteban Cruz-Hidalgo, they advocated the introduction of a European finance ministry (the so-called "Euro Treasury") and a job guarantee for Europe. [3] The 2nd European MMT conference took place in 2021, the 3rd in 2023. [4] Ehnts is also a lecturer at the MMT summer school at the University of Poznan in Poland. [5]

Ehnts has published numerous articles in specialist journals [6] and daily newspapers. [7]

In 2019, he was invited by the Bundestag to provide expert testimony on the TARGET2 real-time gross settlement system of the Eurozone. [8] He was the first economist there to point out that TARGET assets and liabilities are not debts. In 2021, he appeared as an expert on the finance committee of the Irish Parliament. [9]

During the time leading up to the 2019 European elections, he was the main architect of Socialist Youth Austria's candidate Julia Herr Green New Deal platform. [10] He co-authored the Green New Deal for Europe. [11]

Personal life

Ehnts lives in Berlin with his wife and their two children. [1]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 "Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dirk H. Ehnts" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  2. "Cookie Consent | Verein für Socialpolitik e.V". www.socialpolitik.de. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  3. Cruz-Hidalgo, Esteban; Ehnts, Dirk; Tcherneva, Pavlina (30 June 2019). "Completing the Euro: The Euro Treasury and the Job Guarantee". Revista de Economía Crítica (27): 100–111. ISSN   2013-5254 . Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  4. "#MMT21". Pufendorf Web (in German). Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  5. Bachurewicz, 8 wrzesień 2021 | Gracjan R. "Fundacja Lipińskiego - MMT 1st Summer School in Poznań". Fundacja Lipińskiego (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-03-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. Ehnts, Dirk; Quaas, Georg (2018). "Die aktuelle Kritik an der makroökonomischen Geldtheorie – eine Replik und eine Erwiderung" [The Current Criticism of Macroeconomic Monetary Theory - a reproduction and a response]. Wirtschaftsdienst (in German). 98 (22): 137–147. doi:10.1007/s10273-018-2254-2. hdl: 10419/213633 . S2CID   159021997 . Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  7. Ehnts, Dirk (2 February 2015). "Zweifel an der Wirksamkeit der europäischen Geldpolitik" [Doubts about the effectiveness of European monetary policy]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  8. "Experten wollen Target-System beibehalten" [Experts want to keep the Target system] (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
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