Kurz, Heinz Dieter

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Emeritus Professor at Graz University.

Born 1946 in Pfaffenhofen/Ilm, Germany, he studied Economics and Political Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, where he graduated in 1971. As a research assistant at the University of Kiel, he submitted his PhD thesis on “Piero Sraffa’s theory of value and distribution” in 1975, which earned him the Academic Prize of the University. In 1977-78 he was a British Academy Fellow, University of Cambridge UK, Wolfson College. In 1979 he was appointed to a chair in economics at the University of Bremen. In 1988 he moved to the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz, Austria. 1990-1991 he served as Theodor-Heuss-Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York. He is the founder of the Graz Schumpeter Centre, Distinguished Honorary Professor of Nanjing University and a Doctor honoris causa of Wuppertal University. He held Visiting Professorships in numerous universities all over the world. He gave numerous keynote lectures, including the Economic Issues Lecture at the 1997 Royal Economic Society conference, the Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture in 2017 at JNU, New Delhi, the Kurt Rothschild Lecture in 2018 in Vienna, and keynotes at meetings of the IIOA, ESHET, IE etc. He received several academic prizes, including the Main Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Historical-Philosophical Class.