Hagen Krämer

Hagen M. Krämer is Professor of Economics at the Department of Management Sciences and Engineering of the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He studied economics at the University of Bremen and the New School for Social Research (New York). After completing a first degree in economics, he worked for five years as a research assistant at the IKSF, an economics research institute at the University of Bremen, where he received his doctorate in 1995 for a dissertation on income distribution and technical progress. He then worked for six years as an economist at a leading German automotive company in Stuttgart and Berlin. Hagen Krämer has been a visiting scholar or visiting professor at several institutes and universities, including The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW-Berlin), the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK-Düsseldorf), the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI-Karlsruhe), the University of Graz (Austria), and the NewSchool for Social Research (New York). He is a founding member of the German Keynes Society, a member of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, of the Scottish Economic Society and of the German Association for Political Economy. He serves as an elected member of both the Committee for the History of Economic Thought and the Committee for Economic Policy of the German Economic Association, the Verein für Socialpolitik. His preferred areas of research are income distribution, macroeconomics, the economics of the service sector, and the history of economic thought.