Norbert Häring


Norbert Häring is an economist and business journalist. Since 2002 he has reported on finance and economics for the German business newspaper Handelsblatt.

Life

He is the author of the book Ökonomie 2.0 which was a bestseller in Germany and won the 2007 GetAbstract International Book Award for best business book. It was published in English as Economics 2.0 and also translated into Chinese, Korean, Italian and Japanese. His book Markt und Macht was published in English as Economists and the Powerful by Anthem Press in 2012. In a review for CounterPunch, economist Michael Hudson wrote that the authors "provide a wealth of references tracing how economics was turned into a propaganda exercise for financiers, landlords, monopolists, insiders, fraudsters and other rent-seeking predators."
Häring serves as non-voting chairman for the Shadow ECB Council, a group of 15 economists drawn from banks, academia, and other institutions founded in 2002 to discuss monetary policy and make recommendations to the European Central Bank. He is a co-founder and co-director of the World Economics Association and co-editor of the journal World Economic Review, both of which aim to promote a pluralistic approach to economic research.
In 2014 he was awarded the Keynes Prize for Economic Writing for his contributions to Handelsblatt.

Books in English

Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
  • ''Economics 2.0: What the Best Minds in Economics Can Teach You About Business and Life''

Books in German

Die Abschaffung des Bargelds und die Folgen: Der Weg in die totale Kontrolle So funktioniert die Wirtschaft Markt und Macht: Was Sie schon immer über die Wirtschaft wissen wollten, aber bisher nicht erfahren sollten Ökonomie 2.0: 99 überraschende Erkenntnisse
  • mit Niall Douglas: Economists and the Powerful. Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards. Anthem Press, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85728-459-4Stimmt es, dass…? Respektlose Fragen zu Wirtschaftsordnung und Wirtschaftskrise. Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7910-3269-6.Die Abschaffung des Bargelds und die Folgen. Quadriga-Verlag, Köln 2016, ISBN 978-3-86995-088-4.Schönes neues Geld: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go – uns droht eine totalitäre Weltwährung, Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-593-50914-3.Endspiel des Kapitalismus. Wie die Konzerne die Macht übernahmen und wie wir sie zurückholen. Quadriga, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-86995-113-3.