I am a research assistant at the chair for internatiol economic relations at University of Oldenburg, Germany. This year I completed my doctoral degree after participating in the PhD program “Globalization and Employment”. In this blog I write about stuff that crosses my mind, mostly from Economics and related fields. I try to keep the vocabulary simple so that hopefully everybody can understand it. That is why the blog is named econ101.de. The views expressed here are my own, and this website is not affiliated with the University of Oldenburg.
Editing of my articles: In case I make some mistake(s) using the English language I will edit my posts after publishing them. I will and have not changed any content in order to change my view or my arguments. If I do, or if I want to add something interesting, I put an UPDATE: DD/MM/YY below the original text.
Commenting: Comments that I find interesting will be approved. Since there are not many comments yet, I might change the policy at a later date.
My contact details can be found at my webpage.
Front page picture: taken at Puerto Varas, Chile. It shows the volcano Osorno. Location on Google Maps.
Dear Dr. Ehnts:
Although I have no academic degree, I have allways been completely interested in economics and trying to study the best I can, especially in this terrible crisis times.
Also I can very difficult express my self in another language than my spanish, but I congratulate very much you for the very valuable aid that you give. I thank you for this, and will be on the watch for your very welcome “random comments”.
Sincerely,
Rodolfo Ornelas Chávez.
By: Rodolfo Ornelas Chávez on November 21, 2008
at 1:02 am
I like your philosophy. I have this puzzle I’ve thrown at the high priests of modern macro: can they fit Minsky into their models? I think it can be done, but requires effort to collect more data.
Good luck!
By: Orlando Roncesvalles on February 7, 2009
at 4:24 pm
Hi Dirk,
goodle’s alert brought me to your “econoblog 101″ which, I am sure, refers to Henry Hazlitt’s :”Economics in One Leson” which I just re-read and do recommend to do the same to everybody. I wonder if you are also familiar with the writings of Jean Baptist SAY, perhaps the most consistent defender of capitalism and free trade in economics.
However, I was much urprised that you mentioned Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” which is so good as unknown in Germany. I have been familar with the philosophy of Ayn Rand for now almost 30 years and I only can recommend to anybody to have just a look at ww.aynrand.com
I wish you good premises,
Horst Jepsen
By: horst jepsen on May 11, 2009
at 5:05 pm