What can good economics do? How do you recognize bad economics? How does theory apply to practice? Why is the Austrian School of Economics still relevant today?
Rahim Taghizadegan is an economic philosopher and founder of the Independent Institute of Value Management in Vienna. He teaches at the University of Liechtenstein, the Vienna University of Economics, the University of Halle and at SMC University. Taghizadegan is the author of Wirtschaft wirklich verstehen: Einführung in die Österreichische Schule, and co-author of Einführung in die Unternehmerethik, Wirtschaft und Ethik, Der Anti-Steingart and The Regulation Race. He works as a business trainer and publicist, as well as in space science and economics (research fellow of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the United States). He studied physics, economics, and sociology in Vienna and Lausanne, and also the Austrian School of Economics in the United States.
Does a political activity presuppose qualifications other than a management activity in the economy? A systemic comparison of leadership and management in politics and in business suggests this. In fact, an analysis of the CVs of over 700 deputies and government members in the Confederation and in the federal states shows that politics and business embody completely different worlds.
Dr. Herbert Unterköfler is a Senior Client Partner and Member of the Management Board at Korn/Ferry International in Vienna. He has extensive experience in executive search and talent management consulting, and works primarily with banks, the real estate sector and medium-sized industry. He regularly writes and lecturers on management issues as well as issues of corporate governance. He is the co-author of Die Wiener Schule der Nationalökonomie (with Eugen Maria Schulak), 2nd Edition, Published by of the Library of the Province of Weitra, 2010.
What can good economics do? How do you recognize bad economics? How does theory apply to practice? Why is the Austrian School of Economics still relevant today?
Does a political activity presuppose qualifications other than a management activity in the economy? A systemic comparison of leadership and management in politics and in business suggests this. In fact, an analysis of the CVs of over 700 deputies and government members in the Confederation and in the federal states shows that politics and business embody completely different worlds.
