Norbert Häring is an economist and business journalist. Since 2002 he has reported on finance and economics for the German business newspaper Handelsblatt.^[1]

Life

He is the author (with Olaf Storbeck) of the book Ökonomie 2.0 which was a bestseller in Germany and won the 2007 GetAbstract International Book Award for best business book.^[2] It was published in English as Economics 2.0 and also translated into Chinese, Korean, Italian and Japanese.^[3] His book Markt und Macht was published in English as Economists and the Powerful (with Niall Douglas) by Anthem Press in 2012.^[4] 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."^[5]

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.^[1] 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.^[6]

In 2014 he was awarded the Keynes Prize for Economic Writing for his contributions to Handelsblatt.^[7]

Books in English

• (co-author with Niall Douglas) Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards (Anthem Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0857284594
• (co-author with Olaf Storbeck) Economics 2.0: What the Best Minds in Economics Can Teach You About Business and Life (St. Martin's Press, 2008) ISBN 978-0230612433

Books in German

• Die Abschaffung des Bargelds und die Folgen: Der Weg in die totale Kontrolle (Bastei Lübbe, 2016) ISBN 978-3869950884
• So funktioniert die Wirtschaft (Haufe Lexware, 2012) ISBN 978-3648025529
• Markt und Macht: Was Sie schon immer über die Wirtschaft wissen wollten, aber bisher nicht erfahren sollten (Schäffer-Poeschel, 2010) ISBN 978-3791029863
• (co-author with Olaf Storbeck) Ökonomie 2.0: 99 überraschende Erkenntnisse (Schäffer-Poeschel, 2007) ISBN 978-3791026350
• mit Niall Douglas: Economists and the Powerful. Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards. Anthem Press, London [u. a.] 2012, ISBN 978-0-85728-459-4
• Stimmt 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.

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