Sebastian Berger

Hi! My name is Sebastian Berger and I am interested in a wide variety of issues pertaining to the life of economic ideas. My main interest has been in the discourse on social costs and the economics of K. William Kapp. This is part of my wider interest in the sociology of economic knowledge, philosophy of economics, the history of ideas and prosopography. More recently I have embarked on the research project of "Poetic Economics" which explores the relationship between poetry, art, and economics and how it can help to improve economic policy making.

At UWE I teach courses in applied microeconomics, ecological economics, business ethics, and the history of economic thought.

Before joining UWE in 2014 I taught economics at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, Roanoke College, and Dickinson College. I held a visiting scholar position at the Department of Economics at Harvard University in 2013 and at the Sorbonne - Paris in 2006. I received my PhD in economics from the University of Bremen in 2007.

I am open to research collaborations, PhD supervision, community reach out, and public speaking engagements in the above stated areas of inquiry. Please feel free to contact me.

Area of expertise Institutional Economics, Social Economics, Ecological Economics, Business Ethics, History of Economic Thought, Political Economy

Publications

Mearman, A., Guizzo, D. and Berger, S. (2018) Whither political economy? Evaluating the CORE project as a response to calls for change in economics teaching. Review of Political Economy. ISSN 0953-8259 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33087 ' Mearman, A., Guizzo, D. and Berger, S. (2018) Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement. Review of Social Economy. ISSN 0034-6764 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/34204 ' Berger, S. (2017) Can a poetic economy cure evil?: Lessons from the Kapp-Wiechert correspondance. In: Luefter, R., ed. (2017) Wirtliche Oekonomie. Traugott Bautz Verlag. [In Press] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/31965 ' Dean, E., Elardo, J., Green, M., Wilson, B. and Berger, S. (2017) Principles of Microeconomics - Scarcity and Social Provisioning. Pressbooks - Open Oregon Educational Resources. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/32484 ' Berger, S. (2017) The Social Costs of Neoliberalism - Essays on the Economics of K. William Kapp. 1st ed. Nottingham: Spokesman. ISBN 9780851248646 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/31964 ' Berger, S. (2017) Dichtung und Wirtschaft - oder: Die (Brief-)Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter Ernst Wiechert und dem Okonomen Karl William Kapp. Traugott Bautz Verlag. ISBN 9783959482318 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/31437 ' Berger, S. (2017) The knowledge we have lost in information – the history of information in modern economics, by Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah, ISBN 9780190270056. The Heterodox Economics Newsletter. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/35247 ' Webber, D., Webber, G., Berger, S. and Bradley, P. (2017) Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region. Environment and Planning A, 50 (1). pp. 157-174. ISSN 0308-518X Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33085 ' Berger, S. (2017) Towards a poetic economics: Studies in Ezra Pound's Poetry with a Hammer. In: Luefter, R. and Preda, R., eds. (2017) A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Economic Thought. Traugott Bautz Verlag. [In Press] Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/28459 ' Mearman, A., Berger, S. and Guizzo, D. (2016) Curriculum reform in UK economics: A critique. Working Paper. Economics Working Paper Series. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/31193 ' Berger, S. (2016) Social costs and the psychology of neoclassical economists. In: Gräbner, C., Heinrich, T. and Schwardt, H., eds. (2016) Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. London/New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138887268 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25695 ' Berger, S. (2015) K. William Kapp's social theory of social costs. History of Political Economy, 47 (S1). pp. 227-252. ISSN 0018-2702 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25140 ' Berger, S. (2015) Poetic economics and experiential knowledge: How the economist K. William Kapp was inspired by the poet Ernst Wiechert. Journal of Economic Issues, 49 (3). pp. 730-748. ISSN 0021-3624 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25141 ' Berger, S., ed. (2015) The Heterodox Theory of Social Costs. Routledge. ISBN 9781138775473 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25142 ' Berger, S. (2013) The making of the institutional theory of social costs. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 72 (5). pp. 1106-1130. ISSN 1536-7150 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/22790 ' Farrant, A., McPhail, E. and Berger, S. (2012) Preventing the "abuses" of democracy: Hayek, the "Military Usurper" and transitional dictatorship in Chile? The American journal of economics and sociology, 71 (3). pp. 513-538. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/34218 ' Berger, S. (2011) The Foundations of Institutional Economics. Routledge. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33435 ' Berger, S. (2009) The Foundations of Non-equilibrium Economics. Routledge. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33436 ' Berger, S. (2007) Der Europaeische Institutionalismus. Peter Lang Verlag. Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/34217 '