Prof. Dr. Martin Kolmar
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Martin Kolmar holds the chair for Applied Microeconomics and is Director at the Institute for Business Ethics at the University of St. Gallen. He studies Economics at the University of Bonn and UC Berkeley. He is holding a PhD in Economics from the University of Konstanz. Prior to his position in St. Gallen, he was Professor for Social Policy at the University of Göttingen, for Economic Theory at the University of Mainz, and visiting professor at Brown University, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University.
His main areas of research include the impact of globalization on national social-security systems, institutional economics, and contests and conflict theory. He has published widely in these areas and has received several awards. Over the last years he has shifted his focus on the evolutionary, psychological, neuroscientific and narrative foundations of perception, behavior, and wellbeing. Based on this, he is developing a theory of human flourishing and wellbeing that is aimed to show the deficiencies of mainstream normative economics and to provide an alternative concept of an empirically informed and philosophically grounded concept of normative economics, and more generally a normative theory of society. In order to do so, he combines western virtue ethics, epistemology, and ontology with Buddhism and Daoism. [宗務堂1]
Reference books and papers
Are National Pension Systems Efficient if Labor is (Im-) Perfectly Mobile? Journal of Public Economics 2002, 83, 3, 347-374 (with Friedrich Breyer).
A Theory of User-Fee Competition, Journal of Public Economics, 91, 2007, 497-509 (with Clemens Fuest).
Group Size and Group Success in Conflicts, Social Choice and Welfare, 2020 (with Hendrik Rommeswinkel).
Principles of Microeconomics, Springer International, Heidelberg, first edition 2017, second edition 2021.
Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik (Foundations of Economic Policy), Mohr Siebeck, first edition 2001, fourth edition 2014 (with Friedrich Breyer).
