Heinz D. Kurz

Professor Heinz D. Kurz, the project leader, acquired his PhD in Economics at the University of Kiel in 1975, where he was Associate Professor of Economics until 1979, when he was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Bremen. From 1988 onwards Heinz D. Kurz held a chair as Full Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, and additionally he was director of the Graz Schumpeter Centre for studies in economic and social development (GSC) from 2006 until 2015. Heinz D. Kurz has published numerous papers in major economic journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Evolutionary Economics etc.; and several books with leading international publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Macmillan, Routledge, among them Theory of Production (1995, with N. Salvadori), which was also translated into Russian and Chinese. His research interests are wide-ranging, including topics of economic theory such as production theory and economic growth, capital accumulation and technological change.