Biographical Dictionary of European Economists

Christian Gehrke is an associate professor at the University of Graz, Austria. His main research interestes are in the area of production-and-distribution theory, technical change, and the history of economic thought. He has published in Economica, Economic Economy, Metroamerica, Review of Political Economy, and the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. He is currently chairman of the Graz Schumpeter Society and serves on the editorial boards of Metroamerica, Review of Political Economy, and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Heinz D. Kurz professor of economics in the department of economics, University of Graz, Austria, and director of the Graz Schumpeter Centre. His main research interests are in production-and-distribution theory, capital theory, growth theory, adn the history of economic thought. He has published more than 100 papers in professional journals and is the editor or author of some 20 books, including Theory of Production. He is a managing editor of Metroamerica and of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, as well as an editorial-board member of several other professional journals. He is the general editor of The Unpublished Writings of Piero Sraffa. Kurz is currently prsident of the History of Economic Thought Committee in the Verein fuer Socioalpolitik (Assocation of German-speaking Economists) and president of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.