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Dr. Christian Schubert

	Dr. Christian Schubert
	Research Fellow
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
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Curriculum Vitae

from nov. 2012:	Visiting Professor of Microeconomics, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus.
aug. - oct. 2012:	Visiting Fellow, School of Economics, Utrecht University (NL)
apr. 2009 - feb. 2010:	Fixed Term Professor, “Ordnungspolitik” (Constitutional Economics), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
dec 2003:	PhD in Economics (summa cum laude)
2002-2012:	Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
1998-2002:	Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany.
1998:	Diplom-Volkswirt (M.A. in Economics).
1991-1998:	Studies in Economics at the universities of Osnabrück and Lausanne (Switzerland)

Research Interests

• Evolutionary Economics
• Normative Implications of Behavioral Economics
• Happiness/Subjective Well-Being

Recent Working Papers

• (with Martin Binder) "Reconciling normative and behavioral economics: An application of the 'naturalistic approach' to the adaptation problem", under review.
• (with Leonhard Lades) "Fighting Maritime Piracy: Three Lessons from Pompeius Magnus", Jena Economic Research Papers #2012-017, under review.
• "Opportunity and Preference Learning", Papers on Economics & Evolution #1208, under review

Publications

• "Role models that make you unhappy: Social learning, light paternalism and Welfare", Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming (with Christian Cordes). doi: 10.1017/S1744137413000015
• "'Generalized Darwinism' and the quest for an evolutionary theory of policy-making", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, forthcoming. doi: 10.1007/s00191-013-0304-x
• "The pitfalls of Darwinian 'progress'. A Comment on 'Evolvability and progress in evolutionary economics' by Tim Cochrane and James Maclaurin", Journal of Bioeconomics, forthcoming. doi: 10.1007/s10818-012-9146-0
• "How to evaluate creative destruction: Reconstructing Schumpeter's Approach", Cambridge Journal of Economics, 37, 2 (march 2013), 227-250. doi: 10.1093/cje/bes055
• "Is Novelty always a good thing? Towards an Evolutionary Welfare Economics", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 22, 3 (july 2012), 585-619, doi: 10.1007/s00191-011-0257-x
• "Pursuing Happiness", Kyklos 65, 2 (may 2012), 245-261, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2012.00537.x
• "Constitutional Interests in the Face of Innovations: How much do we need to know about Risk Preferences" Constitutional Political Economy, 19 (September 2008), 203-225. (with Ulrich Witt), doi: 10.1007/s10602-008-9044-6
• "Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of the Social Contract", Constitutional Political Economy, 18 (March 2007), 35-62. (with Christian Cordes), doi: 10.1007/s10602-006-9011-z
• "Die rechtliche Steuerung urbanen Wandels - eine konstitutionenökonomische Untersuchung". Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Einheit der Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Nr. 135), 2006.
• "Evolution and Design of Institutions". London: Routledge, 2006 (edited with Georg v. Wangenheim)
• "Evaluating Designed Institutions from an evolutionary perspective". In: Schubert, C./v.Wangenheim, G. (eds.), Evolution and Design of Institutions. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 149-179.
• "Hayek and the Evolution of Designed Institutions: A Critical Assessment." In: Backhaus, J. (ed.), Entrepreneurship, Money and Coordination - Hayek's Theory of Cultural Evolution. Cheltenham: E. Elgar, 2005, pp. 107-130.

Other Stuff

• "Verhaltensökonomische und Evolutorische Perspektiven auf Konsumentensouveränität und Wohlfahrt", Jahrbuch Normative und Institutionelle Grundfragen der Ökonomik, im Erscheinen (2013) (mit Ulrich Witt)
• "Politische Implikationen der Verhaltensökonomik", Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, Heft 2/2013, 84-89.
• "Verführerische Analogien", Comment on Hans Mohr, "Evolutionäre Ethik". Erwägen Wissen Ethik 21/2 (2010), 112-115.
• Review of: Joel Waldfogel (2007), "The tyranny of the market: Why you can't always get what you want", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229(5) (2009), 668-669.
• "Wissensgehalt und Interpretation von Routinen", Comment on M.C. Becker, "Wiederkehrende Handlungsmuster, Rekonstitutivität und Heuristiken". In: Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, M. (ed.), Perspektiven des Wandels: Evolutorische Ökonomik in der Anwendung. Marburg: Metropolis (2002), pp. 489-496.