Prof. Dr. RICHARD STURN (Schumpeter Centre, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria) 

Ph.D. in economics (University of Vienna 1988).

1996 habilitation and since 1997 professor at the Institute for Public Economics in Graz.

Since 2015 Joseph A. Schumpeter Professor for Innovation, Development and Growth and Head of the Graz Schumpeter Center.

Principal Investigator in the Core Research Area Climate Change at Graz University.

Visiting professorships include positions at the University of Minnesota/Minneapolis, USA, the University of Lyon II, and the École des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales/Aix-Marseille School of Economics.

Managing Editor of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

ESHET President-Elect, 2024-26.

Research interests: History of Economics and Economic Thought, public goods and nonmarket institutions, Evolutionary Political Economy and Transformation Processes, Institutional Economics, Normative Economics, Economics and Philosophy.

Recently published Journal articles with HET-focus include:

• “The greatest and noblest of all characters”: Knowledge, improvements, and Smith’s Science of the Legislator. Journal of Contextual Economics, forthcoming 2014 (published online first: https:/doi/org/10.3790/schm.2024.383297)  
• From Public Finance to Public Economics, joint with Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay and Marianne Johnson, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30(5), 2023, 750‒777.
• Mapping the history of public economics in the twentieth century, joint with Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay and Marianne Johnson, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30(5), 2023, 599‒620.