© Nikolaus PelkaDr. Annette Schäfer studied economics in Cologne and Dublin and wrote her dissertation on “short termism in the stock market”. She also read up intensively on psychological research. For over 15 years, she has been working as a freelance journalist. Her articles on the subjects of psychology, biography and the economic world have appeared in Psychologie heute, Gehirn & Geist, Scientific American Mind, Brand eins, Wirtschaftswoche and Financial Times Deutschland. Besides, she is the author of a non-fiction book, a biography and a collection of scientist profiles. She lives in Chicago and Cologne.
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WIR SIND, WAS WIR HABEN
Korea: Bookhouse Publishing; |
WE ARE WHAT WE HAVE If you were emigrating: What would you pack? You diary? Your favorite cardigan or the watch handed down by your father? Some favourite objects follow us through life, from a baby's security blanket to the carefully polished automobile, from the designer handbag to a decade old collection of things. Our relationship to these things touches upon some very personal questions: Identity and self-esteem, social position, our own biography. With wit and knowledge Annette Schäfer tells how the role of these objects changes in the course of our life, what others make of them, which objects are cherished by women, which by men, why we can hardly part from some things - and tells us a lot about ourselves on the way. |
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DIE KRAFT DER SCHÖPFERISCHEN ZERSTÖRUNG
China (simplified): China Machine Press; |
THE POWER OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION Economists are not known to be the most exciting people in the world. A person who looks at life through the lens of economic laws every day must by nature be prosaic and sober. The life of Joseph Alois Schumpeter shows how wrong that assumption is. |