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Prof. Dr. Bernd Senf

Department of Business and Economics
Professorship for Economic and Social Sciences Education

 

Academic and Professional Career

  • 1967: Degree in Economics
  • 1967-1972: Research assistant for Economics at the Technical University Berlin
  • since 1973: Professor of Economics (macroeconomics and general economic policy / global markets and developing countries / business and social sciences education) at the FHW Berlin / BSEL

Key Aspects of practise

  • Communication – in a way that is generally understandable – of the relationships between the economy and society with special consideration given to how life processes in individuals, nature and society are released or blocked
  • Life energy research – inter alia Wilhelm Reich and Viktor Schauberger – and its value for individual, social and ecological healing processes

International contacts (e. g.)

  • inter alia USA and Austria

External relations

  • Co-editor of the Wilhelm Reich periodical “emotion” (1979-1998)
  • Member of the academic advisory board of the Zukunftsinstitut Barsinghausen (an institute for an ecological future) - director: Arnim Bechmann
  • Collaboration with James DeMeo, Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, Ashland, Oregon, USA
  • Collaboration with Werner Onken, editor of the ZfSÖ (a social economy periodical) and the collected works of Silvio Gesell

Expert for

  • Economic and social sciences education

Key Aspects in Teaching

  • Currency systems and economic crises
  • Economic theories and crisis
  • Introduction to the works of Wilhelm Reich
  • Violence in people – nature – society: how it arises and how it is overcome

Research Projects and Fields

  • The problems with the interest rate system, and alternative monetary and exchange systems

Research Projects Abstracts

“Removing the blockage is the solution”: this general principle applies both to the flow of money in an economy and to the flow of life energy in people and nature and is of use in generating individual, social and ecological healing processes. At the same time it is the unifying principle of my various areas of research.

Selected, current Publications

  • Die blinden Flecken der Ökonomie - Wirtschaftstheorien in der Krise, 2. Auflage, dtv, München 2002
  • Der Nebel um das Geld - Zinsproblematik, Währungssysteme und Wirtschaftskrisen, 5. Auflage, Gauke-Verlag Lütjenburg 1998
  • Die Wiederentdeckung des Lebendigen, Verlag Zweitausendeins, 3. Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Nach Reich - Band 1: Sexualökonomie. Die Entdeckung der Lebensenergie. (Hrsg. zusammen mit James DeMeo), Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Verschiedene Artikel u.a. in "Zeitschrift für Sozialökonomie", "Der Dritte Weg" "evolution" (Zeitschrift der INWO Schweiz) sowie "emotion" (Wilhelm-Reich-Zeitschrift)

Selected dissertation topics

  • The problem of the interest rate system from the point of view of free economy theory – history and current references
  • Alternative monetary and exchange systems – a comparison of free money experiments and local exchange communities
  • Colonialism, under-development and dependence on global markets with reference to Namibia
  • The causes and the trigger of the current economic and financial crisis in Indonesia
  • Uneven exchange between developing and developed countries – the Teekampagne (an organisation for the ethical production and sourcing of tea) as the model for a real alternative