Fechner Lecture mit Bruno S. Frey

Die Vorträge finden in englischer Sprache statt, die folgenden Informationen sind daher nur in Englisch verfügbar.

Must It Be an Original?
Considering Alternatives

Bruno S. Frey
Professor of Economics, Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Basel and Research Director of CREMA—Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

Most art experts are convinced, and keep insisting, that only the original work of art conveys its true aesthetic value. Yet today, many exhibitions—even in leading museums (such as the Louvre)—show reproductions and still attract large numbers of visitors.

Bruno S. Frey will apply this insight to advance two propositions: (1) how to deal with the problem of restitutions (such as the Benin Bronzes); and (2) how Venice can be saved in view of the huge number of visitors who, over time, destroy this unique treasure.

Short Bio

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Bruno S. Frey (born in Basel) is professor of economics. He studied Economics in Basel and Cambridge (England), and had a two-year stay in the United States. From 1970 to 200 he has been an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Basel. From 1970 to 2006 he has been an Associate of Economics at the University of Basel. He was Full Professor of Economics at the University of Constance between 1970 and 1977; and from 1990 to 1991 he was a Visiting Research Professor at Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. More recently, from 1977 to 2012, he was a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. Professor Frey has been Distinguished Professor of Behavioral Science at the Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick (U.K.) from 2010 to 2013. From 2012 to 2015, he was Senior Professor of Economics at Zeppelin University, Germany, and between 2007 and 2009 Visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich. Professor Frey is Research Director of CREMA—Center for Research in Economics, Management, and the Arts, and is the honorary editor of Kyklos. Since 2015, he is Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Basel/ Faculty of Business and Economics (CREW-Center for Research in Economics and Well-Being). Bruno S. Frey received an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of St. Gallen in 1998, the University of Gothenburg in 1998, the Free University of Brussels in 2009, the University of Aix-en-Provence/Marseille in 2010, and the University of Innsbruck in 2011. He belongs to the small set of the “most highly cited researchers.” He is a Fellow of the Public Choice Society, a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and a Distinguished Fellow of CESifo Research Network. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals, as well as the author of 21 books, some of which have been translated into nine languages. His current main research is on the subjects of “happiness,” “Random Choice,” and “Overcoming Overtourism.”

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