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Dr Sabine Spangenberg

Associate Professor of Economics and Finance

Dr Sabine Spangenberg

Dr Sabine Spangenberg

Dr. Spangenberg grew up in Germany and studied Business Studies and Economics at the University of Duisburg, where she specialised in International Economics. After graduating as a Diplom-Oekonom she became a DAAD-Fachlektor (German Academic Exchange Service-Fellow) at the Department of Economics at Lancaster University, from where she received her PhD in Economics later. Her thesis was on “The Institutionalised Transformation of the East German Economy”. Dr. Spangenberg retains a research interest in Institutional Economics.

Courses Taught:

  • FYS 111 In Search of Wealth: An Economist’s Journey through Time
  • ECN 103 Economics of the Developing World
  • ECN 210 Introduction to Microeconomics
  • ECN 211 Introduction to Macroeconomics
  • ECN 301 Intermediate Microeconomics
  • ECN 330 Public Economics
  • ECN 450 International Economics
  • ECN480 Senior Project in Economics
  • FNN 302 Principles of Investment

 Academic Advisor to:

  • Economics Forum
  • Richmond International Action Network

 Publications

 Books:

  • The Institutionalised Transformation of the East German Economy, Heidelberg 1998 Physica Verlag.
  • In Search of Wealth, Heidelberg, Springer, forthcoming.

Articles:

  • The Political Economy of a British Stakeholder Society, in: Briefing Notes in Economics, Vol. 1, 2001.
  • Millenium Development Goals, in: Wankel, C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World, London 2009, Sage.
  • Macroeconomics, in: Wankel, C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World, London 2009, Sage.
  • The German Historical School and its Relevance to Behavioural Economics Today,  Conference Proceedings 5th Annual International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Application, Athens Greece (forthcoming 2012).
  • Political-Philosophical Considerations of the Welfare State: The Case of the English Education System,submitted for publication in Journal of Philosophy of Education.

Conferences and Workshops:

  • Teaching Development Economics at lower division in an international university, paper presented at: Teaching Development Economics, Workshop organized by the Economics Network, held in Birmingham May 2008
  • The Use of Games in Teaching Development Economics, paper presented at: Pedagogies Conference held at Richmond University, London 19 March 2010.
  • The Economics of Climate Change, paper presented at: Climate Panel Discussion, Richmond Hill Campus 5 March 2010.
  • The German Historical School and its Relevance to Behavioural Economics Today, paper presented at: 5th Annual International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Application, 25-29 June 2010, Athens Greece.

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