Graz Schumpeter Lectures

As part of the Graz Schumpeter Lectures, a scientist known for his or her particular originality and analytical depth is invited to Graz once a year to give four lectures. These lectures are intended to discuss the current state of research in the respective field and promising further developments. The lectures are aimed at an audience interested in the topic and not at specialists in the respective field. They are generally open to the public. The written version of the lectures is then published in the series "The Graz Schumpeter Lectures".

The Graz Schumpeter Lectures are intended to

• promote economic and social science research at the University of Graz;
• to give a broader interested public the opportunity to obtain first-hand information from leading representatives of the economic and social sciences about the status and prospects of research in particularly promising fields;
• present cutting-edge economic and social science research in a way that goes beyond the specific academic discourse and thus contributes to overcoming, at least in part, a significant and widely lamented shortcoming in the current development of science: the loss of a comprehensive view of socio-economic phenomena;
• to document the practical and political relevance of theoretical and empirical research using examples of important contemporary issues.