Till Düppe

Research Fellow
Department for the History of Economics, University of Hamburg

I obtained my PhD in 2009 from the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics under the supervision of Arjo Klamer and Jos de Mul with a project called “The Phenomenology of Economics”. Currently I am a Teaching and Research fellow at the Department for Economic History at the Humboldt-University Berlin. My  main research interest is the historical epistemology of economics, inspired by phenomenological philosophy.

My Additional Content

Feelings Offstage

INET Berlin 2012 - back home again. On stage, it’s been a huge amount of claims, assertions, and arguments about what went wrong, about what exactly happened, about why this time was different, about what will certainly happen, and about what remains deeply uncertain, about...

Kids Behind the Wall

On my way back home from the Brandenburger Tor, I recalled that I already have been there, it must have been in 1988. Like many other Western German school kids we visited Berlin for a week. We climbed up a little elevated visitors’ platform on the West front of the gate to peer over the...

At Home in Economics

My friend read somewhere that the experience of death makes people think in philosophical terms. He might have thought of religion rather than philosophy, I replied. We agreed, and wandered off talking about our crypto-religious experiences in good old secular Europe. On my way back home,...

“Cause and Effect in the Macroeconomy”