Martin Binder

Prof. Dr. habil. Martin Binder holds a Habilitation in Economics from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (habilitation project: “Wirtschaftlicher Wandel und menschliches Wohlergehen”, 2012), a PhD in Economics (2009), an M.A. in Philosophy (2004) and a M.Sc. in Business Administration (Dipl.-Kfm., 2003) from RWTH Aachen, and a B.Sc. in Economics (2002) from the Florida Atlantic University. His dissertation, which explores the normative consequences of measuring societal progress and development via measures of subjective well-being, has appeared as a monograph with Routledge in 2010 and won the „Deutscher Studienpreis 2010“ from the Körber-Stiftung. From 2004 to 2012, he was a Research Fellow and a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, where he conducted research in the fields of behavioral and evolutionary economics. Subsequently, he held a research position at the University of Sussex. Since 2013, Prof. Dr. Binder has been a Visiting Professor for Normative Economics and Business Ethics at the University of Kassel. His research interests are focused on behavioral and normative economics, and especially subjective well-being (“happiness”) research. His research has appeared in internationally recognized journals such as the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Small Business Economics. In 2009-2011, Prof. Dr. Binder received a grant from the European Commission to research knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and social well-being. Prof. Dr. Binder does extensive refereeing and is a member of the Editorial Board of Social Indicators Research.
His research can be found at www.mbinder.net/publications.

Courses taught

• Behavioral Economics
• Ethics and Economics
• Microeconomics
• Principles of Economics
• Mathematics for Economics

Awards

• Best Annual Social Indicators Research Paper Award 2012 (International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies)
• Deutscher Studienpreis 2010 der Körber-Stiftung. "Innovationen, Wirtschaftskrisen und gesellschaftlicher Fortschritt – Eine wohlfahrtstheoretische Untersuchung" (Essay)
• Springorum-Denkmünze 2005 for academic excellence (Freunde und Förderer der RWTH Aachen e.V.)
• Studienpreis Projektmanagement 2004 (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V.)

Selected Media Coverage

• Capital.gr: Η ψυχολογία της ανεργίας, 14.09.2014
• Max Planck Forschung: "Die Glückssucher", 20.09.2012
• Detektor.fm: "Forschungsquartett - Ökonomische Glücksforschung - Was macht uns wirklich glücklich?", 19.07.2012
• BR2 - IQ: "Warum in China die Menschen ungluecklicher werden", 23.05.2012
• BusinessWeek: "It's time to tax happiness", 21.05.2012
• Der Standard: "Gefuehltes Glueck erhoeht beruflichen Erfolg", 01.02.2011
• Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, "Economics of Happiness", 2011
• Panelist Koerber-Forum on "Economics and Happiness", February 2011
• Thueringer Landeszeitung: "Jenaer Volkswirt sucht ein Maß für das Glueck", 02.08.2010
• "Denkfabrik", Wirtschaftswoche: "Genießen und Leiden", 20.09.2010, Nr. 38 (online)

Further links

• Personal webpage
• LinkedIn
• Repec
• Google scholar
• ORCID Researcher ID: 0000-0002-5053-3804

Contact
Prof. Dr. Martin Binder
Economics
Phone: +49 30 43733 231
Email: m.binder[at]berlin.bard.edu

Foto: David Ausserhofer/Körber-Stiftung