Kurt Singer
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Kurt Singer was a German
Germany
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 economist
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 and philosopher.

Born in Magdeburg
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, he was a professor
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 at Hamburg University (1924–1933).

He taught at Tokyo Imperial University from 1931 to 1935.

Singer died at Athens
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, Greece
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.

Literary works

  • On the crisis of present-day Japan, 1932
  • Das Geld als Zeichen, 1920
  • Plato
    Plato
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    n und das Griechentum
    , 1920
  • Platon der Gründer, 1927

Further information

Schönhärl, Korinna. (2007). Die Ökonomen des George-Kreises zwischen Historischer Methode und Ökonometrie 1918-1933: der Ökonom Kurt Singer und die Methode der Semiotik, Zeitschrift für Bibliothek, Archiv und Information in Norddeutschland, Nordhausen: Bautz, ISSN 0720-7123, ZDB-ID 8020310, Vol. 27.2007, 4, pp. 551-568

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