Economic Growth or Climate Protection?

Ulrich Seibert

Ulrich Seibert, born in 1964, grew up in the south of Bavaria (Germany) and studied economics. After having graduated from Regensburg University with a diploma, he worked for different firms of the same group of companies. At the beginning of the 2000s, he moved through a tax consulting firm to an employers' association as a company advisor.

Around 2012, he quit his job in business for family reasons for a while and devoted himself entirely to writing, politics and music. Various short stories and novels were published. In 2019 his book "Die Diktatur des Monetariats" (The Dictatorship of the Monetariats), a topic near to his justice-craving heart, with which he returned to the starting point of his writing career, the genre of non-fiction. In this work, he tries to explain economic contexts and schemes in a generally understandable way and to show, which groups of people have staged the coup against Keynesianism (the German manifestation of this was the social market economy - "Soziale Marktwirtschaft") and institutionalized the system of neoliberalism - the system of the law of the strongest - for which motives.

For about a year now, Seibert is also in charge of an editorial office called after his book "Die Diktatur des Monetariats" at a local radio station in Munich.

With this writing he actually wanted to end his excursion into economic policy literature. But things turned out differently ...