K. William Kapp

Berger, Sebastian

Abstract

August Karl Wilhelm Kapp (*1910 in Königsberg – †1976 Dubrovnik) was born in the cultural and economic capital of East Prussia during the epoch of Imperial Germany. His formative years saw post-WW I revolutions of 1918, territorial separation of East Prussia from the Empire, the economic and political turmoil of the nascent Weimar Republic. Kapp’s father August Otto Wilhelm held a PhD in physics and taught at the Huf-Gymnasium, which became Kapp’s secondary school. He had no children but was survived by his wife Lore (*1906-†1979) who founded the Kapp Foundation to support the humanization and integration of the social sciences between 1980-2020 and host the Kapp Archive, which is today held by the library of the University of Basel. Kapp’s work has a significant resonance in institutional-evolutionary and social-ecological economics, reflected in the Kapp Prizes of the European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economy and the Verein für Ökologische Ökonomie. Several research organizations were inspired by Kapp’s economics, such as, for example, the International Research Centre for Environment and Development in Paris and the Socialist Environmental and Research Association in the UK.

Citation

Berger, S. (in press). K. William Kapp. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing

• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Oct 7, 2022
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Book Title: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10022304