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Professor Sabine Spangenberg

Head of School – Richmond Business School, Professor of Economics and Head of Institutional Assessment and Accreditation

Contact:
Email: sabine.spangenberg@richmond.ac.uk
School: Richmond Business School
Research centres: Wellbeing

About

Sabine is a Professor of Economics and previously served as Head of the Richmond Business School and as Head of Accreditation. After completing her studies in Economics and Business at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), Sabine moved to the UK to take up a Fellowship position at Lancaster University, where she also completed her PhD in Institutionalised Economic Transformation.

Sabine is particularly interested in welfare economics and continues to engage in research when time allows. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Development and Happiness. Sabine has served as reviewer and assessor for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and as a member of subject benchmark statement review groups (Economics).

Research interests

  • History of Economic Thought
  • Welfare Economics
  • Public Economics
  • Diplom-Oekonom (University Duisburg-Essen)
  • PhD Lancaster University

Some of the courses I teach:

  • ECN 3200 Foundations of Economic ideas
  • ECN 5200 Public Economics
  • ECN 6297 Senior Project in Economics
  • The Institutionalised Transformation of the East German Economy, Heidelberg 1998, Physica Verlag.
  • Sabine Spangenberg, David Munyinyi (2021) Construction of a Social Welfare Function under Consideration of Conditional Self-Interest, accepted for publication in International Journal for Happiness and Development, 6 (3).
  • Sabine Spangenberg, David Munyinyi (2019) Construction of a Social Welfare Function under Consideration of Conditional Self-Interest, forthcoming.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2017) Book Review: Arndt, C., Tarp, A. (2017) (eds) Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries, Oxford: OUP, in: International Journal for Development and Happiness, 3 (4).
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2016) In Search of Value: Early Civilisation and Some Athenean Thought, International Journal for Development and Happiness, 3 (2).
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2016) Protestant Ethics, in: Werry, F. (2015) Encyclopaedia of Economics and Society, Yale: Sage.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2015) Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch: The Cooperative Idea in German Liberal Thought, in: Global Journal of Human Social Sciences, 15:1, Version 1.0.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2015) The Euro: A German Tale, in WiSt Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium: Zeitschrift fuer Studium und Forschung, Issue 2.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2014) Shock Therapy and the Political Economy of Former Soviet Sphere, in: Fouskas, V. (2014) The Politics of International Political Economy, London: Routledge.
  • Sabine Spangenberg, Bryan McIntosh (2014) The Moral Imperative – The Case of the English Education System, in Policy Futures in Education, 12 (5).
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2012) The German Historical School and its Relevance to Economic Philosophy Today, in: Papanikos, G.T., ed. (2012) Economic Essays, Athens:  ATINER.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2009) Millennium Development Goals, in: Wankel, C. ed. (2009) Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World, London: Sage.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2009) Macroeconomics, in: Wankel, C. ed. (2009) Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World, London: Sage.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2001) The Political Economy of a British Stakeholder Society, in: Briefing Notes in Economics, Issue 47, 2001.
  • Edward S. Cohen, Sabine Spangenberg (2019) Generating Global Norms for Development, paper presented at WINIR Institutions for Inclusive Societies Conference, 19-22 September 2019, Lund, Sweden.
  • Edward S. Cohen, Sabine Spangenberg (2019) Norms for Development: The Role of International Economic Law, Rome Fellowship Symposium, 28th June 2019, Rome, Italy.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2019) Chair to Michael Müller: Financial Entrepreneurship at WRC Conference, to be held at Richmond, The American International University in London, 6th June 2019.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2018) The reframing of social choice theory under the consideration of conditional self-interest, paper presented at the 11th Social Ontology Society Biennial Collective Internationality Conference 22-25 August 2018, Boston, MA, US.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2018) Chair Brexit. Debate held at Richmond University on 14th March 2018.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2016) The English Bipartite Secondary School System, paper presented at the 2016 ICBTS International Academic Research Conference, 20-22. October 2016, Berlin, Germany.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2016) Guilt Aversion in Secondary School Selection, paper presented at Education and Well-being. Conference held at Richmond, The American International University of London, 24th June 2016.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2016) Chair Leave or Remain. Debate held at Richmond. The American International University in London, 15th June 2016.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2014) In Search of Value: Early Civilisation and Classical Philosophy, paper presented at Development and Well-being, Conference held at Richmond. The American International University in London, 6th June 2014.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2014) Schultze-Delitsch and German Liberalism, paper accepted for presentation at European Society for the History of Economic Thought 18th International Conference on Liberalism, 29-31 May 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2013) Assessment of Group Work, paper presented at Assessment Workshop held at Richmond The American International University, 4 October 2013, London.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2013) Discussant to Eamon Butler, Why Economists Can’t Get it Right, Richmond, The American University in London, April 2013
  • Sabine Spangenberg  (2012) Natural Wealth as Intrinsic Value: An Inquiry into the Harmony of Values and Institutions in Ancient Roman Times, paper presented at European Society for the History of Economic Thought 16th International Conference on Institutions and Values in Economic Thought, 17-19 May 2012, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Sabine Spangenberg (2012) discussant to: Michel Leroy, The Value, towards a new paradigm, paper presented at European Society for the History of Economic Thought 16th International Conference on Institutions and Values in Economic Thought, 17-19 May 2012, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Sabine Spangenberg  (2012) Monetary Union and the German Position, paper presented to Rouen Business School in Collaboration with Richmond University Conference on the Economics of the Euro-zone, 15th February 2012, London.
  • Sabine Spangenberg  (2011) Understanding the Global Financial Crisis, The Richmond University Colloquium in Public & International Affairs, 25th March 2011, Chair to Costas Lapavitsas, World crisis, world money: the Euro-crisis and Marxist monetary theory.
  • Sabine Spangenberg  (2010) The German Historical School and its Relevance to Behavioural Economics Today,  paper presented at: 5th Annual International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Application, 25-29 June 2010, Athens Greece.
  • Sabine Spangenberg  (2010) The German Historical School and its Relevance to Behavioural Economics Today, paper presented at: Research at Richmond Conference, London 15th April 2010.
  • Sabine Spangenberg  (2010) The Use of Games in Teaching Development Economics, paper presented at: Pedagogies Conference held at Richmond University, London 19 March 2010.
  • Sabine Spangenberg  (2010) The Economics of Climate Change, paper presented at: Climate Panel Discussion, Richmond Hill Campus 5 March 2010.
  • Sabine Spangenberg  (2008) Teaching Development Economics at lower division in an international university, paper presented at: Teaching Development Economics, Workshop organized by the Economics Network, held in Birmingham May 2008
  • Quality Assurance Agency QAA, Member of Advisory Review Group, Subject Benchmark Statement Economics, January 2022 – 2023
  • Quality Assurance Agency QAA, Institutional Assessor (QSR, TDAP), since 2021
  • Quality Assurance Agency QAA, Higher Education Reviewer, 2017 – 2020