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Henning Schwardt

Associate Professor

Faculty
Economics
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

henning.schwardt@du.edu

303-871-2685 (Office)

Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

Specialization(s)

Institutions and Technology, development economics, Complexity Economics

Professional Biography

I studied Economics in Kiel (Germany), Stockholm (Sweden), Madrid (Spain), and received my postgraduate degree (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Bremen, in Bremen (Germany). The more I focused on questions that, I believe, require a systemic perspective for comprehensive answers, the more my interest in critical approaches to economic analyses increased. Currently, I am working on analyses involving the relation of institutions and technology, or, social and physical problem-solving tools, and complexity economics and the application of complex systems concepts in economic analyses.

Degree(s)

Dr. rer. pol. , Economics, University of Bremen, 2012

Featured Publications

Elsner, W., & Schwardt, H. (2014). 'Trust and Arena Size: Expectations, Institutions, and General Trust, and Critical Population and Group Sizes'. Journal of Institutional Economics, 10(1), 107-134.

Elsner, W., Heinrich, T., & Schwardt, H. (2014). Microeconomics of Complex Economies - Evolutionary, Institutional, Neoclassical, and Complexity Perspectives (p. 600). Academic Press / Elsevier. Retrieved from https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-microeconomics-of-complex-economies/elsner/978-0-12-411585-9

Schwardt, H. (2024). Evolutionary alternatives to equilibrium frameworks in economics education. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 21(1), 115-130. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s40844-024-00275-1

Schwardt, H., Elsner, W., & Heinrich, T. (2021). The collapse of cooperation: the endogeneity of institutional break-up and its asymmetry with emergence. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31(4), 1291-1315. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00191-021-00739-2

Schwardt, H. (2022). Technology and social rules and norms in neo-Schumpeterian economics and in original institutional economics. PSL Quarterly Review, 75(303), 385-401. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.13133/2037-3643/17371

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