Joël Bühler

Hi there and welcome!

My name is Joël Bühler (I am not picky about umlauts and pronunciation, so no worries) and I am a PhD student in the economics programme at University of Barcelona, at the Department of Econometrics, Statitics and Applied Economics.

My research interest centers around ecology and technology, and how different institutions impact these crucial factors of human development. If you were to force me to subscribe to a subdiscipline, I would probably see myself most as an environmental and/or public economist. I also have a strong interest in heterodox economics, particularly Eco-Marxism, whose theoretical perspective I often find very challenging.

I spend a lot of my spare time doing sports like cycling and cross-country skiing.

Back in my hometown Liestal (Switzerland), I used to be a local parliamentarian for the Social Democrats and to blog about local and national politics; I will keep these posts (in German) online for archival reasons!

All my best,
Joël