__NOTOC__ Kurt Singer (May12, 1886February14, 1962) was a German economist and philosopher. Born in

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, he was a professor at

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(1924–1933). He taught at the

Tokyo Imperial University The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public university, public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several Edo peri ...

from 1931 to 1935. Singer died at Athens at the age of 75.

Literary works

* ''On the crisis of present-day Japan'', 1932 * ''Das Geld als Zeichen'', 1920 * ''Platon und das Griechentum'', 1920 * ''Platon der Gründer'', 1927

Further information

* Schönhärl, Korinna. (2007). Die Ökonomen des George-Kreises zwischen Historischer Methode und Ökonometrie 1918-1933: der Ökonom Kurt Singer und die Methode der Semiotik, Zeitschrift für Bibliothek, Archiv und Information in Norddeutschland, Nordhausen: Bautz, ISSN 0720-7123, ZDB-ID 8020310, Vol. 27.2007, 4, German economists German expatriates in Japan German expatriates in Greece Writers from Magdeburg People from the Province of Saxony 1886 births 1962 deaths German male non-fiction writers 20th-century German philosophers {{Germany-philosopher-stub