Juan Carlos Herken Krauer

Juan Carlos Herken Krauer is a German-Paraguayan economist, historian, journalist, writer and professor. His novel "The Amethyst Villa" won the Literature Prize of the city of Asuncion in 2004. "Esperando al Quebrantahuesos", his fifth novel, was published in 2019.[1] His most recent academic publications are focused on the globalised "education industry", redefining the accounting identity of "educational capital", by introducing the novel category of "prestige capital". .[2] They also propose the concept of "the teacher as the modern Sisyphus", within the context of the prisoner's dilemma approach, in order to capture the increasing constraints and ethical issues overhwelming the modern teacher. [3]

Juan Carlos Herken Krauer
Born(1953-01-24)24 January 1953
Tebicuary, Paraguay
OccupationEconomist, historian, writer
NationalityGerman Paraguayan
EducationBirkbeck College, London; The London School of Economics
Notable worksEl Mercader de Ilusiones, La Villa de Amatista
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Humanities, Latin America
SpouseMaría Isabel Giménez Abente: (*1954-†1998), (1977-1983)

Education and career

He was born in Tebicuary, district of Coronel Martínez, Guairá on January 24, 1953, a descendant of German and Swiss-German families who migrated to Paraguay in the late nineteenth century.[4] He spent his childhood in his hometown, and then moved to Asunción where he attended primary and secondary education at the Colegio de Goethe, Asunción. He studied economics at the National University of Asuncion and sociology at the Catholic University of Asuncion in 1972. A student leader in the fight against the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in the early Seventies,[5] he took refuge in Buenos Aires in 1974.[6] In 1981 he earned a master's degree in Economics from Birkbeck College. In 1986 he received the Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Between 1985 and 1986 he participated in the Advanced Studies Program in International Economics of the Institut für Weltwirtschaft, University of Kiel, Germany.[7]

Journalism

His career in journalism began in 1968, writing for different student publications at the time of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner; among others, in the weekly Frente, as well as radio and television ("New Generation", 1970).[8] Collaborated with the Paraguayan News Magazine "Diálogo", and in 1974 he worked with different agencies and media based in Buenos Aires, including Inter Press Service, and became a correspondent for Latin American Newsletters, London, in 1975. In 1977, he moved to London where he worked as an editor and journalist (1977–1980) of Latin American Newsletters Ltd, and was editor-in.chief of Informe Semanal, first Spanish version of the newsletters of the British company.[9] Between 1982-84 he was a regular contributor to many newspapers in Latin America, through the Agencia Latinoamerica, based in Miami, Florida, US[10]


Economics

He was an economist in the department of developing countries for the American company Data Resources Inc., McGraw Hill, London and Boston (1985), specializing in the construction of macro-econometric models, among others Algeria[11] and South Africa [12] Between 1986 and 1987 he was a researcher at the Institute of World Economics, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, in Kiel, Germany.[13] Much of his academic bibliography focuses on economic growth, development strategies, labour market and migration, and new global corporations, as well as Latin American economies, particularly Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

History

One of his first essays published on the history of Paraguay and South America was Capitalist Development, Expansion and Brazilian Political Process in Paraguay, 1975.[14] Once based in London, he undertook an extensive research in British archives, particularly Foreign Office materials, and in libraries in France and Germany; a first result was Britain and the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1970), published in 1983, and written together with his then wife, Maria Isabel Gimenez of Herken (1954–1998)[15]

His work provides information that allows a critical reevaluation of the context and causes of the great South American war of the nineteenth century, [16] which opposed Paraguay to. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and generated strong arguments for the rejection of some of the "revisionist" theses on the inescapable contradiction between the "Paraguayan model" and British interests.[17] [18] In a letter, dated 11 October 1983, to the authors, the Paraguayan historian Carlos Pastore, describes the work as "... the first book on the development of this war which I started reading, and also finished. In all the other cases, just after having began, I left them aside. "[19] Follows Rural Paraguay between 1869 and 1913. Contributions to the regional history of the Plata, published in 1984, which proposes an original regional approach to rural economic history, linking up the Northern regions of Argentina and neighboring Brazil with Paraguay.[20] In 1984 he also published Railways, Conspiracies and Business in Paraguay (1907–1912), largely based on unpublished materials from the archives of the British Foreign Office, which revealed a vast network of political and financial collusion centered on the American entrepreneur Percival Farquhar, and his projects for a railway interconnection between the Atlantic and the Pacific.[21] In 1998 he published The Economic Policy in the Liberal Era (1904–1940), and between 2010 and 2011, two essays The heritage of two wars: 1864-70 and 1932-35, and Paraguay's economy between 1940-2008: growth, convergence and uncertainties.[22]

Academic career

His teaching experience began with occasional interventions at the schools of the University of London. He was appointed Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London from 1988 to 1990. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for 1988-89.[23] Since 1992, and based in Paris, France, served as Assistant Professor at The American University of Paris(1992–95), and as a professor in various Masters programs in Business Administration. He was appointed Professor of Economics at the European University, Paris, France, in 1997. In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Economics and Management at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Between 1998 and 2001 he was Professor for the Master in Economics Programme of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine.[24] In 2016 he was Visiting Professor of Economics at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Between 2017-18 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Jaen, Spain.[25]

Literature

While residing in Paraguay, he wrote poetry and short stories. In 1970 he was elected President of the Goethe Literary Academy College of Asunción, and was also founder and secretary general of the League of Literary Academys of Paraguay.[26] In the same year he joined the editorial board of the Revista de Cultura Universitaria Criterio.[27]

He returned to literature in the 1990s, with the appearance of his first novel, "The Merchant of Illusions", in 1995.[28] In 2003 he published "The Amethyst Village", which received the Literature Prize of the City of Asunción in 2004, for his merits in "the narrative construction and the poetic use of language".[29] In 2009 two more novels were published, "The Letter of Ulysses" and "A Summer in Paris". He has published critical studies on the literary works of Augusto Roa Bastos, Gabriel Casaccia, Joseph Conrad, Ernst Jünger, and Julien Gracq .

Works

Although he is the author of several books and essays in the area of social sciences, The Merchant of illusions is his first novel, and was published in 1995.[30]

  • Gran Bretaña y la Guerra de la Triple Alianza (1983) (co-author)
  • El Paraguay Rural entre 1869 y 1913. Contribuciones a la historia económica regional del Plata (1984)
  • Ferrocarriles, Conspiraciones y Negocios en el Paraguay, 1910 - 1914, (1984)
  • Capital-intensive Industries in the newly industrializing Countries. The Brazilian automobile and steel industries, (co-author), Kiel (1988), ISBN 3163454445
  • Argentine to 1992: The Search for Solutions, (co-author), Economist Intelligence Unit, (co-author), London, (1988),
  • La Política Económica en la Era del Partido Liberal (1904–1940), (1989);second edition 2019
  • Annäherungen, (1994)
  • Hacia una Economía Política del Mercosur (1995)
  • El Mercader de Ilusiones (1995) second edition, 2016, ISBN 9783000536472.
  • Mercado de Trabajo y Migración en el Mercosur (1996)
  • Nuestros años de luna y sol, (2001)
  • La Villa de Amatista, (2003),ISBN 9789000006281
  • Paraguarí, (2006)
  • La Carta de Ulises (2009), ISBN 9789995350703
  • Un Verano en París (2009), ISBN 9789995350710
  • Pedro Herken. Diario de Guerra, Chaco Paraguayo, September 1932-April 1936. Introducción, edición y anexos de Guillermo Alejandro Herken Meyer y Juan Carlos Herken Krauer, Berlín-Montevideo, (2018. ISBN 9789974942271
  • Esperando al Quebrantahuesos (2019), ISBN 9781686565687

References
  1. https://www.amazon.fr/ESPERANDO-QUEBRANTAHUESOS-Juan-Carlos-Herken/dp/1686565682
  2. https://vukasinbvasic.wordpress.com/2019/01/12/education-industry-from-human-capital-to-prestige-capital/
  3. http://www.asianjde.org/2018v13.2.Editorial.pdf
  4. ABC Color, Asunción, (13 May 2007), "Una estirpe suiza en el Paraguay".
  5. Última Hora, Asunción (8 April 1995), "Reportaje a Juan Carlos Herken, Una mercancía muy particular".
  6. ABC Color, Asunción. (1 April 1995), "Juan Carlos Herken, el retorno a un viejo amor: la literatura".
  7. "Juan Carlos Herken Krauer".
  8. La Tribuna, Asunción, (31 August 1972). "Juan Carlos Herken. Ficha personal"
  9. "Portal Guaraní, Juan Carlos Herken"
  10. "La banca internacional ante la crisis mexicana", El Informador, México, 27.09.1982. "Milton Friedman: Los gobiernos nunca pagan sus deudas, las refinancian", Diario de Caracas, 12.1.1983. "Banks registering big profits in Latin American debt crisis", The Daily Journal, Caracas, 25.04.1983.
  11. DRI Middle East and Africa Review (Autumn 1984, pp. 9-22.). "Algeria: entering the gas era. Forecast for 1984-94".
  12. DRI Middle East and Africa Review (Autumn 1984, pp. 8-15.) "South Africa: risks ahead. Forecast for 1984-94".
  13. Capital-intensive industries in newly industrializing ... - EconStor
  14. "Autor Juan Carlos Herken"
  15. "História e Ideologia: A produçao brasileria sobre a Guerra do Paraguai"
  16. https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/historiab/as-causas-guerra-paraguai.htm
  17. https://www.visionliberal.com.ar/nota/5955-cuando-todos-se-olvidaban-de-paraguay-solo-alberdi-lo-defendia//
  18. https://www.guiaestudio.com.br/Guerra do Paraguai
  19. https://www.academia.edu/.../In_Memoriam_Carlos_Pastor...
  20. "Encontro_de_Historiadores_-_200_anos_de_Independencia."
  21. "Rebirth+of+the+Paraguayan+republic"
  22. CADEP » Juan Carlos Herken Krauer
  23. "Guggenheim Fellows, Juan-Carlos Herken-Krauer"
  24. New Economist, EERC, Kiev, (3, Spring-Summer, 2000) "EERC International Conference: Different approaches to confronting similar problems in Eastern Europe".
  26. La Tribuna, Asunción (31 August 1972). "Juan Carlos Herken. Ficha personal".
  27. "Die Übersetzung des Romans" "El Mercader de Ilusiones" von Juan Carlos Herken
  28. "Exilio e Ilusión en la obra de Juan Carlos Herken: El Mercader de Ilusiones"
  29. "Premio Municipal fue para Juan Carlos Herken"
  30. "Herken Krauer, Juan Carlos".
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