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{{Short description|German economist and philosopher}}
{{confuse|Kurt Singer (musicologist)}}
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'''Kurt Singer''' (May{{nbsp}}12, 1886{{snd}}February{{nbsp}}14, 1962) was a German economist and philosopher.

Born in [[Magdeburg]], he was a professor at [[Hamburg University]] (1924–1933). He taught at the [[Tokyo Imperial University]] 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, {{pp.|551|568}}

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[[Category:German economists]]
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[[Category:German male non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:20th-century German philosophers]]


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