Auf die Shortlist für die Vergabe des Wirtschaftspublizistik-Preises der Hans-und-Traute-Matthöfer-Stiftung schafften es 2022 außerdem:

• Grace Blakeley, Stolen, Brumaire Verlag, 01/2021
• Katharina Pistor, Der Code des Kapitals, Suhrkamp Verlag, 11/2020
• Linda Scott, Das Weibliche Kapital, Hanser Verlag, 09/2020
• Joscha Wullweber, Zentralbankkapitalismus, Suhrkamp Verlag, 06/2021

Hans Matthöfer Prize for Economic Publishing 2022

The main prize of the year 2022 goes to Michael J. Sandel for his book "Vom Ende des Gemeinwohls – Wie die Leistungsgesellschaft unsere Demokratien zerreißt" (The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?); the special prize of the year 2022 goes to Julia Friedrichs for her book "Working Class – Warum wir Arbeit brauchen, von der wir leben können" (Working Class –Why we need work we can live on).

The jury's reasoning

Michael J. Sandel's book "Vom Ende des Gemeinwohls – Wie die Leistungsgesellschaft unsere Demokratien zerreißt" (The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?) makes a significant contribution to the discussion on justice in Germany. The author criticises the orientation of income distribution towards common performance criteria and shows that this neglects the common good as the basis of a functioning society.

Julia Friedrichs' book "Working Class – Warum wir Arbeit brauchen, von der wir leben können" (Working Class – Why we need work we can live on) is an impressive documentation of the phenomenon of “being poor despite working” in Germany. In doing so, it links current empirical data with real-life examples and shows that the shift in the world of work over the last decades has led to employment conditions that – also irrespective of the level of education – have left many people behind from the development of prosperity in the country.

Award ceremony  2022: https://www.fes.de/en/day-of-progressive-economic-policy