Thomas Straubhaar

[citation needed] He graduated from the University of Bern in 1981 with a degree in economics and minors in operations research and mathematics.

In 1983 he received his doctorate under the supervision of Egon Tuchtfeldt and in 1986 his habilitation with his work On the Economics of International Labor Migration.

[citation needed] In 1992, Straubhaar was appointed professor of economics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg.

He describes it as "at its core, nothing more than a fundamental tax reform" that "[bundles] all social policy measures into a single instrument, the basic income paid out unconditionally.

People are too valuable economically to be forced to do dangerous, risky and unhealthy work and then be dragged through the welfare state for decades until the end of their lives").

[4] Straubhaar received several scholarships (including from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Die Zeit) and was awarded the following prizes:[citation needed]