of The Swiss trade Association (SGV) was looking for his fight against the state and against state regulations professorial help protect. He found in the St. Gallen Professor Christoph Müller, an independent expert, developed a method for calculating the “costs of Bureaucracy” of state regulation. Criticized the “regulatory cost” of the protection of labour, food controls and social insurance bills of the SME .
The officer the Professor then came up with a survey with the participation of the auditing company KPMG to 4,8 billion Swiss francs in annual regulatory costs. By means of an obscure “high-bill” came, the trade Association for the total economy at a whopping cost of 50 billion Swiss francs Regulation. With this number, initiated the Association, then, parliamentary questions and political activeness.
With such a question, Professor, expert opinion trusted, is today made policy. You want to do in the mentioned case, a bona fide, economically correct account of the regulatory costs, namely, and Have side by side. So you have to offset the cost of regulation and the cost of the damage to the regulatory waiver. The latter arise, for example, through more work-related accidents at work less controls, or more food poisoning kitchens in the absence of controls in Gastro.
“Any interest to be a Professor!”Kaspar Villiger, Federal councillor
Professorial advice and targeted, selective, published opinion polls are increasingly becoming a political weapon of financial powerful business associations, but also from the Federal government. It allows professors to do its research until the desired results are available. Already in the pre-qualification procedures for such studies, the course is set by the “correct” selection of the reviewers.
at The time Finance Minister, Federal councillor Kaspar Villiger, described this Situation once resigned with the witty remark: “Any interest to be a Professor!”
the pharmaceutical industry and implants manufacturers are one of the major sponsors of the professors of Medicine and of clinical contract research. The Bernese professors Max Aebi and Thomas Steffen came recently in the criticism, because they are a British manufacturer of artificial intervertebral discs as a professorial experts for the promotion of those pollutants were used in the development of which they were themselves involved.
As the private hospitals with the demand for “more competition” and “level playing field” propagated to the mangers of the health insurance pre-wanted, delivered them to the Basler, a Professor of Economics Stefan Felder the ordered assessment for more competition.
reviewer war to a framework agreement,
Recently, this newspaper has exposed how the St. Gallen Professor Thomas Friedli for the Federal government for a legal opinion created the counter-transactions in the case of arms purchases. At the same time he was also in the Pay of the Ruag, which takes part in such counter-transactions.
The Swiss national Bank (SNB) is massively financing the study center Gerzensee, and sponsors running the Bernese economy professors think the Silo, the SNB profession oral secure and to the outside to defend.
The Seco makes up with countless targeted research contracts to its policy, the leaves, sometimes even the Federal untrustworthy. It is, at the time, relied on the expert opinion of Professor Thomas Straubhaar, the forecast for the free movement of persons, immigration of only 8000 per year.
we are Currently experiencing one of the assessors of the war on the institutional framework agreement. Anyone evaluation wants an uncritical Pro-EU, and asks the law Professor Christa Tobler from the Europe Institute Basel or Astrid Epiney of the University of Freiburg, both of which are moved frequently as a Hofexpertinnen of the SRG. The one who seeks, by contrast, a critical opinion, asks Professor Carl Baudenbacher, or Ex-Diplomat Paul Widmer or a critical Federal judge, whereby the Latter, after all, not only Stube taught knowledge, but also your long practice experience.
It is a full sponsors transparency needs for Research assignments and reports.
Who wants to dismantle the welfare state and fiscal federalism justify, commissioned Economics Professor Christoph Schaltegger of the faculty of Economics of Lucerne, which is financed by the private sector. But who is looking for reviewers for the justification of the welfare state, the private office Bass.
policy and University leaders urge all on the generation of private third-party funding, also of interest is bound to sponsors for research contracts. The University of Zurich has now rules as the First gentle transparency with the publication of Research papers that are about 100’000 Swiss francs decided – but only if the Sponsor allows for this transparency. After all, a real first step.
It is a full sponsors transparency needs for Research assignments and reports. It needs in the institutions of higher education within the faculties and departments also more pluralism of methods and point of view, the reputation-damaging break up Think In-Group. Opinions are only credible if they are conducted according to the Peer principle-that is, with an open annotation through independent, experienced and not directly involved experts.
Even with the media an important task, it is A serious play, and summary of expert opinions and expert reports must be accompanied by external counter-positions, or of their own critical assessment. Otherwise, the expert activities of professors, consulting firms and think tanks will crash more and more in the credibility of the case.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 08.04.2019, 20:28 PM
