Ines Heck

Ines Heck

Lecturer in Economics

Ines Heck is a Lecturer in Economics, affiliated with the Centre for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability. She is interested in feminist economics, wealth and income inequality, and questions of macroeconomic and public policy. She has worked on the productivity puzzle, taxation and history of economic thought, for funders like the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, the Chamber of Labour in Austria and a Member of the European Parliament.

Awards
  • University of Greenwich Vice-Chancellor Scholarship (3-year funding for MPhil/PhD)
  • University of Greenwich International Business and Economics Department Prize for Postgraduate Academic Performance (for Master’s dissertation)
  • PhD Fellowship Gender Studies for a project on Digitalisation and Gender Pay Gap at the University of Graz: 75% funding for 12 months with potential extension (declined)
  • Vienna Chamber of Labour Research Scholarship for Graduate Degrees Abroad (Netzwerk Wissenschaft Förderstipendium 2018)

Research / Scholarly interests

Feminist economics, wealth and income inequality, public policy

Recent publications
  • Rabensteiner, Thomas, Ines Heck, Ben Tippet and Anna Kolesnichenko (2025): The profit-price spiral in food and energy: Analysis and toolbox to fight inflation. FEPS Policy Study. https://feps-europe.eu/publication/the-profit-price-spiral-in-food-and-energy/
  • Heck, Ines, Anna Hornykewycz, Jakob Kapeller and Rafael Wildauer (2024, in German): Vermögensverteilung in Österreich: eine Analyse auf Basis des HFCS 2021/22. (English: Wealth distribution in Austria: an analysis based on HFCS 2021/22). Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. AK Wien
  • Heck, Ines, Thomas Rabensteiner and Ben Tippet (2024): A progressive excess profit tax for the European Union. Greenwich Papers in Political Economy. No. 97. https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/45941/
  • Leitner, Andrea, Margareta Kreimer, Ines Heck and Zora Vakavlieva (2023): Gender Segregation in Vocational Education and Occupations in the Context of Digitalisation. IHS Working Paper 46. https://irihs.ihs.ac.at/id/eprint/6525/25/ihs-working-paper-2023-leitner-kreimer-et-al-gender-segregation-in-vocational-education.pdf
  • Wildauer, Rafael, Ines Heck and Jakob Kapeller (2023): Was Pareto right? Is the distribution of wealth thick-tailed? Greenwich Papers in Political Economy. No. 92. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/38597
  • Heck, Ines and Cem Oyvat (2023): Productivity, wages and structural change: a two-sector demand-led model. Greenwich Papers in Political Economy. No. 93. https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/38601/
  • Hager, Theresa, Ines Heck and Johanna Rath (2022): Polanyi and Schumpeter: Transitional processes via societal spheres. European Journal of History of Economic Thought. DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2022.2131865
  • Kreimer, Margareta and Ines Heck (2021, in German): Doch nicht so krank? – Eine feministisch-ökonomische Perspektive auf die Kostenkrankheit der sozialen Dienstleistungen (English: Not so diseased after all? A feminist economics perspective on the cost disease in social services), in: Emunds, Bernhard, Degan, Julian, Habel, Simone & Hagedorn, Jonas (eds.) Freiheit, Gleichheit, Selbstausbeutung. Weimar bei Marburg: Metropolis.
    The book is available here (in German)
  • Heck, Ines, Jakob Kapeller and Rafael Wildauer (2021, in German): Vermögenskonzentration in Österreich – Ein Update auf Basis des HFCS 2017 (English: Wealth concentration in Austria – HFCS 2017 update). Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. AK Wien.

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