Language Policy and Linguistic Justice

Michele Gazzola (1978) is a research fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the Research Group "Economics and Language", as well as a research fellow at the Institute for ethnic studies (InStitut za narodnostna vpraSanja) in Ljubljana, and a teaching fellow at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. He is currently working on the research project Mobility and Inclusion in a Multilingual Europe (project MIME). His research areas include language policy and planning, the economics of languages, policy analysis, and multilingualism as a social phenomenon.

Torsten Templin (1986) is a research assistant at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2012 he graduated in Mathematics. Since 2014 he is part of the EU financed MIME project (Mobility and Inclusion in a Multilingual Europe) and works on modeling the dynamics of language use and language policy evaluation. His research interests include language economics, applied mathematics and optimal control theory.
Bengt-Arne Wickström (1948) is guest professor at Andrássy University in Budapest. From 1992 until his retirement in 2013 he held the chair of public economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and before that chairs at Johannes-Kepler-Universität in Linz, Austria, and the University of Bergen, Norway. He is an honorary professor at Universidad de La Habana. His research is concentrated on economics and language, and he is currently (2014-2018) coordinating a research group working on the dynamics of language use as part of the EU-financed MIME project (Mobility and Inclusion in a Multilingual Europe) involving some 20 universities. In addition to language economics, his research interests include welfare economics, public-choice theory, and evolutionary approaches in economics.