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Call Number: SC0207
Creator:
Kreps, Theodore John, 1897-
Title: Theodore John Kreps Papers
Dates: 1926-1962
Physical Description:
6.75 Linear feet
Summary: Reports, memos, surveys, statistics, legal documents, and
some printed material. Arrangement is chronological. Subjects included are cartels,
anti-trust , labor, conservation, investment, reciprocal trade, government
purchasing, production, government regulations, inflation, land-lease, war
mobilization, and international trade.
Language(s): The materials are inEnglish.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Theodore John Kreps, born 13 January 1897 in Prinsburg, Minnesota, received his Ph.D
from Harvard in 1928. He was professor of business economics at Stanford (1930-1962;
emeritus, 1962- ).
| 1897, January 13 | Born, Prinsburg, Minnesota |
| 1917-1919 | 1st Lt..A.B.F. |
| 1919 | Married Esther E1vira Cersberg (six children) |
| 1920 | A.B., University of Cclorado |
| 1920-1923 | Instructor of history and economics at Colorado State °rep. - Boulder |
| 19214 | A.N., Harvard |
| 1925-1930 | Instructor of economics and tutor history, government and eccnomics at Harvard |
| 1926 | Frederick Sheldon Fellow |
| 1928 | Ph.D., Harvard |
| 1928-1929 | Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellow, Bureau of International Research |
| 1930 | At Stanford since 1930 |
| l935 | Chief, Statistics Section, National Recovery Administration; Chairman, Co-ordinating Committee of Central Statistical Board and Works Progress Administration |
| 1936 December | Representative U.S. Government to Preparatory Technical Tripartite Conference on Reduction of Hours in Chemical Industry, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1937, Summer | Economic Adviser U.S. Maritime Commission 1938, 1941-1945 Economic Adviser, Anti-trust Division, Department of Justice |
| 1939-1940 | Economic Adviser, Temporary National Economic Commission |
| 1914, Summer | Chief Consultant, Office of Price Administration |
| 1942-1941 | Chief Economic Adviser, Board of Economic Warfare |
| 1949-1951 | Staff Director of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report |
| 1951 | Ford Foundation exchange Professor to the Free University of Ber1in, Author of books, articles and reviews |
Reports, memos, surveys, statistics, legal documents, and some printed material.
Arrangement is chronological. Subjects included are cartels, anti-trust , labor,
conservation, investment, reciprocal trade, government purchasing, production,
government regulations, inflation, land-lease, war mobilization, and international
trade.
Kreps, Theodore John, 1897-
Managerial economics.