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Title: Fritz Machlup papers
Date (inclusive): 1911-1983
Collection Number: 83037
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and German
Physical Description:
315 manuscript boxes, 10 oversize boxes, 6 card file boxes, 1 album box, 1 oversize folder, 4 audiocassettes, 4 audiotape
reels
(139.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, reports, memoranda, notes, questionnaires, data, financial records, grant proposals, instructional
materials, and printed matter, relating to economic theory and to information systems and the creation and transmission of
knowledge.
Creator:
Machlup, Fritz, 1902-1983
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box 330 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials
must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection,
they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1983.
[Identification of item], Fritz Machlup papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1902 December 15 | Born, Wiener Neustadt, Austria |
| 1922-1933 | Partner and director, Timmersdorfer Holzstoff und Pappenfabrik Emerich Kren and Co., Vienna, Austria |
| 1923 | Dr. Rer. Pol., Universitat Wien, Vienna |
| 1924-1933 | Partner and managing director, Ybbstaler Pappenfabriken Adolf Leitner und Bruder, Vienna |
| 1924-1948 | Director, Elso Magyar Cartonlemezgyar Rt. (Erste Ungarische Carton-Pappenfabrik), Budapest, Hungary |
| 1925 | Married Marianne (Mitzi) Herzog |
| Author, Die Goldkernwahrung | |
| 1927 | Author, Die neuen Wahrungen in Europa |
| 1929-1931 | Council member, Austrian Cardboard Cartel, Vienna |
| 1929-1933 | Lecturer, Volkshochschule Wien, Vienna |
| 1931 | Author, Borsenkredit, Industriekredit und Kapitalbildung |
| 1933 | Moved to the United States |
| 1933-1935 | Research fellow, Rockefeller Foundation |
| 1934 | Author, Fuhrer durch die Krisenpolitik |
| 1934-1935, 1938-1939 | Visiting lecturer, Harvard University, Massachusetts |
| 1935-1947 | Frank H. Goodyear professor of economics, University of Buffalo, New York |
| 1936 | Visiting professor, Harvard University |
| 1937-1938 | Visiting professor, Cornell University, New York |
| 1938 | Visiting professor, Northwestern University, Illinois |
| 1939 | Visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1940 | Naturalized American |
| 1940, 1947 | Visiting professor, Stanford University, California |
| 1941 | Visiting professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1942-1943 | Special consultant, Post War Labor Problems Division, Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor |
| 1943 | Author, International Trade and the National Income Multiplier |
| 1943-1946 | Visiting professor, American University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1943-1946 | Chief, Research Section; Acting Chief, Division of Investigation and Research; Chief, Division of Research and Statistics, Office of Alien Property Custodian, Washington, D.C. |
| 1947-1960 | Abram G. Hutzler professor of political economy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1948 | Visiting professor, Columbia University, New York |
| 1949 | Author, The Basing-Point System |
| Visiting professor, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 1952 | Author, The Economics of Sellers' Competition |
| Author, The Political Economy of Monopoly | |
| 1955 | Director, Kyoto American Studies Seminar |
| Visiting professor, Kyoto University and Doshisha University, Japan | |
| 1957-1958 | Research fellow, Ford Foundation |
| 1958 | Author, An Economic Review of the Patent System |
| 1960-1971 | Walker professor of economics and international finance, and director of the International Finance Section, Princeton Uniersity, New Jersey |
| 1962 | Author, The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States |
| 1963 | Author, Essays in Economic Semantics |
| 1963-1964 | Visiting professor, City University of New York |
| 1964 | Author, International Payments, Debts, and Gold |
| 1965-1977 | Consultant, United States Department of the Treasury |
| 1966 | Author (with William J. Fellner, Robert Triffin, and eleven others), Maintaining and Restoring Balance in International Payments |
| 1968 | Author, Remaking the International Monetary System: The Rio Agreement and Beyond |
| 1969-1971 | Visiting professor, New York University |
| 1970 | Visiting professor, Osaka University, Japan and University of melbourne, Australia |
| 1971-1983 | Professor of economics, New York University |
| 1972 | Author, The Alignment of Foreign Exchange Rates |
| Author (with Jan Tinbergen, Abram Bergson and Oskar Morgenstern), Optimum Social Welfare and Productivity | |
| 1972-1973 | Visiting professor, Universitat Wien |
| 1975 | Author, International Monetary Systems |
| 1976 | Author, Selected Economic Writings of Fritz Machlup |
| 1977 | Author, A History of Thought on Economic Integration |
| 1978 | Author, Methodology of Economics and Other Social Sciences |
| 1978 | Volume III: Libraries |
| Volume II: Journals | |
| Volume I: Book Publishing | |
| Author (with Kenneth W. Leeson et al.), Information through the Printed Word: The Dissemination of Scholarly, Scientific, and Intellectual Knowledge | |
| 1980 | Volume I: Knowledge and knowledge Production |
| Author, Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic significance | |
| Volume IV: Books, Journals, and Bibliographic Sciences | |
| 1982 | Volume II: The Branches of Learning |
| 1983 | Volume III: The Economics of Information and Human Capital |
| 1983 January 30 | Died, Princeton, New Jersey |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Economics
Economists
Information services
Learning and scholarship