Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Machlup, Fritz, 1902-1983
- 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.
- Extent:
- 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)
- Language:
- In English and German
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Fritz Machlup papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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Date Event 1902 December 15 Born, Wiener Neustadt, Austria1922-1933 Partner and director, Timmersdorfer Holzstoff und Pappenfabrik Emerich Kren and Co., Vienna, Austria1923 Dr. Rer. Pol., Universitat Wien, Vienna1924-1933 Partner and managing director, Ybbstaler Pappenfabriken Adolf Leitner und Bruder, Vienna1924-1948 Director, Elso Magyar Cartonlemezgyar Rt. (Erste Ungarische Carton-Pappenfabrik), Budapest, Hungary1925 Married Marianne (Mitzi) HerzogAuthor, Die Goldkernwahrung1927 Author, Die neuen Wahrungen in Europa1929-1931 Council member, Austrian Cardboard Cartel, Vienna1929-1933 Lecturer, Volkshochschule Wien, Vienna1931 Author, Borsenkredit, Industriekredit und Kapitalbildung1933 Moved to the United States1933-1935 Research fellow, Rockefeller Foundation1934 Author, Fuhrer durch die Krisenpolitik1934-1935, 1938-1939 Visiting lecturer, Harvard University, Massachusetts1935-1947 Frank H. Goodyear professor of economics, University of Buffalo, New York1936 Visiting professor, Harvard University1937-1938 Visiting professor, Cornell University, New York1938 Visiting professor, Northwestern University, Illinois1939 Visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley1940 Naturalized American1940, 1947 Visiting professor, Stanford University, California1941 Visiting professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor1942-1943 Special consultant, Post War Labor Problems Division, Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor1943 Author, International Trade and the National Income Multiplier1943-1946 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, Maryland1948 Visiting professor, Columbia University, New York1949 Author, The Basing-Point SystemVisiting professor, University of California, Los Angeles1952 Author, The Economics of Sellers' CompetitionAuthor, The Political Economy of Monopoly1955 Director, Kyoto American Studies SeminarVisiting professor, Kyoto University and Doshisha University, Japan1957-1958 Research fellow, Ford Foundation1958 Author, An Economic Review of the Patent System1960-1971 Walker professor of economics and international finance, and director of the International Finance Section, Princeton Uniersity, New Jersey1962 Author, The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States1963 Author, Essays in Economic Semantics1963-1964 Visiting professor, City University of New York1964 Author, International Payments, Debts, and Gold1965-1977 Consultant, United States Department of the Treasury1966 Author (with William J. Fellner, Robert Triffin, and eleven others), Maintaining and Restoring Balance in International Payments1968 Author, Remaking the International Monetary System: The Rio Agreement and Beyond1969-1971 Visiting professor, New York University1970 Visiting professor, Osaka University, Japan and University of melbourne, Australia1971-1983 Professor of economics, New York University1972 Author, The Alignment of Foreign Exchange RatesAuthor (with Jan Tinbergen, Abram Bergson and Oskar Morgenstern), Optimum Social Welfare and Productivity1972-1973 Visiting professor, Universitat Wien1975 Author, International Monetary Systems1976 Author, Selected Economic Writings of Fritz Machlup1977 Author, A History of Thought on Economic Integration1978 Author, Methodology of Economics and Other Social Sciences1978 Volume III: LibrariesVolume II: JournalsVolume I: Book PublishingAuthor (with Kenneth W. Leeson et al.), Information through the Printed Word: The Dissemination of Scholarly, Scientific, and Intellectual Knowledge1980 Volume I: Knowledge and knowledge ProductionAuthor, Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic significanceVolume IV: Books, Journals, and Bibliographic Sciences1982 Volume II: The Branches of Learning1983 Volume III: The Economics of Information and Human Capital1983 January 30 Died, Princeton, New Jersey - Acquisition information:
- Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1983.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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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.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Fritz Machlup papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563