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Title: Fritz Machlup Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1911-1983
Collection Number: 83037
Creator: Machlup, Fritz, 1902-
Collection Size:
313 manuscript boxes, 11 oversize boxes, 6 card file boxes, 1 album box, 4 phonotape cassettes, 4 phonotape reels
(139 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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.
Language:
English and
German.
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
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[Identification of item], Fritz Machlup papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1983.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Economics.
Information services.
Learning and scholarship.
Economists.
Phonotapes.
| 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 | Author, Die Goldkernwahrung |
| Married Marianne (Mitzi) Herzog | |
| 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 | Visiting professor, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Author, The Basing-Point System | |
| 1952 | Author, The Political Economy of Monopoly |
| Author, The Economics of Sellers' Competition | |
| 1955 | Visiting professor, Kyoto University and Doshisha University, Japan |
| Director, Kyoto American Studies Seminar | |
| 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 (with Jan Tinbergen, Abram Bergson and Oskar Morgenstern), Optimum Social Welfare and Productivity |
| Author, The Alignment of Foreign Exchange Rates | |
| 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 | Author (with Kenneth W. Leeson et al.), Information through the Printed Word: The Dissemination of Scholarly, Scientific, and Intellectual Knowledge |
| Volume I: Book Publishing | |
| Volume II: Journals | |
| Volume III: Libraries | |
| 1980 | Volume IV: Books, Journals, and Bibliographic Sciences |
| Author, Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic significance | |
| Volume I: Knowledge and knowledge Production | |
| 1982 | Volume II: The Branches of Learning |
| 1983 | Volume III: The Economics of Information and Human Capital |
| 1983 January 30 | Died, Princeton, New Jersey |