Description
The collection covers
Bach's professional career from his graduate student days at the University of Chicago in
the late 1930s to the dedication of the George L. Bach Auditorium at Carnegie-Mellon
University in 1993. Included are primarily: publications, articles, papers, and speeches
dealing with topics such as inflation, government economic policies, economic education, and
the future of corporate growth; course materials, notes, and articles intended for use in
Stanford University undergraduate and Graduate School of Business courses; several folders
dealing with "inflation", a primary focus of Bach's career, and several working papers by
noted economists such as Milton Friedman, Robert J. Gordon, and Arthur Okun; correspondence,
covering Bach's pre-Stanford activities at Carnegie Institute of Technology, his involvement
with the Ford Foundation's Committee for Economic Development, and communications with
various publishers and corporations, including the NY Times, World Book Encyclopedia, IBM,
and Hewlett-Packard; drafts of testimony and correspondence concerning appearances before
governmental bodies; Stanford correspondence primarily concentrated in the early to
mid-1980s time period, chronicling the "Bach Chamber Society's" concern with criticism of
business school programs; and copies of legal papers, newspaper articles, and handwritten
notes concerning the dismissal case of Professor Franklin. Included with the biographial
material are class notes and papers from Bach's graduate school days at the University of
Chicago.
Background
George Leland Bach earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in
1940. He worked as a research economist for the Federal Reserve Board during World War II.
After the war, Bach became the founding dean of the Graduate School of Industrial
Adminstration at Carnegie-Mellon University. In 1959, Bach became the chairman of the Ford
Foundation's National Task Force and the Committee for Economic Development (CED). Two years
later, CED recommended the introduction of basic courses in economic theory at the high
school level. In 1962, Bach accepted a visiting scholar position at Stanford University, and
received a full appointment to the Graduate School of Business in 1966. At Stanford, Bach
was an advocate of rigorous standards for MBA candidates. As a member of the Faculty Senate
at Stanford, he sat on the hearing board in the 1971 Franklin dismissal case. The author of
several books and articles on inflation, monetary policy and basic economic theory, Bach
also worked for a variety of organizations and corporations, and frequently gave testimony
before Congress on economic policy.
Extent
8.5 Linear Feet
13 containers
Restrictions
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Availability
This collection is partially restricted. Carnegie Institute and Ford Foundation
correspondence, Letters of recommendation, and Stanford job related correspondence
restricted until Jan 1, 2070.