The life of an economist : an autobiography
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The life of an economist : an autobiography
B. Blackwell, 1991
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Bibliography: p. 216-217
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is Kindleberger's account of his life as an economist. Beginning with his student days at Penn and Columbia, he traces his career through the inter-war years at "the Fed" (the Treasury), and the Bank for International Settlements, onto the war when he assisted in the analysis of the effectiveness of bombing, and then to the post-war settlement in which he worked on the Marshall Plan. This is followed by his return to academic life, the rapid growth of economics as a discipline, and his itinerarnt research and teaching at MIT, Oxford, Kiel, Geneva, Paris, and Rome. Throughout this autobiography, there are anecdotes, particularly of battles with bureaucrats and politicians while working in government (he was for a period under McCarthyism blacklisted from involvement in economic policy making) and of conflicts with fellow scholars, with many of whom he disagreed, but never at the expense of friendship.
Table of Contents
- Family background
- Kent school, 1924-1928
- the University of Pennsylvania, 1928-1932
- youthful summers
- interregnum
- economics at Columbia
- the U.S.Treasury Department, summer of 1936
- the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Fall 1936 to Spring 1939
- the Bank for International Settlements, 1939-1940
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1940-1941
- O.S.S., Washington, 1942-1943
- E.O.U., London, strategic targets
- E.O.U., London, tactical bombing
- G-2, 12th Army Group
- FN, OFD, Department of State, summer and early fall 1945
- seminary hill and the car pool
- GA, Department of State, 1945-1947
- the Marshall Plan, Department of State, 1947-1948
- M.I.T. and Lincoln - the forties and fifties
- Geneva, 1953-1954
- M.I.T. again in the fifties
- Oxford and Paris, 1960-1961
- M.I.T.administration
- the 1960s - research
- Atlanta, 1967-1968
- Kiel and Rome, 1970-1971
- Professor of Economics Emeritus and Senior Lecturer.
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