Machlup, Fritz, 1902-1983

Austrian-American economist.

From the description of Fritz Machlup papers, 1911-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872023

Biographical Note

• 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

From the guide to the Fritz Machlup Papers, 1911-1983, (Hoover Institution Archives)