Weintraub, Sidney, 1914-1983

American economist and professor.

From the description of Papers, 1939-1984 (bulk 1958-1983). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39100504

Sidney Weintraub (1914-1983) was an American economist and a professor who specialized in the post-Keynesian school of economics. He was best known for his proposal to use the federal income tax to discourage wage and price inflation in a tax-based incomes policy (TIP). Raised in New York, Weintraub studied at the London School of Economics before being forced to return to the United States at the outbreak of World War II. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 1941, and began teaching economics at St. John's University following the war. He joined the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1950, where he remained for the rest of his career. Weintraub also founded and co-edited the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics .

Weintraub married Sheila Ellen Weintraub and had two sons, E. Roy and A. Neil Weintraub. E. Roy Weintraub is an economics professor at Duke University.

This note includes information gathered from: Saxon, Wolfgang, Sidney Weintraub Dies at 69; An Economist and Professor, New York Times, 21 June 1983.

From the guide to the Sidney Weintraub Papers, 1938-1984 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)