Bloomfield, Arthur I. (Arthur Irving)

Senior economist and officer at Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Economics teacher at University of Pennsylvania.

From the description of Arthur I. Bloomfield papers, circa 1930-1993 (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41395635

• 1914, Oct. 2: Born Arthur Irving Bloomfield in Montreal, Canada.
• 1931: Entered McGill University on scholarship after graduating first out of 900 students in the Province of Quebec high school leaving examinations.
• 1935: B.A. (Economics and Political Science), McGill University.
• 1936: M.A. (Economics and Political Science), McGill University. Thesis: Canadian Wheat Marketing Policy, 1929-1936.
• 1940, Autumn - 1941 : Research Assistant to Prof. Oskar Morgenstern, Princeton University. Collected and analyzed international financial data for major industrial countries before 1914 and in the 1920s.
• 1941 - 1958 : Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Economist, Research Dept. 1941-47; Chief of Balance of Payments Division, 1947-53; Senior Economist, 1953-58.
• 1942: Ph.D. (Economics), University of Chicago.
• 1944 - 1945 : Consultant to Foreign Economic Administration, Washington, D.C.
• 1945: Acquired U.S. Citizenship.
• 1949, Sept. - 1950, Mar. : Advisor, Bank of Korea and Korean Ministry of Finance, Seoul, South Korea, on behalf of the Economic Cooperation Administration.
• 1950: Publication of Capital Imports and the American Balance of Payments, 1934-39 (University of Chicago Press), based on doctoral dissertation.
• 1951, Dec. - 1952, Apr. : Financial Advisor, United Nations Civil Assistance Command and the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency, in Pusan, South Korea.
• 1953, Feb.: Member, four person team sent to the Associated States of Indochina by the Mutual Security Administration to evaluate U.S. foreign aid program to that area.
• 1953, Autumn: Senior Economist, Professional Staff of the (Randall) Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, U.S. Government, Washington, D.C.
• 1954, Oct. - 1955, Jan. : Consultant, U.S. Foreign Operations Administration, Indochina.
• 1956, Nov: 1960, Aug.: Consultant, International Cooperation Administration, in Seoul, South Korea.
• 1957 - 1958 : Year-long research trip visiting 12 European central banks (six months at Bank of England) on a Rockefeller grant, conducting research on the international gold standard before 1914.
• 1958 - 1985 : Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
• 1959: Published Monetary Policy under the International Gold Standard, 1880-1914 (Fed. Reserve Bank NY).
• 1961, Jan.: Consultant, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University College of the West Indies, Jamaica and Trinidad.
• 1963: Published Short-term Capital Movements under the Pre-1914 Gold Standard (Princeton Univ. Press).
• 1964, Sept. - 1964 Dec. : Consultant, Central Bank of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, on behalf of the Ford Foundation.
• 1967, June: 1966, Aug. - 1966 Sept : Consultant, U.S. Agency for International Development, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• 1968: Published Patterns of Fluctuation in International Investment Before 1914 (Princeton Univ. Press).
• 1974 - 1975 : Research in London for article Adam Smith and the Theory of International Trade.
• 1978 - 1998 : Member, Managing Board of Editors, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.
• 1985 - 1998 : Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
• 1998, Oct. 6: Died in Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Arthur I. Bloomfield Papers, 1927-1995, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)