Robert Eisner (1922-1998) Papers 1942-1998

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Robert Eisner (1922-1998) Papers 1942-1998

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Robert Eisner was an American economist. Eisner joined Northwestern's faculty in 1952 and retired from the university in 1994. Eisner’s areas of specialization included the macroeconomics of business cycles and business investment, depreciation, federal budget deficits, monetary and fiscal policy, as well as the economics of social security and tax policy. The Robert Eisner Papers fill 46 boxes, spanning the years 1942 to 1998, and document Eisner's professional life, with the bulk of the Papers consisting of correspondence and publications. The Papers are arranged in seven major categories: biographical material, education, correspondence, teaching files, speeches, publications and research/consulting materials.

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Economist Robert Eisner was born January 17, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. Eisner's mother was an English teacher, and his father was a math teacher and later a high school principal. Eisner studied history at City College of New York, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated in 1940, and went on to earn a master's degree in sociology from Columbia University before enlisting in the Army in the fall of 1942. Stationed in France, Eisner attained the rank of Field Artillery...