Anna Schwartz Papers, 1929-2012

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Anna Schwartz Papers, 1929-2012

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Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research and collaborator with Milton Friedman on numerous works, including A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960. Schwartz also served as the executive director of the United States Gold Commission from 1981 to 1982. Collection consists largely of Schwartz's professional materials, including economics research and subject files on monetary policy, gold, the Federal Reserve, currency, and the 2008 Financial Crisis; collaborations with other economists; correspondence, largely professional but including some personal letters; Gold Commission materials from the 1980s; Shadow Open Market Committee materials; and writings, including lectures and articles by Schwartz. Another significant part of the collection is the Milton Friedman series, which includes correspondence, writings, and other materials relating to Friedman and his work.

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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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Schwartz, Anna J. (Anna Jacobson), 1915-2012

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Economist. Anna Jacobson was born in New York City on November 11, 1915. She studied at Barnard and Columbia, receiving her master's degree in 1935 and her Ph.D. in 1964. She married Isaac Schwartz in 1936, the year she began work as a research associate at the Social Sciences Research Council at Columbia. In 1941 she became a member of the senior research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City, where she spent the balance of her professional ...