Department of Economics (University of Michigan) records,1915-1980 1915-1980

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Department of Economics (University of Michigan) records,1915-1980 1915-1980

Records, 1915-1980,of the department of economics of the University of Michigan; contain files of chairmen, Isaiah Sharfman, Gardner Ackley, and Warren Smith, including minutes of staff meetings, research materials, and administrative records; also papers collected and interviews conducted by Marjorie Brazer with present and past faculty of the department in connection with its centennial.

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Bentley Historical Library

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Peterson, Shorey, 1897-1981.

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University of Michigan. Department of Economics

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The teaching of political economy was provided for in Judge Woodward's "Catholepistemiad" scheme drawn up in 1817, which formed the basis for the University of Michigan. Until the appointment of Henry Carter Adams as lecturer in political economy in 1880, the current professor of moral and intellectual philosophy, who was nearly always the senior member of the faculty or the president, had taught the course. Adams became a full professor in 1887, and headed what became the Departmen...

Angell, Robert Cooley, 1899-1984

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Professor of sociology, University of Michigan. From the description of Robert Cooley Angell papers, 1923-1971. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 82246984 From the description of Robert Cooley Angell papers, 1923-1971. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420652 Robert C. Angell, sociologist, was born April 29, 1899, in Detroit, Michigan. He was educated at the University of Michigan receiving his Ph. D. degree in 1924. His thesis...

Ackley, Gardner

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Hugh Gardner Ackley (1915-1998) worked for the Office of Price Administration in Washington, D.C. from 1941 to 1943 and 1944 to 1946, and he worked for the Office of Strategic Services from 1943 to 1944. He was a member of the Presidents' Council of Economic Advisers from 1962 to 1968, and chairman from 1964 to 1968. Ackley also served as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1968 to 1969. From the description of Ackley, Gardner, 1915-1998 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administrati...

Sharfman, I. Leo (Isaiah Leo), 1886-1969

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Professor of economics at University of Michigan, referee with National Railroad Adjustment Board, member and chairman of various emergency and arbitration boards under Railroad Labor Act. From the description of Isaiah Leo Sharfman papers, 1914-1962. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423341 Isaiah Leo Sharfman was born in Polonnoe, Ukraine, Russia, February 19, 1886. He came to the United States in 1894 and became a citizen by virtue of his father...

Dernberger, Robert F.

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Morgan, James, -1772

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James Morgan was a resident of Ann Arbor Township and a member of the Ann Arbor Township Planning Commission. From the guide to the James Morgan Papers, c.1900-1988, 1950-1988, (Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan) Epithet: Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x00015e Epithet: Australian journalist British Library A...

Fowler, Ann Schwartz Smith.

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Haber, Fannie.

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Hymans, Saul H.

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Katona, George, 1901-1981

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Professor of economics and psychology, and research coordinator for the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan. From the description of George Katona papers, 1929-1981. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420691 George Katona was born in Budapest, Hungary on November 6,1901. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Goettingen, Germany in 1921. For several years, first in Germany, then in...

Shapiro, Harold T., 1935-....

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Brazer, Marjorie Cahn

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Secretary of the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Transportation Authority (AATA). From the description of Marjorie Cahn Brazer papers, 1964-1975. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421102 Marjorie Cahn Brazer, scholar and community leader, was for thirty years active in the civic and political affairs of Detroit and Ann Arbor beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing nearly up until her death in 1992. Born in 1927, she received her B.A. from Antioch College and h...

Bluestone, Barry

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Palmer, William B.

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Freedman, Deborah S.

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Smith, Warren L. (Warren Lounsbury), 1914-1972

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Warren L. Smith was born in Watertown, New York, on March 23, 1914. He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1940, but his studies were interrupted by service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He resumed his education at the University in 1946, receiving his B.A. in 1947, M.A. in 1949, and Ph.D. in economics in 1952. He taught for a time at the University of Virginia (1953-1956) and Ohio State University (1956-1957) before returning to the University of Michigan as an associate professor...

Haber, William, 1899-1988

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University of Michigan teacher and administrator, economist, labor mediator, and member of boards of various universities, Jewish educational, social, and welfare agencies, and public official. From the description of William Haber papers, 1918-1988. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422000 Educator, economist. From the description of Reminiscences of William Haber : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record ...

Fusfeld, Daniel R. (Daniel Roland), 1922-2007

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Stolper, Wolfgang F.

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Professor emeritus of economics, University of Michigan. Stolper died in 2002. From the description of Papers, 1892-2001. (bulk [1930s-1990s]). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122525097 Professor emeritus of economics, University of Michigan. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1950-1980]. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34300315 1912 Born in Vienna, Aus...

Klein, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Robert), 1920-2013

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Lawrence Robert Klein (b. 1920) is an American economist born in Omaha, Nebraska. Much of his work involves building macroeconometric models for economic forecasting. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942, and studied under economist Paul Samuelson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), completing his Ph.D. in 1944. Klein then worked on macroeconometric models at the University of Chicago. In the following years, he worked...

Brazer, Harvey E., 1922-1991

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Professor of economics and research associate of the Institute of Public Administration at the University of Michigan. From the description of Harvey Elliot Brazer papers, 1952-1985. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 78822116 From the description of Harvey Elliot Brazer papers, 1952-1970. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420909 Harvey E. Brazer was born October 18, 1922 in Montreal, Canada. He received his bachelor's degree fr...

Suits, Daniel B., 1918-

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Steiner, Peter Otto, 1922-....

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Mueller, Eva, 1920-

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Levinson, Harold Myer, 1919-....

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