George Leland Bach Papers, 1937-1994.

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George Leland Bach Papers, 1937-1994.

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The collection covers Bach's professional career from his graduate student days at the University of Chicago in the late 1930s to the dedication of the George L. Bach Auditorium at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1993. Included are primarily: publications, articles, papers, and speeches dealing with topics such as inflation, government economic policies, economic education, and the future of corporate growth; course materials, notes, and articles intended for use in Stanford University undergraduate and Graduate School of Business courses; several folders dealing with "inflation", a primary focus of Bach's career, and several working papers by noted economists such as Milton Friedman, Robert J. Gordon, and Arthur Okun; correspondence, covering Bach's pre-Stanford activities at Carnegie Institute of Technology, his involvement with the Ford Foundation's Committee for Economic Development, and communications with various publishers and corporations, including the NY Times, World Book Encyclopedia, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard; drafts of testimony and correspondence concerning appearances before governmental bodies; Stanford correspondence primarily concentrated in the early to mid-1980s time period, chronicling the "Bach Chamber Society's" concern with criticism of business school programs; and copies of legal papers, newspaper articles, and handwritten notes concerning the dismissal case of Professor Franklin. Included with the biographial material are class notes and papers from Bach's graduate school days at the University of Chicago.

5.5 linear ft.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7811763

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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