Louis Walinsky papers, 1953-1992.

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Louis Walinsky papers, 1953-1992.

Daily records kept during six years of service as chief resident economic advisor to the Burmese government, 1953-1958, noting the progress and difficulties encountered in Burma's efforts to achieve accelerated economic development, and weekly letters during the same period to Robert Nathan, the head of the economic consulting firm Louis Walinsky and his team represented, summarizing and assessing the recorded events. Additionally, correspondence, reports, articles, publications, and other materials relating to Burma and Burmese economic and political affairs, including intermittent correspondence and memos with and for U Nu.

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Cornell University Library

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Economic consultant. Louis Walinsky was born in London in 1908, the son of Russian émigré parents, and came to the United States in 1912. In 1929 he graduated from Cornell University, where he majored in economics under Sumner Slichter and Herbert Joseph Davenport, and went on to do graduate work at the University of Berlin, CCNY, and the New School. He taught economics in New York City from 1930-1943; served as an economic consultant for the War Production Board from ...

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