Sidney Weintraub (; April 28, 1914 – June 19, 1983) was an American economist, one of the most prominent American members of the

Post Keynesian economics Post-Keynesian economics is a school of economic thought with its origins in ''The General Theory'' of John Maynard Keynes, with subsequent development influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Sidney Wei ...

school. He was the co-founder and co-editor of ''The Journal of Post Keynesian Economics'' (1978). His views included criticism of

monetarism Monetarism is a school of thought in monetary economics that emphasizes the role of governments in controlling the amount of money in circulation. Monetarist theory asserts that variations in the money supply have major influences on measures ...

and the

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, and promotion of the tax-based incomes policy (TIP).

Biography

After a year at the

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in 1938–9, Weintraub received a Ph.D. from

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in 1941, and worked at the

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until 1943, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. In 1945 he joined the faculty of

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in Brooklyn, New York. In 1950 he joined the faculty of the

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. In 1957 he was awarded a

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fellowship to travel to Europe. In 1969–70 he taught at the

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. In 1972–3 he wrote a weekly column for the ''

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''. During his career he gave over 500 guest lectures in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and published 18 books, 80+ scholarly articles, and 50+ popular articles. His students include Paul Davidson and

Douglas Peters Douglas Dennison Peters, (March 3, 1930 – October 7, 2016) was a Canadian banker, economist, and politician. Life and career Peters was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Mary Gladys (née Dennison) and Dr. Wilfrid Seymour Peters. In 1954 ...

. In August 1940 he married Sheila Tarlow. He is the father of the mathematical economist

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.• John Lodewijks, 2002. "Roy Weintraub's Contribution to the History of Economics," in S. G. Medema and W. J. Samuels, ed., ''Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory'', Routledge, pp
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• Mark Blaug, 1999. ''Who's Who in Economics'', 3d edition.

Publications

* ''Price Theory'', 1949. * ''Income and Employment Analysis'', 1951. * ''Approach to the Theory of Income Distribution'', 1958. * ''A General Theory of the Price Level, Output, Income Distribution, and Economic Growth'', 1959

* ''Classical Keynesianism, Monetary Theory, and the Price Level'', 1961. * ''A General Theory of the Price Level'', 1959. * ''A Tax-Based Incomes Policy'' (with Henry C. Wallich), Journal of Economic Issues, 197

* ''Keynes and the Monetarists'' (1973). 2nd ed. 1978. *

References

External links

Sidney Weintraub on History of Economic Thought website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weintraub, Sidney 1914 births 1983 deaths Post-Keynesian economists Alumni of the London School of Economics New York University alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty 20th-century American economists United States Army personnel of World War II

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