Wolfgang Friedrich Stolper (13 May 1912 – 31 March 2002) was an American economist. Stolper was born in Vienna, the eldest son of economists

Gustav Stolper Gustav Stolper (25 July 1888 – 27 December 1947) was an Austrian-German economist, economics journalist and politician. Life and work Stolper was born into a Jewish family that had immigrated from Poland to Austria. In 1913 he established '' ...

and Toni Stolper. In 1925 the family moved to

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and emigrated in 1933 to the United States. In 1938 Stolper completed his economics studies at

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. He was a student of

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. From 1938 to 1943, Stolper was Assistant Professor of Economics at

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, Swarthmore PA. In 1945, he participated in the

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. From 1949, Stolper was Professor of Economics at the

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, Ann Arbor. In 1941 Stolper together with

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proposed the

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. In 1986 Stolper was a co-founder of the

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Selected publications

* *Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''British monetary policy and the housing boom''. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard Univ. Press, 1941. *Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''Strukturwandlungen der amerikanischen Wirtschaft seit dem Kriege''. Essen. Archiv-Verl. Hoppenstedt Merten, 1956. *Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''The National Product of East Germany'', 1959, Kyklos. *Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''The Structure of the East German economy''. (Center for International Studies; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology] / Wolfgang F. Stolper. With the assistance of Karl W. Roskamp. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1960. *Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''Germany Between East and West'', 1960 *Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''National Accounting in East Germany'', 1961, in P. Deane, editor, Studies in Social and Financial Accounting, Income and Wealth df*Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''Planning Without Facts'', 1966 *Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''Planning a Free Economy: Germany 1945-1960'' with K.W. Roskamp, 1979, ZfGS/JITE df*Wolfgang F. Stolper: ''Joseph Alois Schumpeter : The Public Life of a Private Man'', Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 1994. *The Newsletter of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. ISS Forum No. 7. August 2002

Individual evidence and observations

External links

* * 20th-century American economists 1912 births 2002 deaths Austrian emigrants to the United States University of Michigan faculty Harvard University alumni Austrian expatriates in Germany {{US-economist-stub