Robert B. Warren
Robert B. Warren | |
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| Died | 1950 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| Discipline | Economist |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
Robert B. Warren was an American economist and banking expert. He was a member of the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1939 until his death in 1950.
Education and career
[edit]Warren got an A.M. at Harvard University in 1916. In 1919 he went to work for the Federal Reserve in Washington.[1]
In 1935 Abraham Flexner was struggling to establish a School of Economics and Politics at the recently founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The school initially consisted of Edward M. Earle, David Mitrany, and Winfield W. Riefler. In 1939 Warren joined the school on the recommendation of then trustee Walter W. Stewart who had worked with him at the Federal Reserve.[2] But Flexner had established the economics school without the approval of the other faculty and this led to his resignation as Director of the Institute in 1939.[3]
Nevertheless, during World War II members of the IAS School of Economics and Politics did important war work. In 1941, Warren delivered a paper entitled "Function and Scope of War Finance," which was published in 1942 as the lead essay in the Tax Institute's volume, Financing the War,[4] and in 1944 Warren, along with IAS colleague Walter W. Stewart, advised the Treasury Department in Washington on the relation between fiscal operations and the banking system.[5]
Warren was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1949.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volume 18, p. 272
- ^ Bonner, Thomas Neville (2002). Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning, p. 280, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801871247
- ^ Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, p. 93, by George Dyson, Pantheon Books, New York (2012), ISBN 0375422773
- ^ Financing the War (Philadelphia: Tax Institute/Wharton School of Finance and Commerce/University of Pennsylvania, 1942), pp. 3-24.
- ^ IAS Institute for Advanced Study (1945). Bulletin No. 11 : School Of Economics And Politics
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
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