Corwin D. Edwards

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Corwin D. Edwards (born 1901 or 1902 in Nevada , Missouri , † April 21, 1979 in Dallas ) was an American economist.

academic career

Edwards graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in economics . He then went to England on a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University . He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University in Ithaca , New York, in 1928 with a dissertation on a union issue . He started his academic career by teaching at New York University from 1933 .

After two decades as a civil servant, he began teaching again in 1953. He spent a year at Cambridge University in England and another at the University of Virginia . Between 1955 and 1963 Edwards was "professor of business and government" at the University of Chicago and between 1963 and 1971 "professor of economics" at the University of Oregon .

Activity as an author

Edwards published articles and monographs on the subjects of trade unionism, marketing , competition policy , antitrust , monopoly , cartels , large companies , concentration , price regulation , patents and consumer interests until 1979 .

Since the 1940s, he switched to the field of cartels and restraints of competition.

In 1944, Edwards delivered the third major US pamphlet against international cartels , alongside the works of Joseph Borkin , Charles Welsh and Wendell Berge . This was a radical position of Roosevelt - progressives that dominated 1943 to 1946. It was rejected as unrealistic or imperialist by both conservative and Marxist sides. The 'gray eminence' behind the campaign appears to have been Thurman Arnold , who was removed from his position as Chief Competition Guardian (the Antitrust Division) by Franklin D. Roosevelt .

Edward's main concern was state competition policy , which defends consumer interests against large-scale industry . In 1978 he received the Veblen Commons Award from the Association for Evolutionary Economics for his institutional economics work.

Activity for the public sector and as an appraiser

Edwards entered the civil service in 1933: he became "assistant director for consumer affairs" in the National Recovery Administration , a planned economy agency of the New Deal under Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1937 he moved to the Federal Trade Commission , where he became chief economist. Between 1939 and 1944 he was an economic advisor and chairman of the political advisory board of the Antitrust department in the Ministry of Justice. In 1948 he returned to the Federal Trade Commission as director of the Bureau of Industrial Economics, where he remained until 1953. Edwards has been entrusted with expert opinions or advice on many occasions. In 1942 he worked on a US project to solve economic problems in Brazil and in 1947 was the head of the expert group on Japanese conglomerates. He was an advisor to the US delegation to the United Nations for many years and testified on antitrust cases before congressional committees.

Private

Edward was initially married to Jane Morris Ward, the marriage ended in divorce. His second wife was Gertrud Greig. He had two children with her.

Works (selection)

  • The First International Workingmens̕ Association . Ithaca, NY. 1928.
  • Some consumer problems . In: Berman, Edward: Economic problems in a changing world. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Publishers - 1939, pp. 15-187.
  • Economic and political aspects of international cartels. A study made for the Subcommittee on War Mobilization of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate pursuant to S. Res. 107 . A resolution authorizing a study of the possibilities of better mobilizing the national resources of the United States. Washington: Gov. Pr. Off. 1944 and 1946.
  • The Effect of Recent Basing Point Decisions Upon Business Practices . In: The American Economic Review 38 (1948). no. 5, pp. 828-842.
  • Regulation of monopolistic cartelization . In: Ohio State Law Journal 14 (1953), p. 252-278.
  • Foreign trade and the antitrust laws: hearings before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, US Senate , Washington, DC, Vol. 1.1964, pp. 481-598.
  • Concentration data and concentration concepts in Japan . In: Economic concentration: hearings before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. - Washington: US Gov. Print. Off. - Vol. 7a 1969, pp. 4252-4256.
  • The multimarket enterprise and economic power: remarks upon receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award , In: Journal of economic issues. - Philadelphia, Taylor & Francis Group, ISSN 0021-3624, ZDB-ID 4105369 - Vol. 13.1979, 2, pp. 285-301.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/04/27/corwin-edwards-77-dies-professor-of-economics/ab734667-9f9a-438a-b953-253a88bf67e3/
  2. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/04/27/corwin-edwards-77-dies-professor-of-economics/ab734667-9f9a-438a-b953-253a88bf67e3/
  3. ^ De Haas, Jacob Anton (1944): International cartels in the postwar world. New York [u. a.]: American Enterprise Assoc .; Allen, James S. (1946): World monopoly and peace. New York: International Publishers.
  4. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/04/27/corwin-edwards-77-dies-professor-of-economics/ab734667-9f9a-438a-b953-253a88bf67e3/
personal data
SURNAME Edwards, Corwin D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nevada , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1979
Place of death Dallas