George Katona

George Katona , d. i. György Katona ; also: Georg Katona (born November 6, 1901 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died June 18, 1981 in Berlin ) was an American psychologist and economist of Austro-Hungarian origin.

Life

Katona emigrated from communist Hungary in 1919 and studied psychology at the University of Göttingen . He received his doctorate in 1921 under Georg Elias Müller . He emigrated to the USA in 1933 after the start of the Nazi era . At the end of his life he was from the Free University of Berlin with the honorary doctorate awarded and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences added.

Katona was one of the co-editors of the magazine Der Deutsche Volkswirt , Berlin , from 1926 to 1933 , and from 1929 to 1933 German correspondent for the Wall Street Journal .

In the 1940s he developed the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index , which measures the propensity to consume in private households in the USA.

Fonts (selection)

• Experimental contributions to the teaching of the relationships between achromatic and chromatic visual processes. Leipzig: Barth, 1921
• Psychology of relational apprehension and comparison. Leipzig: Barth, 1924
• Organizing and Memorizing Studies in the Psychology of Learning and Teaching. New York, 1940
• War Without Inflation, The Psychological Approach to Problems of War Economy. New York, 1942
• Price control and business. Bloomington, Ind .: Principia Press, 1945
• Psychological Analysis of Economic Behavior. New York-London-Toronto 1951
• Contributions of survey methods to economics. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1954
• The behavior of consumers and entrepreneurs: on the relationships between economics, psychology and social psychology. Tübingen: Mohr, 1960
• The power of the consumer. Düsseldorf: Econ-Verl., 1962
• The mass consumption society. New York, NY [u. a.]: McGraw-Hill, 1964
• The mass consumption. Vienna: Econ-Verl., 1965
• Two ways to prosperity. Düsseldorf: Econ-Verl., 1971
• Psychological economics. New York, NY [u. a.]: Elsevier, 1975
• A new economic era. New York, NY [u. a.]: Elsevier, 1978

literature

• The 1979 Founders Symposium, Institute for Social Research, Honoring George Katona. June 1980
• Katona, George - Büning, Herbert u. Strümpel, Burkhard et al. Lämmert, Eberhard u. Zahn, Ernst u. German, Karl W. u. Fleischmann, Gerd u. Schmölders, Günter: Honorary doctorate from Prof. Dr. George Katona - Ann Arbor, Michigan June 15, 1981. Commemorative. Published by the press and information office of the FU, Berlin. (= FU Berlin / Department of Economics, information from teaching and research 1/1982). Berlin, printing: Central University Printing Office 1981.
• Gerhard Scherhorn : Katona, George. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 307-310.
• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 599

Web links

• Literature by and about George Katona in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about George Katona  in the German Digital Library
• George Katona
• Psychology of relational apprehension and comparison
• Austrian sociologists in exile 1933-1945

Individual evidence

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