Irma Adelman

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Irma G. Adelman , née Irma Glicman (born March 14, 1930 in Chernivtsi , Romania ; † February 5, 2017 ) was a Romanian-American economist and university professor .

family

Irma Adelman was born as Irma Glicman. She was the daughter of Raissa Glicman geb. Ettinger and Jacob Max Glicman, a merchant. The family immigrated to the United States in 1949. In 1950 Irma Glicman married the physicist Frank L. Adelman. In 1955, Irma Adelman became a US citizen.

The marriage to Frank L. Adelman resulted in a son. The marriage ended in divorce in 1979.

academic career

Irma Adelman was in 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley in trade economics with the dissertation The Monetary Theory of Leon Walras: A General equlibrium Analysis of Money for PhD doctorate.

Adelman taught at Berkeley between 1955 and 1958, first as a teaching associate , then as an instructor and finally as a lecturer with the rank of assistant professor .

Then Adelman moved to Mills College in Oakland (California) , where she taught from 1958 to 1959 as a visiting assistant professor . At Stanford University she was employed from 1959 to 1962 as an assistant professor . From 1962 to 1965 she was Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore ( Maryland ).

Further stations in her academic teaching activities were Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) ( Professor of Economics, 1966–1972) and the University of Maryland ( Professor of Economics and Agricultural Economics, 1972–1977).

From 1977 to 1978 Adelman was a professor at Leiden University .

From 1979 until her retirement in 1994 , Adelman was professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley , and since then has taught there as a professor at the Graduate School .

Activities in international organizations

From 1971 to 1972 Irma Adelman worked as a Senior Economist at the World Bank ( International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ).

Irma Adelman also worked in an advisory capacity at UNIDO from 1962 to 1963, at the United States Agency for International Development from 1963 to 1972 and the World Bank (from 1968), the International Labor Organization ( ILO), the OECD and the FAO .

She also worked as a consultant for the South Korean government.

Services

Irma Adelman is an important representative of development economics and developed the strategy of an industrialization based on demand from agriculture (agricultural-demand led industrialization, or ADLI for short ).

Fonts

  • Dynamic Properties of the Klein-Goldberger Model (with F. L. Adelman), 1959, in: Econometrica
  • Theories of Economic Growth and Development, 1961
  • An Econometric Analysis of Population Growth, 1963, in: AER
  • Foreign Aid and Economic Development: The case of Greece (with H. B. Chenery), 1966, in: REStat
  • The Theory and Design of Economic Development, 1966
  • Society, Politics and Economic Development: a quantitative approach (with C. T. Morris), 1967
  • Economic Growth and Social Equity in Developing Countries (with C. T. Morris), 1973
  • Strategies for Equitable Growth, 1974, in: Challenge
  • Development Economics: a reassessment of goals, 1975, in: AER
  • Growth, Income Distribution and Equity-Oriented Development Strategies, 1975, in: World Development
  • Policies for Equitable Growth (with C. T. Morris, and S. Robinson), 1976, in: World Development
  • Income Distribution Policy in Developing Countries: A case-study of Korea (with S. Robinson), 1977
  • Growth and Impoverishment in the Middle of the 19th Century (with C. T. Morris), 1978, in: World Development
  • Redistribution Before Growth: A strategy for developing countries, 1978
  • Beyond Export-Led Growth, 1984, in: World Development
  • A Poverty-Focused Approach to Development Policy, 1986 in Lewis (editor): Development Strategies Reconsidered
  • Confessions of an Incurable Romantic, 1988, in: BNLQR
  • Comparative Patterns of Economic Development, 1850-1914, 1988
  • The Relevance of ADLI for Sub-Saharan Africa (with Steven J. Vogel), 1992, in: Hans-Heinrich Bass et al .: African Development Perspectives Yearbook

Honors

Irma Adelman was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 1974. Irma Adelman is also a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association (Agricultural & Applied Economics Association / AAEA), the Econometric Society and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association .

In 1971 she was awarded the Order of the Bronze Tower by the Government of the Republic of Korea .

On the basis of a royal decision of May 3, 1977, she was appointed to the Cleveringa Chair at the University of Leiden as an associate professor for social and legal sciences . She taught on poverty and inequality from September 1, 1977 to September 1, 1978. She began her office on October 14, 1977 with the inaugural lecture Redistribution before growth. A strategy for developing countries (in German: First redistribution, then growth. A strategy for developing countries). She was also made a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Obituary (English) , accessed on April 14, 2017
  2. a b c d e f g h i j Prof Irma Adelman: Curriculum Vitae . In: University of California at Berkeley . Archived from the original on August 8, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
  3. Irma Adelmann and Steven J. Vogel: The Relevance of ADLI for Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Hans-Heinrich Bass et al .: African Development Perspectives Yearbook, Vol. 2, 1992, pp. 258-279
  4. Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A (PDF; 192 kB) American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  5. ^ Harm Beukers: Album Scholasticum academiae lugduno-batavae MCMLXXV-MCMLXXXIX (1975-1989). Leids University Fund, Leiden, 1991