Karl Eman Pribram

Karl Eman Pribram (also Karl Přibram ; born December 2, 1877 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died July 15, 1973 in Washington, DC ) was an Austrian economist . He is a member of the Pribram medical family .

Life

Pribram studied law at the University of Prague and received his doctorate there in 1900. iur. He then dealt with economics and in 1914 was appointed associate professor for economics at the University of Vienna . From 1921 to 1928 he was head of the statistical department at the International Labor Office in Geneva . In June 1928 he accepted the call to the professorship for economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main, which had been completed by A. Voigt's retirement . In 1933 he lost his chair due to his Jewish origins. In 1934 Pribram emigrated to the USA . There he was professor at the American University in Washington, DC from 1939 to 1952

Wage protection of industrial workers under Austrian law (1904)
Normal working day in commercial operations and in the mining industry in Austria (1906)
History of Austrian industrial policy from 1740 to 1860 , Vienna a. Leipzig 1907
The first Austrian patent law , Vienna 1910
Development of the individualistic social philosophy (1912)
Problems of International Labor Statistics (1925)
Unification of Social Insurance (1925)
World-unemployment and Its Problems in Unemployment as a world-problem (1931) by John Maynard Keynes , Karl Pribram, and Edward Phelan ; edited by Philip Quincy Wright
Equilibrium concept and business cycle statistics (1934), Institut International de statistique, 22nd section, London.
Cartel Problems; an Analysis of Collective Monopolies in Europe with American Application (1935)
Social Insurance in Europe and Social Security in the United States: a Comparative Analysis (1937)
Merit Rating and Unemployment Compensation (1937)
Principles Underlying Disqualifications for Benefits in Unemployment Compensation (1938)
Foreign Trade Policy of Austria (1945)
Conflicting Patterns of Thought (1949)
Patterns of Economic Reasoning. In: American Economic Review vol. 43 (2), Supplement (1953)
A History of Economic Reasoning (1983), from the estate and incompletely published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, German history of economic thinking : 2 volumes (paperback), Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1998, ISBN 351828956X

Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 927f.
Günther Chaloupek: Přibram, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 718 f. ( Digitized version ).
Mark Perlman: An Essay on Karl Pribram's a History of Economic Reasoning. In: Revue économique , vol. 38 (1987) no. 1 (January), pp. 171-176
Heribert Sturm: Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands , Vol. III, Munich 2000, p. 313
Klemens Wittebur: The German Sociology in Exile. 1933-1945 , Münster; Hamburg: Lit., 1991 (dissertation from 1989), p. 71.
Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae , Vol. 1, Dortmund 1995, p. 171
Günther Chaloupek : Pribram, Karl. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 2: Leichter branch. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 543-546.