Waddill Catchings
Waddill Catchings ( September 6, 1879 - December 31, 1967 ) was an American economist who, together with his Harvard classmates William Trufant Foster, wrote a series of economics textbooks that were very influential in the United States in the 1920s: Money (1923), Profits (1925), Business Without a Buyer (1927), The Road to Plenty (1928) and Progress and Plenty (1930).
In 1918 he joined Goldman Sachs ; In 1928, Catchings was the partner with the largest share in the company. The Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., which he founded . , a closed-end fund , went bankrupt during the stock market crash in 1929 .
literature
- William J. Barber: From new era to New Deal. Herbert Hoover, the economists, and American economic policy, 1921-1933 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] / New York 1985, ISBN 0-521-30526-8 .
- Joseph Dorfman : The Economic Mind in American Civilization . tape 4 . Viking Press, New York 1959, pp. 339-351 .
- Alan H. Gleason: Foster and Catchings. A reappraisal . In: Journal of Political Economy . tape 67 , no. 2 , April 1959, p. 156-172 , doi : 10.1086 / 258158 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William D. Cohan: Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. Penguin, 2012, ISBN 978-0-241-95406-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Catchings, Waddill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1879 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1967 |