Walter Albert Weisskopf
Walter Albert Weisskopf (born November 14, 1904 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 3, 1991 in Menlo Park , California ) was an Austrian-American economist.
Life
Walter Albert Weisskopf was the oldest child of the lawyer Emil Weisskopf and Marthe Gut and was of Jewish origin . His younger brother Victor Weisskopf became a physicist, his sister Edith Weisskopf-Joelson (1910–1983) a psychologist.
Weisskopf studied law in Vienna , Cambridge and Geneva and received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1927 . He then worked as a lawyer.
After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he managed to escape to the USA. He taught economics at the University of Omaha until 1943, after which he worked at Central YMCA College in Chicago and for the National War Labor Board. In 1945 he received a professorship in economics at the newly founded Roosevelt College in Chicago, which later became Roosevelt University .
Weisskopf headed the Department of Economics for almost twenty years before retiring in 1974. He was then a visiting professor at Stanford University between 1977 and 1979 .
Weisskopf published at the intersection of economics, philosophy and psychology.
Fonts (selection)
- Psychology of economics . Chicago, 1955
- Economic growth versus existential balance . Chicago, 1965
- Alienation and economics . New York, 1971
- Reflections on uncertainty in economics . 1984
literature
- Stephan Seiter: Weisskopf, Walter Albert . In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933 . Munich: KG Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-487-05752-2 , pp. 738-740
- Victor Weisskopf: The Joy of Insight. Passions of a Physicist . Basic Books, New York. 1991, ISBN 0-465-03678-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Albert Weisskopf in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weisskopf, Walter Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1991 |
| Place of death | Menlo Park , California |