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Fritz Machlup was born on 15 December, 1902 in Wiener-Neustadt, Austria-Hungary, is an Austrian economist (1902–1983). Discover Fritz Machlup's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?
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15 December, 1902 |
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15 December |
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Wiener-Neustadt, Austria-Hungary |
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1983 |
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Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Hungary
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Fritz Machlup Height, Weight & Measurements
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Fritz Machlup Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Fritz Machlup worth at the age of 81 years old? Fritz Machlup’s income source is mostly from being a successful economist. He is from Hungary. We have estimated Fritz Machlup's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Fritz Machlup (December 15, 1902 – January 30, 1983) was an Austrian-American economist known for his work in information economics.
In 1920, he began studying economics at the University of Vienna, where he received his dr.rer.pol in 1923.
At Vienna, he attended lectures by Friedrich von Wieser, and participated in seminars organised by Ludwig von Mises.
In 1933, he moved to the United States, where he was a research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation from 1933 to 1935.
He was the Frank H. Goodyear Professor of Economics at the University at Buffalo from 1935 to 1947, and held visiting positions at various universities around the US, including Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford.
After the Nazi seizure of Austria in 1938, Machlup remained in the United States, and became a naturalised citizen of the US in 1940.
From 1947 to 1960, he was the Abram G. Hutzler Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, during which time he served as a research fellow at the Ford Foundation in 1957-58.
He was the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University between 1960 and 1971, where he also directed the International Finance Section.
Machlup also helped form the Bellagio Group in the early 1960s, and joined its direct successor, the Group of Thirty, in 1979.
Machlup was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961, and the American Philosophical Society in 1963.
His key work was The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States (1962), which is credited with popularizing the concept of the information society.
He was a consultant to the Treasury Department from 1965 to 1977.
He served as President of the American Economic Association in 1966, and was President of the International Economic Association from 1971 to 1974.
Shortly before his death, he completed the third in a series of ten planned volumes collectively called Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic Significance.
He was President of the International Economic Association from 1971 to 1974.
He was one of the first economists to examine knowledge as an economic resource, and is credited with popularising the concept of the information society.
Machlup was born to Jewish parents in Wiener-Neustadt, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
His father was a businessman who owned two factories that manufactured cardboard.
From 1971 till his death in 1983, he was a professor of economics at New York University.
