Charles P. Kindleberger
| Charles Kindleberger | |
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Charles P. Kindleberger ca.1973
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| Born |
Charles Poor Kindleberger, II October 12, 1910 New York, New York |
| Died | July 7, 2003 (aged 92) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Cause of death | stroke |
| Other names | Charles P. Kindleberger |
| Education | BA University of Pennsylvania PhD Columbia University |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Years active | 1934–1996 |
| Employer | United States Treasury, MIT |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Miles Kindleberger |
| Children | Charles P. Kindleberger III, Richard S. Kindleberger, Sarah Kindleberger, E. Randall Kindleberger |
| Awards | Bronze Star, Legion of Merit |
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| Doctoral advisor |
Henry Parker Willis James Waterhouse Angell |
| Doctoral students |
Robert Mundell Peter Temin Jagdish Bhagwati |
Charles Poor "Charlie" Kindleberger (October 12, 1910 – July 7, 2003) was an economic historian and author of over 30 books. His 1978 book Manias, Panics, and Crashes, about speculative , was reprinted in 2000 after the dot-com bubble. He is well known for hegemonic stability theory. He has been referred to as "the master of the genre" on financial crisis by The Economist.
Kindleberger was born in New York City on October 12, 1910. He graduated from the Kent School in 1928, the University of Pennsylvania in 1932, and received a PhD from Columbia University in 1937.
During the summer of 1931, he traveled to Europe and attended a seminar hosted by Salvador de Madariaga, but, when the latter was appointed Spanish Ambassador to the United States, Kindleberger attended lectures at the Institute for International Studies in Geneva led by Sir Alfred Zimmern.
While writing his thesis, Kindleberger was employed temporarily in the international division of United States Treasury under the direction of Harry Dexter White. He then joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York full-time (1936–1939). Subsequently, he worked at the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland (1939-1940), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1940–1942). During World War II, he served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). From 1945 to 1947 he was Chief of the Division of Economic Affairs of Germany and Austria at the United States Department of State.
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