Gerhard Colm papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 9100
Subjects: Money; Economics; United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee; United States; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means; Study and teaching; Faculty; Economic policy; George Washington University; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance; New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)
Description: Correspondence, articles, congressional testimony, reports, lectures, speeches, conference papers, book reviews, notes, course outlines, bibliographies, background material, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Colm's career as an economic policy advisor and professor of economics at the New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y., and George Washington University, Washington, D.C.  Includes material on economic theory; participation in various task forces, conferences, and symposia; appearances before the House Ways and Means Committee, Joint Economic Committee, and Senate Committee on Finance, and other congressional and governmental committees; and Colm's contribution to the German currency reform program following World War II.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, National Planning Association, 1970.

Economist.   Immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1933; naturalized as a U.S. citizen, 1939.

Collection material in English.

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