Background
STOCKING, George W. was born in 1892 in Clarendon, Texas, United States of America.
STOCKING, George W. was born in 1892 in Clarendon, Texas, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts University Texas, 1918, 1921. Doctor of Philosophy Columbia University, 1925.
George Stocking’s main contributions were in the area where economics, law and policy overlap: industrial organisation, market behaviour, and antitrust policy. He was widely known for his strong belief in the virtues of open competition and the diffusion of
power. He held ‘Populist’ attitudes toward large corporations and market concentration.
His work dealt with the international aspects of monopoly and cartels as well as with the origins of monopoly and oligopoly. His advocacy of structural reorganisation of monopoly markets was also developed in a number of articles and in testimony before government agencies, while other publications analysed several important antitrust cases. Stocking also contributed to the economics of international oil in his last important work, which examined the role of major oil companies in the Middle East during the critical periods before an after World War II.
Assistant Professor, Professor of Economics, University Texas, 1925-1926, 1926-1947. Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, 1947-1963. Fellow, Fund Research Social Science, 1928-1929.
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1932. Technical Adviser, United States Labor Advisory Board, 1933-1935. Member, Chairman, Petroleum Labor Policy Board, NRA, 1933-1934, 1934-1935.
Chairman, National Longshoremen’s Mediation Board,
6. Member, Advisory Council Security Board, 1937-1938. Assistant Director,
Bureau Research and Statistics, 1940.
Economics Consultant, United States Department Justice, 1941-1944. Member, National Defense Mediation Board, 1941. Director, Fuels Division Office Price Administration, 1942.
Member, War Labor Board, 1943, National Railway Labor Panel, 1943-1946. Director, Federal Reserve Bank, San Antonio, Texas, 1943-1946.
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Served with United States Army, 1918. Guggenheim research fellow, 1932. Member American (president 1958), Southern (president 1952) economics associations, American Association University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Tau Omega.
Club: Cosmos.
Married Dorothe Reichard, June 23, 1923 (deceased.; married second, Anne Fuendeling, September 1, 1973. Children: George Ward, Myron Ralph, Sybil Ruth, Cynthia.