Background
Bloomfield, Arthur Irving was born on October 2, 1914 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Came to the United States, 1936, naturalized, 1945. Son of Samuel and Hanna Mai (Brown) Bloomfield.
Bloomfield, Arthur Irving was born on October 2, 1914 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Came to the United States, 1936, naturalized, 1945. Son of Samuel and Hanna Mai (Brown) Bloomfield.
Bachelor, McGill University, 1935. Master of Arts, McGill University, 1936. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1942.
Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1971. Doctorate in Economics (honorary), Han Yang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1987.
Economics, Senior Economics, Federal Reserve Bank New York, 1941-1952, 1953-1958. Consultant, United States Foreign Economics Administration, 1944-1945, United States Intermat. Coop. Administration 1949-1950.
Financial Adviser, United Nations Civil Assistance Command, United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency, Pusan, Korea, 1951-1952. Member, Foreign Aid Team Indochina, United States Mutual Security Administration 1953. Senior Economics, United States Commission Foreign Economics Policy, 1953.
Consultant, United States Foreign Operations Administration Indochina, 1954, United States International Coop. Administration Seoul, Korea, 1956, 1960. Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University 1961, Princeton University
1963.
Consultant, Ford Foundation, Malaysia, 1964. Visiting Professor, City University New York, 1965. Consultant, United States Agency International Development Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1966, 1967, 1968.
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, United States Department State, 1969-1978. Visiting Professor, University Melbourne, 1972. Consultant, Central Bank Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 1983.
Professor of Economics, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, since 1978. Editorial Board, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, 1978.
(Consisting of 8 essays written between 1938 and 1992, thi...)
My main interest during my professional career has been in problems of international finance, especially those relating to capital movements and exchange rates. And much of my research and writing, both at the Federal Reserve and at the University of Pennsylvania, has been in this broad area. In the late 1950s and in the 1960s my interests shifted from current problems to international financial history, and I wrote a number of monographs, I believe among the first of their kind, on the pre-1914 gold standard and its functioning.
More recently a considerable part of my research and writing has turned to the history of economic thought, especially nineteenth-century theories of trade and growth. Over the past thirty-five years as a whole I have also been on a large number of short-term assignments, many for the United States Government, in the Far East, Africa and the Caribbean, where I advised on the establishment of central banks and/or monetary policy. A number of published studies has emerged from these assignments.
Member American Association of University Professors, American Economics Association, Cosmos Club.
Married Dorothy E. Reese, January 18, 1987.