Background
Gottfried Haberler was born on July 20, 1900, in Purkersdorf, Austria.
Gottfried Haberler in youth
Gottfried Haberler
Gottfried Haberler
Haberler studied economics at the University of Vienna under Friedrich von Wieser and Ludwig von Mises, receiving his doctorate in 1925.
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Gottfried Haberler's contributions to the field of international trade and finance began in the 1920s with a seminal paper on comparative costs.
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Gottfried Haberler was born on July 20, 1900, in Purkersdorf, Austria.
Haberler studied economics at the University of Vienna under Friedrich von Wieser and Ludwig von Mises, receiving his doctorate in 1925. He further studied in England and the United States.
After graduation, Gottfried taught economics and statistics at the University of Vienna from 1928 to 1936. He also served as a consultant to the League of Nations during his last two years in Vienna. He was a member of the famous Mises-Kreis, the distinguished circle of economists, sociologists, and philosophers who regularly participated in the private seminar organized by Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. The formative influence of Mises and the Austrian school has always been strongly evident in Haberler's theoretical work and in his policy advocacy, although this influence has at times been obscured by Haberler's vigorous rejection of some aspects of the Austrian theory of the business cycle and his opposition, in later writings, to the international gold standard.
Haberler emigrated to the United States in 1936 to join the faculty of Harvard University as professor of economics. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1943.
In 1957 the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade commissioned a report on the terms of trade for primary commodities, and Haberler was appointed Chairman. The report found that there was a decline in the terms of trade for primary producers, since 1955 commodity prices were said to have fallen by 5%, while industrial prices rose by 6%. Haberler's report seems to prefigure the report written by Raúl Prebisch for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1964, but when Prebisch's report came out Haberler denounced it. His particular disagreement was with the idea that there was a systematic long-term (secular) decline in terms of trade.
From 1971, when he retired from Harvard, Haberler was Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a centrist-Republican think tank in Washington, D.C.
Haberler wrote more than twenty books over his career, at least a third of them published originally in his native language. Most of these have since been translated into English. His final work, Judging Economic Policy: The Selected Writings of Gottfried Haberler, was published posthumously in 1997.
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1986(Three studies in the effects of labour monopoly power on ...)
1972(Reflections on the Microfoundation of Macroeconomic Theor...)
1985(An Analysis of Economic Change and Policies)
1974(Selected Writings Of Gottfried Haberler)
1997