Background
Polak, Jacques Jacobus was born on April 25, 1914 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Came to the United States, 1940. Son of James and Elisabeth F. Polak.
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Economic Theory and Financial Policy: Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak, 1994-2004
(As former Director of Research and a founding member of t...)
As former Director of Research and a founding member of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, Jacques J. Polak has advised theoreticians and policymakers worldwide. This collection brings together his most current writings, and is published under the auspices of the IMF. The hallmark of Dr. Polak's recent research has been his ability to draw on decades of personal experience and reflection to comprehend and describe the context for current policy debates. In the past decade, he has contributed much to the debates on international financial policy and the role of the IMF, and this volume brings together most of these recent papers to make them accessible to a broader audience.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765616149/?tag=2022091-20
Economic Theory and Financial Policy: Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak, 1994-2004
(As former Director of Research and a founding member of t...)
As former Director of Research and a founding member of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, Jacques J. Polak has advised theoreticians and policymakers worldwide. This collection brings together his most current writings, and is published under the auspices of the IMF. The hallmark of Dr. Polak's recent research has been his ability to draw on decades of personal experience and reflection to comprehend and describe the context for current policy debates. In the past decade, he has contributed much to the debates on international financial policy and the role of the IMF, and this volume brings together most of these recent papers to make them accessible to a broader audience.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463914113/?tag=2022091-20
Economic Theory and Financial Policy: The Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak (Economists of the Twentieth Century)
(This two-volume set brings together Polak's papers over t...)
This two-volume set brings together Polak's papers over the last 50 years in the fields of economics, econometrics and finance. The collection begins with his work on international and national business cycles, problems of international trade and balance of payments adjustment. Later sections examine exhange rates and their effect on the balance of payments, inflation and hyperinflation; the monetary approach to the balance of payments, a subject which the author pioneered in the International Monetary Fund; and international liquidity, with reference to the special drawing right. The final section features the author's essays on the international monetary system itself, including: the international co-ordination of national economic policies, the changes over time in the objectives of national policy-making in the main industrial countries and reform of the system.
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[(The Dynamics of Business Cycles )] [Author: Polak J J] [Mar-2007]
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Jacques Jacobus Polak
Jacques Jacobus POLAK, Dutch economist in the field of Bal
ance of Payments: Mechanisms of Adjustment; Exchange Rates; International Monetary Arrangements; Inflation and Deflation. Fellow, Econometric Society,1949-1950.
ance of Payments: Mechanisms of Adjustment; Exchange Rates; International Monetary Arrangements; Inflation and Deflation. Fellow, Econometric Society,1949-1950.
Education
Master of Arts in Economics, University Amsterdam, 1936. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University Amsterdam, 1937. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (honorary), Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1972.
Career
Assistant Financial Adviser, Economics Advisor, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Washington, D.C. 1944-1946. International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. 86, Chief, Statistics Division 1947-1948, Assistant Director Research Department 1948-1952, Deputy Director Research Department 1952-1958, Director 1958-1979. Economics Counsellor 1966-1979, Adviser to Manager Director 1980, Executive Director for Cyprus, Israel, Netherlands, Romania and Yugoslavia 1981-1986.
Senior Adviser, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Development Centre since 1986. President Per Jacobsson Foundation since 1987. Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University 1949-1950, since 1987.
George Washington University 1950-1955. Fellow, Econometric Society.
Achievements
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Fellow, Econometric Society,1949-1950.
Works
book
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Economic Theory and Financial Policy: The Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak (Economists of the Twentieth Century)
(This two-volume set brings together Polak's papers over t...)
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Economic Theory and Financial Policy: Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak, 1994-2004
(As former Director of Research and a founding member of t...)
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Economic Theory and Financial Policy: Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak, 1994-2004
(As former Director of Research and a founding member of t...)
- Economic Theory and Financial Policy: Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak,1994-2
- Thy Dynamics of Business Cycles. A study in economic fluctuations
- [(The Dynamics of Business Cycles )] [Author: Polak J J] [Mar-2007]
- Financial Policies and Development (Development Centre Studies)
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Economic Theory and Financial Policy: The Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak (Economists of the Twentieth Century)
Other Work
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Author: (with J. Tinbergen) The Dynamics of Business Cycles, 1950. Author: An International Economic System, 1953, Financial Policies and Development, 1989, Economic Theory and Financial Policy-The Selected Essays of Jacques J. Polak, 1994. Contributor articles to professional journals.
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Views
My doctoral dissertation and my initial work dealt with business cycles, including assisting Tinbergen in his 1939 League of Nations model on the United States economy. From there I moved toward international businesscycle aspects and other aspects of the international system. My subsequent work in the International Monetary Fund required a consolidation of monetary analysis with multiplier analysis and the theory of the balance of payments.
This had been touched upon
in Article No. 1 above and was given a reasonably satisfactory resolution in my book, An International Economic System, which has found widespread application, in the Fund and elsewhere. The design of the Special Drawing Rights began to occupy me in the mid- 1960s.
Broader issues relating to the role of the fund and international economic policy in general are taken up in more recent work, such as Article No. 6 above and my 1979 International Monetary Fund pamphlet.
Membership
Fellow Econometric Society, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (correspondent). Member Cosmos Club (Washington).
Connections
Married Josephine Weening, December 21, 1937. Children: H. Joost, Willem L.
- Father:
- James Polak
- Mother:
- Elisabeth F. Polak
- Spouse:
- Josephine Weening
- child:
- H. Joost Polak
- child:
- Willem L. Polak
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Born
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Died
February 26, 2010 (aged 95) -
Nationality
Netherlands
Education
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1936
University Amsterdam , Master of Arts in economics -
1937
University Amsterdam , Doctor of Philosophy in economics -
1972
Erasmus University , Doctor of Philosophy in economics
Career
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1937 - 1943
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1943 - 1944
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1943 - 1944
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1987 - 1997
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1987 - 1989
Awards
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Recipient National Guard Pierson medal in Economics, 1997.Recipient National Guard Pierson medal in Economics, 1997.