Randall Weston Hinshaw

Background

Randall Weston Hinshaw was born on May 9, 1915, in La Grange, Illinois, United States. He was a son of Virgil Goodman Hinshaw and Eva Hinshaw (maiden name Piltz).

Education

Randall Weston Hinshaw received his Bachelor of Arts at Occidental College, Los Angeles, in 1937. In a couple of years, he earned his Master of Arts.

He pursued his studies at Princeton University where he obtained his Ph. D. in 1944.

Career

Randall Weston Hinshaw started his career from a teaching post at Harvard University where he taught economics from 1942 to 1943. Early in his career, he also worked as an economist in the Division of International Finance on the Federal Reserve Board for nine years beginning in 1943. From 1946 to 1947, Hinshaw served as an assistant professor of economics at Amherst College. In 1952 he joined the Mission to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (also known as NATO) and European Regional Organizations in Paris, France, as a special adviser on international financial policy, and held this post till 1957.

Three years later, Hinshaw began a lengthy association with Claremont Graduate School firstly as an economics professor, and serving as the department chair from 1967 to 1969 and again for a two-year stint ten years later. He became professor emeritus in 1982. He directed and chaired the Bologna-Claremont International Monetary Conference Series, which began in 1967.

During his career, Randall Weston Hinshaw also served as a visiting professor at many schools including Oberlin College, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, and the University of California.

In addition to teaching, he wrote and edited numerous books on economics, including ‘The European Community and American Trade’, ‘International Monetary Issues after the Cold War’, ‘The World Economy in Transition’, ‘Inflation as a Global Problem’, ‘Stagflation: An International Problem’, ‘Global Monetary Anarchy: Perspectives on Restoring Stability’, and ‘Global Economic Priorities: The Hamburg Dialogue’.

Achievements

• Randall Weston Hinshaw was an accomplished economist and educator. He was a recipient of the South East Club fellowship from Princeton University.

Works

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  • Global Monetary Anarchy: Perspectives on Restoring Stability

    (In a world of spiralling inflation and unemployment, thre...)

    1981
  • The World Economy in Transition: What Leading Economists Think

    (This work brings together thoughts, arguments, and analys...)

    1996
  • International Monetary Issues after the Cold War: A Conversation Among Leading Economists

    (A book edited by Randall Weston Hinshaw)

    1993
  • Monetary Reform and the Price of Gold: Alternative Approaches
  • The European Community and American trade: A study in Atlantic economics and policy 1965
  • Global Economic Priorities 1983

Membership

Randall Weston Hinshaw was a member of the American Economic Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• astronomy

Connections

Randall Weston Hinshaw married Pearl Electa Stevens on June 19, 1949. The marriage produced three children named Frederic Randall, Robert Louis, and Elisabeth Mary.

Father:

Virgil Goodman Hinshaw

Mother:

Eva Hinshaw

Spouse:

Pearl Electa Stevens

Daughter:

Elisabeth Mary Hinshaw

Son:

Robert Louis Hinshaw

Son:

Frederic Randall Hinshaw