Theodore Geiger

Background

Theodore Geiger was born in 1915 in New York, New York, United States. He was thirteen when his father died.

Education

Theodore Geiger graduated from the City College of the City University of New York in 1935. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University in 1956.

Career

Theodore Geiger taught history and economics at Columbia University from 1939 to 1941. During the war years, he was a senior economist for the War Production Board and also did intelligence work for the United States Army. He continued government work after the war, including offering his expertise to the United States Mission for Economic Affairs in London and, from 1948 to 1950, developing policies with the Economic Cooperation Administration. In 1950, he joined the National Planning Association (now the National Policy Association), a think tank that works with business and civic leaders. During this time, Geiger conducted research for the United States Agency for International Development. He remained in this work through the 1970s and later served on a State Department committee on international development from 1977 until 1992.

Geiger joined the faculty at Georgetown University in 1970 as a part-time instructor; then, from 1980 to 1995, he became a full-time lecturer on international politics. An active writer, Geiger published over a dozen books concerning economic and political relations abroad. Among these are The General Electric Company in Brazil (1961), Transatlantic Relations in the Prospect of an Enlarged European Community (1970), and The Future of the International System: The United States and the World Political Economy (1988).

Achievements

• Theodore Geiger was an authority on economic history and international relations and was especially instrumental in helping with America's economic policies with European nations after World War II. He spent three decades at the think tank, writing research papers for the State Department, the United States Agency for International Development, and other political bodies and organizations. His books received high praise from colleagues.

Works

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  • The Economy of the American People 1958
  • TWA's Services to Ethiopia 1959
  • The General Electric Company in Brazil 1961
  • The Conflicted Relationship: The West and the Transformation of Asia, Africa, and Latin America 1967
  • The Fortunes of the West: The Future of the Atlantic Nations 1973
  • Welfare and Efficiency 1978
  • The Future of the International System: The United States and the World Political Economy 1988

Membership

Theodore Geiger was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Economic Association, the Committee on Atlantic Studies, the Society for International Development, Public Choice Society, World Future Society. He was a fellow of the African Studies Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Connections

In 1941 Theodore Geiger married Frances Moed Geiger. They had two children: Nancy Ghiglione and Thomas Geiger.

Spouse:

Frances Moed Geiger

Daughter:

Nancy Ghiglione

Son:

Thomas Geiger

References

• Contemporary Authors
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