Thomas VIETORISZ

Background

VIETORISZ, Thomas was born in 1926 in Budapest, Hungary.

Education

Absolutorium (Chemistry Engineering), Technical University, Budapest, 1946. Master of Science (Chemistry Engineering) Doctor of Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1948, 1956.

Career

Association Director, Economics Development- elopment Training Program, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, 1957-1960. Research Staff Member, T. J. Watson Research Center, International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, 1961-1963. Visiting Professor, University Cornell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1970-1981.

Professor of Economics, New School Social Research, New York City, since 1970.

Achievements

• Consultant, United Nations, World Bank, Organisation for Economic Company-operation and Development, Inter-American Bank, United States Government, United States State Governments, Governments of Mexico and Puerto Rico, and numerous private firms and organisations, 1964-1981.

Works

• book

  • A proposed investment program for the economic development of central Harlem: Final report of the Center for Economic Planning, the New School for Social Research to the Harlem Commonwealth Council

Views

Methods of strategic planning: industrial planning (chemical industries, engineering industries). Regional planning (Third World countries, metropolitan areas). Mathematical planning models (linear and integer programming, simulation).

Political economy of development and planning in industrially advanced countries, Third World areas, and socialist economies.

Interests

• 113 Economic Planning Theory and Policy.