Background
Barber, William Joseph was born on January 13, 1925 in Abilene, Kansas, United States. Son of Ward Seymour Henry and Esther (Roop) Barber.
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In popular imagery, Herbert Hoover is often stereotyped as a 'do-nothing' president who offered only nineteenth-century slogans for the greatest economic catastrophe in twentieth-century American history. Nothing could be further from the truth. This study examines the properties of an innovative approach to economic growth and stability formulated by Hoover and his associates during his years as secretary of commerce (1921-9) and inspects his deployment of this strategy from the White House following the Great Crash in the autumn of 1929. Attention is then focused on Hoover's attempts to reformulate his macro-economic programme as the depression deepened in late 1931 and 1932. Archival materials provide arresting insights into Hoover's aspirations for a new institution - the Reconstruction Finance Corporations - as a vehicle for stimulating investment through a novel form of 'off-budget' financing. To complement the discussion of Hoover's theories of economic policy in their various manifestations, the views of contemporary economists on problems of the day are surveyed.
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The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland encompasses two distinct forms of economic organization: the western money economy introduced with European trade and settlement and the indigenous economy, based largely on traditional agriculture. By examining the interaction of the two economies, as well as considering certain political and social issues that have had a forceful impact on the Federation's economic life, the author fills a serious gap in our economic knowledge.
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More so than had any of his predecessors in the White House, Franklin D. Roosevelt drew heavily on the thinking of economists as he sought to combat the Great Depression, to mobilize the American economy for war, and to chart a new order for the postwar world. Designs within Disorder is an inquiry into the way divergent analytic perspectives competed for official favor and the manner in which the President opted to pick and choose among them when formulating economic policies.
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Barber, William Joseph was born on January 13, 1925 in Abilene, Kansas, United States. Son of Ward Seymour Henry and Esther (Roop) Barber.
AB, Harvard University, 1949. Bachelor, Oxford University, England, 1951. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1955.
Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1957. Master of Arts (honorary), Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1965. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 2005.
Assistant professor, Kansas State University, 1951-1952; lecturer, Balliol College lecturer, University of Oxford, 1956; member of faculty, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, since 1957; professor economics, Wesleyan University, since 1965; Andrews professor economics, Wesleyan University, 1972-1993; acting president, Wesleyan University, 1988; visiting professor economics, Yale University, 1982-1984. American secretary Rhodes Scholarship Trust, 1970-1980. Board electors Eastman professorship University of Oxford, 1970-1981.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, American Association Rhodes Scholars, History of Economics Society (president 1989-1990, Distinguished Fellow 2002), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sheila Mary Marr, April 16, 1955. Children: Thomas, John, Charles.