Don Patinkin papers, 1870-1995

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Summary

Creator:
Patinkin, Don
Abstract:
Don Patinkin (1922-1995) was a professor emeritus of economics and former president of Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim (Hebrew University). This collection documents his professional life through his correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Extent:
120 Linear Feet (80 boxes.)
Language:
Materials are primarily in English; some material in Hebrew.
Collection ID:
RL.01000

Background

Scope and content:

The bulk of this collection dates from Patinkin's years as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Chicago (beginning in 1942) and span his entire career, ending with his death in 1995. However, there is much research material that was produced earlier by others, chiefly from the 1930s. Types of material represented include correspondence; manuscripts; course material, including lectures, seminar notes, syllabi, student papers, and exams; his student notebooks; committee and other organizational files; printed material, such as articles; book contracts; academic files, including recommendations and reports; some financial and legal files; invitations; clippings; and a few photographs.

The main subjects of interest are related chiefly to Keynesian economics, but also to the neoclassical theory of value, equilibrium economics, theories of unemployment, and general monetary economics. Other subjects include the teaching of economics, the histories of Chicago University's School of Economics and Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim (Hebrew University), the Israeli economy, Israeli agriculture, and social conditions in Israel and adjacent areas. Many of these subjects are discussed in Patinkin's major publications, whose drafts can also be found in the collection: these titles include Money, Interest, and Prices: An Integration of Monetary and Value Theory, Keynes' Monetary Thought: A Study of Its Development, Anticipations of the General Theory and Other Essays on Keynes, Essays on and in the Chicago Tradition, and The Israel Economy: The First Decade.

Correspondents represent almost every major economist of the 20th century, but the most prominent include Kenneth Arrow, Milton Friedman, Roy Harrod, John Hicks, Frank Knight, Harry Johnson, Simon Kuznets, Franco Modigliani, Dennis Robertson, Paul Samuelson, James Tobin, and Jacob Viner; Duke University faculty are represented by Craufurd Goodwin, Neil DeMarchi, and Roy Weintraub.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1922
Born in Chicago, IL
1933-1943
Received Hebrew education at Chicago Yeshiva (Talmudic Academy)
1943
BA, University of Chicago.
1945
MA, University of Chicago
1946
"Mercantilism and the Readmission of the Jews to England," Jewish Social Studies
1946-1948
Various teaching positions, University of Chicago; rose to Assistant Professor of Economics
1947
PhD, University of Chicago
1948-1949
Associate Professor, University of Illinois
1949
Immigrated to Israel
1949-1952
Professor, Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim
1956
Money, Interest, and Prices: An Integration of Monetary and Value Theory
1956-1972
Director of Research, Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research
1957-67
Member, Bank of Israel Advisory Council
1959
The Israel Economy: The First Decade
1959
Rothschild Prize
1960-1964
Member, National Council for Research and Development, Israel
1970
Israel Prize
1970-1975
Member, Council for Higher Education, Israel
1973-1974
Chair, Subcommittee on the Government Budget, Israel's Emergency Economic Advisory Council
1974
President, Econometric Society
1975
Honorary member, American Economic Association
1976
President, Israel Economic Association
1976
Keynes' Monetary Thought: A Study of Its Development
1981
(Duke University Press) Essays On and In the Chicago Tradition
1982
(Duke University Press) Anticipations of the General Theory and Other Essays on Keynes
1983-1986
President, Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim
1995
Died in Jerusalem
Acquisition information:
The Don Patinkin papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library as gifts between 1995-2000.
Processing information:

Processed by D. Carson, C. Fernandez, J. Herron, Paula Jeannet, J. Krainik and S. Meardon, September 1997.

Encoded by Jackie Dean.

Within each subseries an attempt was made to organize the papers by date. This proved difficult because papers from several years may be gathered in a single folder, and the effort to organize the papers stopped short of rearranging materials within and between folders. One solution was to organize the papers by date of the book or journal article to which they were intended to contribute, and this was tried particularly in the University of Chicago School of Economics series and Keynes and the History of Monetary Theory series. This solution presented yet another problem, however: many of the papers represent research out of which sprung many articles over a long period of time. For this reason, the third (chronological) level of organization is less reliable.

Arrangement:

The Don Patinkin papers are arranged into six series: University of Chicago School of Economics, General Monetary Theory, Keynes and the History of Monetary Theory, Correspondence, Israel and Hebrew Material, and Miscellaneous.

Within each of the first three series, files are further organized into three subseries: Raw Material, Course Material, and Manuscripts and Notes. In general, Raw Material includes photocopied manuscripts of other economists, raw data, and other resources which Patinkin used in his research. The term "raw materials" was the name he invented for such research materials. Course Material includes syllabi, lecture notes, and photocopied readings which he used in his courses. Manuscripts and Notes includes reprints and various stages of drafts of the many articles and books Patinkin wrote, and typewritten or handwritten notes he made in the course of his research.

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