Tibor Scitovsky papers, 1910-2002, bulk dates 1973-2002

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Summary

Creator:
Scitovsky, Tibor
Abstract:
Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002) was the Eberle Professor of Economics, Emeritus at Stanford University. This collection primarily documents his professional life through his correspondence and writings. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Extent:
1.2 Linear Feet (Two boxes.)
Language:
Material in English.
Collection ID:
RL.01153

Background

Scope and content:

This collection mainly documents the later years of Scitovsky's life through his correspondence and writings.

The Correspondence, Financial, and Personal series consists primarily of routine professional correspondence to Scitovsky from academic institutions, publishers, colleagues, and friends. Many concern publications or invitations to events. There are a number of brief but interesting exchanges with other economists, including Moses Abramovitz, Benjamin M. Friedman, Paul Samuelson, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, and Robert Solow.

The Writings and Speeches series contains material on selected writings and themes that Scitovsky worked on in his later years and includes clippings, drafts, articles, and numerous notes. Major academic works represented include The Joyless Economy and articles on market economies, inflation, growth and stagnation, consumer satisfaction (and dissatisfaction), marketing, affluence, and violence and boredom as social ills. Many of his other major works and earlier research are not represented. A series of photographs of Scitovky's family and home serve as companions to his unpublished memoirs, which detail life in northern Hungary for a family of nobility, as well as historical events in Hungary, France, and England, particularly before and during World War II. The memoirs also offer a detailed narrative of Scivovsky's emigration from Hungary to the US in the 1940s, as well as an account of the student protests in Paris in the 1960s.

The Printed Material series contains many of Scitovsky's reprinted articles and may prove to be the most useful series for researchers interested in his work.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1910
Born in Budapest, Hungary
1932
JD, University of Budapest
1938
MSc., London School of Economics
1939
Arrived in US as Leon Traveling Fellow
1943-1946
Served in US Army
1945
Bronze Medal, US Army
1946-1958
Recruited to Stanford University by Bernard Haley
1951
Welfare and Competition: The Economics of a Fully Employed Economy
1958-1968
Professor, University of California, Berkeley
1965
Fellow, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
1968-1970
Heinz Professor of Economics, Yale University
1969
Money and the Balance of Payments
1970-1976
Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Industry and Trade in Some Developing Countries: A Comparative Study
1976
The Joyless Economy: an Inquiry into Human Satisfaction and Consumer Dissatisfaction
1999
Published first part of his memoir in Hungarian Quarterly, Vol. 40
2002, June 1
Died in Palo Alto, CA
Acquisition information:
The Tibor Scitovsky papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library as gifts between 2003-2004.
Processing information:

Processed by Monecia Samuels, June 2005.

Encoded by Monecia Samuels and Paula Jeannet, March 2006.

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2003-0027 and 2004-0001.

Arrangement:

The Tibor Scitovsky papers are arranged into three series: Correspondence, Financial, and Personal Material; Writings and Speeches; and Printed Material.

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