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Adolf Weber (December 29, 1876 – January 5, 1963) was a German economist.

Life

Adolf Weber was born at Mechernich near Bonn.[1] He was professor at the University of Cologne, the University of Breslau, the University of Frankfurt and the University of Munich.[2] Weber was a friend of Ludwig von Mises, and broadly associated with the Austrian School. He criticised the economic policy of Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht in an article 'Is Schacht right?'[2]

Works

  • Depositenbanken und Spekulationsbanken : ein Vergleich deutschen und englischen Bankwesens, 1902.
  • Der Kampf zwischen Kapital und Arbeit; Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbände in Deutschland, 1920
  • Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre: eine Einführung, 1928.
  • In defence of capitalism, 1930. Translated by H. J. Stenning from the German Ende des Kapitalismus.
  • Geld, Banken, Börsen, 1939.
  • Deutsches wirtschaftsleben, 1941
  • Kurzgefasste Volkswirtschaftspolitik, 1942.
  • Weltwirtschaft, 1947.
  • Marktwirtschaft und Sowjetwirtschaft; ein Vergleich, 1949.
  • Sowjetwirtschaft und Weltwirtschaft, 1959

References

  1. ^ Ludwig H. Mai (1975). Men and ideas in economics: a dictionary of world economists, asd past and present. Littlefield, Adams. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-8226-0284-2. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  2. ^ a b Leopold Schwarzschild (15 November 2010). Chronicle of a Downfall: Germany 1929-1939. I.B.Tauris. p. 218. ISBN 978-1-84885-289-1. Retrieved 25 April 2013.


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