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Josef Steindl, 1912-1993 

Austrian Post-Keynesian economist of the Kaleckian vein.

Josef Steindl was educated in Vienna, in the Austrian School tradition under Richard Strigl.  In 1935, Steindl worked in Morgenstern's institute for business cycle research until 1938, when the Nazi Anschluss prompted Steindl to look for a way out of Austria.  He obtained a position as a research lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford in 1938.  Steindl's principal intellectual influence was Michal Kalecki.  Steindl worked alongside Kalecki at the Oxford Institute for Statistics from 1940 to 1944.  Steindl returned to Vienna in 1950, returning to his position at the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO).

 

  

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Major Works of Josef Steindl

  • Small and Big Business: Economic problems of the size of firms, 1945.
  • Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism, 1952 [pdf]
  • "On Maturity in Capitalist Economy", 1964, in Problems of Economic Dynamics and Planning
  • Random Processes and the Growth of Firms, 1965
  • "Stagnation Theory and Stagnation Policy", 1979, Cambridge JE
  • "Reflections on the Present State of Economics", 1984, BNLQR
  • "From Stangation in the 1930s to Slow Growth in the 1970s", 1989, in Berg, editor, Political Economy in the 20th Century
  • Economic Papers, 1990.

 
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Resources on Josef Steindl

  • Josef Steindl: Life and Work website in Austria (papers, etc.)
  • Steindl obituary by G.C. Harcourt, at the Independent, 1993
  • "The Political Economy of Josef Steindl", by Tibor Scitovsky, 1994, RoPE.
  • "Josef Steindl’s Work and Economic Policy" by Gunther Chaloupek, 2003 [doc]
  • "Josef Steindl: An economist of his time" by Nina Shapiro, 2012, PSLQR [pdf]
  • "Josef Steindl's Life and Work in Austria", by Alois Guger and Ewald Walerskirchen 2012, PSLQR [pdf]
  • "Secular Stagnation or Stagnation Policy? Steindl after Summers" by Eckhard Hein, 2015, Levy Institute [pdf]
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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