HET: Wolfgang Stolper

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Wolfgang F. Stolper, 1912-2002.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Wolfgang Stolper was the son of the liberal economics journalist Gustav Stolper, editor of the Deutsche Wirtschaft magazine based in Berlin, Germany. In 1933, the Stolper family emigrated to the United States.

Wolfgang Stolper enrolled at Harvard University, obtaining his Ph.D. under Joseph Schumpter in 1938. He stayed on as instructor at Harvard for a little while, and it was during this time that he worked with former student Paul Samuleson on the famous "Stolper-Samuelson theorem" on the impact of trade of income distribution (1941).

Stolper taught for a while at Swarthmore from 1941, before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1949.

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Major Works of Wolfgang F. Stolper

"Protection and Real Wages", with P.A. Samuelson, 1941, RES [pdf]
"The National Product of East Germany", 1959, Kyklos.
Germany Between East and West, 1960
The Structure of the East German Economy, 1960
"National Accounting in East Germany", 1961, in P. Deane, editor, Studies in Social and Financial Accounting, Income and Wealth [pdf]
Planning Without Facts, 1966
"Planning a Free Economy: Germany 1945-1960' with K.W. Roskamp, 1979, ZfGS/JITE [pdf]
Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of a Private Man, 1994.

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Resources on Wolfgang Stolper

"Protection and Real Wages: the history of an idea" by R.W. Jones [pdf]
"The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem" by J.P. Neary. 2004 [pdf]
"Protection and Real Wages: The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem" by Rachel McCulloch, 2005 [pdf]
Stolper obituary at NY Times, 2002
Stolper obituary at newsletter of International Joseph Schumpeter Society [pdf]
Guide to Stolper papers at Duke [online
Stolper page at University of Michigan histroy project [online]
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