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226:. While there he taught a course in International Economics in which John Nash was a student. Nash indicates that it was the only course in economics he took before he began graduate study in mathematics at Princeton where he wrote his pathbreaking dissertation at Princeton on game theory and bargaining. Nash credits Hoselitz with influencing his thinking on bargaining with the example of countries negotiating and bargaining on tariffs. 304:. Its first issue appeared in March, 1952. Initially established as essentially a newsletter for the Center for Research on Economic Development and Cultural Change, it went on under Hoselitz's 33-year editorship to become one of the leading journals in the field of economic development. The journal focused on developing countries in the midst of on-going economic concerns with postwar reconstruction and emerging 315:" of thought. His employment of Parson's pattern variables and his focus on cultural change contrasted to the Chicago department's emphasis on universal maximizing behavior. Hoselitz's writings acknowledge the likely possibility that top-down planners will be required to direct the course of economic development for under-developed economies, in contrast to the Chicago department's usual preference for 292:
factors such as kinship and religion for assigning status and rewards; b) developed countries tend to use universalistic standards, for example in use of the rule of law, whereas developing countries tend more to act more on particularistic, personalized relationships such as caste systems or kinship
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In the early 1950s, Hoselitz's work began to focus on the contrasts in social organization between economically advanced and economically backward countries. He wanted to develop a social science framework for examining the determinants of economic growth. The framework he developed drew heavily on
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Hoselitz made several distinctions between developed and underdeveloped countries based on these pattern variables: a) developed countries tend to be achievement-oriented, based on objective measures such as educational attainment, while developing countries have used
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Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change. 1952. "A Report to the Committee on Economic Growth. Social Science Research Council." In Bert F. Hoselitz papers, Box 4. Special Collections Research Center. The University of Chicago
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In linking together the two topics of economic development and cultural change, the founders and staff of the Center took the view that cooperative, interdisciplinary research would be required to address the relevant issues.
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between 1928 and 1938. He left Vienna when Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, as did his father Bela and his brother Kurt. After attempting to go to China, he went to England. In 1942, Hoselitz's mother was murdered in the
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Hoselitz addressed topics in economic policy and intellectual history including the economics of war and military occupation, urbanization, stage theories of economic growth, and the entrepreneur. With
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tensions. It was also distinctive among development journals in emphasizing application of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives rather than simple advocacy or ad hoc generalizations.
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Hoselitz went back to the University of Chicago in 1948. In 1951 he helped found the university's Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change and founded the center's journal
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was one of the founding participants in the Center for Research on Economic Development and Cultural Change, and Johnson succeeded Hoselitz as editor of
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at Yale. In 1945, he took a position as instructor in social sciences and then in 1946 as assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago.
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networks; c) developed economies are characterized by extensive division of labor while developing economies tend to have a less-specialized workforce.
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Bert F. Hoselitz (1963) "Main Concepts in the Analysis of the Social Implications of Technical Change" in Bert F. Hoselitz and Wilbert E. Moore eds.
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Department of Economics Records, University of Chicago. Box 41, Folder 2. Special Collections Research Center. The University of Chicago Library.
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To facilitate "exploratory discussion of the problems of economic and cultural change", the Center sponsored publication of the journal
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Klaus Herdzina (1999) entry on "Hoselitz, Bert(hold) Frank, in Harald Hagemann and Claus-Dieter Krohn editors,
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Hoselitz can be seen as a maverick and intellectual outsider to the Chicago Economics department, home of the "
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Yvan Kelly (2009) "Mises, Morgenstern, Hoselitz, and Nash: the Austrian Connection to Early Game Theory"
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Yvan Kelly (2009) "Mises, Morgenstern, Hoselitz, and Nash: the Austrian Connection to Early Game Theory"
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Bert F. Hoselitz, (1961) "Tradition and Economic Growth" in Ralph Braibanti and Joseph J. Spengler eds.
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Bert Hoselitz (1956) "Entrepreneurship and Capital Formation in France and Britain since 1700," in
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Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Emigration nach 1933
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A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
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Bert Hoselitz (1953) "The Role of Cities in the Economic Growth of Underdeveloped countries,"
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Bert F. Hoselitz, (1960) "Theories of Stages of Economic Growth," in Bert F. Hoselitz ed.,
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between 1945 and 1978. His analysis of the role of cultural and sociological factors in
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Hoselitz worked effectively with "mainstream" members of the Economics department.
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models of self-interested maximizing behavior. Hoselitz was the founding editor of
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In 1947–48, he held an appointment as associate professor of economics at the
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Bert Hoselitz, (1953) "The Scope and History of Theories of Economic Growth"
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edited by Ross B. Emmett, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 274–279
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in 1947–48 that was the only economics course that future Nobel Laureate
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in Indiana and taught economics there in 1940–41. He then attended the
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Bert Hoselitz, (1952) "Non-economic Barriers to Economic Development"
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For biographical information see Mitch (2010) and Herdzina (1999).
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Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1952
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Bert Hoselitz (1957) "Urbanization and Economic Growth in Asia".
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Bert Hoselitz, (1952), "Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth,"
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Bert Hoselitz, (1953), "Social Structure and Economic Growth,"
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Bert Hoselitz (1945) "Professor Hayek on German Socialism,"
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Bert Hoselitz (1955) "Generative and Parasitic Cities"
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Hoselitz was born in 1913 in Vienna. He studied at the
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The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics
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from 1932 to 1937, notably attending two seminars by
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Austrian
Economics
University of Chicago
Carnegie Institute of Technology
University of Vienna
Talcott Parsons
Ludwig von Mises
Jacob Viner
University of Chicago
economic development
Chicago School
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Carnegie Institute of Technology
international economics
John Nash
game theory
University of Vienna
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian Social Democratic Labor Party
Auschwitz concentration camp
Manchester College
University of Chicago
Jacob Viner
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Andre Gunder Frank
Dependency Theory
UNESCO

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