Edwin Griswold Nourse papers, 1908-1970.
Collection Number: 2723
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Edwin Griswold Nourse papers, 1908-1970.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2723
Abstract:
Collection includes papers from the period preceding Nourse's chairmanship of the
Council of Economic Advisers, including a bibliography, autobiographical statement,
and reviews of his books by others.
Creator:
Nourse, Edwin G. (Edwin Griswold), 1883-1974.
Quanitities:
3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Edwin Griswold Nourse was born in Lockport, New York on May 20, 1883, and grew up
near Chicago, Illinois. He received undergraduate training at Lewis Institute (now
the Illinois Institute of Technology) and Cornell University, and received his Ph.D.
in Economics and Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1915; his dissertation
was published as a Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essay under the title The Chicago
Produce Market. He was an instructor in economics and sociology before joining the
Institute of Economics to direct its agricultural studies. When the Institute became
part of the newly formed Brookings Institution in 1927, he became Director of the
Institute, and from 1942-1946 he also served as Vice President of the Brookings Institution.
In 1946 President Truman named him the first Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
which was created by the Employment Act of 1946. He later became Vice Chairman of
the Joint Council on Economic Education. A leader in the economics profession, he
was President of the American Farm Economic Association (1924) and the American Economic
Association (1942). From 1925-1946 he was active in the Social Science Research Council
and was its Chairman from 1942-1945. He wrote many reports, pamphlets, articles, and
reviews, and his books include Agricultural Economics (1916); The Legal Status of
Agricultural Cooperation (1927); America's Capacity to Produce (1934); Price Making
in a Democracy (1944); Economics in the Public Service (1953); and The 1950s Come
First (1951).
Collection includes papers from the period preceding Nourse's chairmanship of the
Council of Economic Advisers, including a bibliography, autobiographical statement,
and reviews of his books by others; papers, 1949-1966; book reviews of The 1950s Come
First; correspondence relating to published materials; Nourse's testimony at hearings
before congressional committees; personal diary; official papers of Nourse's chairmanship
of the Council of Economic Advisers, and related press clippings and speeches; and
tapes and transcripts of interviews with Nourse, 1966, 1967, and 1970.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Edwin Griswold Nourse. Papers, #2723. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Nourse, Edwin Griswold, 1883-1974. (Title of work: Agricultural economics..)
Nourse, Edwin Griswold, 1883-1974. (Title of work: America\'s capacity to produce..)
Nourse, Edwin Griswold, 1883-1974. (Title of work: Chicago produce market..)
Nourse, Edwin Griswold, 1883-1974. (Title of work: Economics in the public service..)
Nourse, Edwin Griswold, 1883-1974. (Title of work: Legal status of agricultural cooperation..)
Nourse, Edwin Griswold, 1883-1974. (Title of work: Price making in a democracy..)
Nourse, Edwin Griswold, 1883-1974. (Title of work: 1950s come first..)
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
Lewis Institute (Illinois)
Illinois Institute of Technology
Cornell University
University of Chicago
United States. Institute of Economics
United States. Council of Economic Advisers
United States. Joint Council on Economic Education
American Farm Economic Association
American Economic Association
United States. Social Science Research Council
Brookings Institution
Places:
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Officials and employees.
Subjects:
Economists.
Sociology.
Economics.
Form and Genre Terms:
Speeches.
Interviews.
Diaries.
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