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Edwin W a l t e r Kemmerer COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Register of Papers I Processed: IB Date: 10/26/55 EDWIN WALTER KEMMERER (1375 - 1945) The papers of Dr. Edwin Kemmerer, economist, educator and monetary expert, are deposited at Princeton University. Some are included in the Banjamin Strong Collection there; some are with his books in the Firestone Library. Included are papers and reports to 14. governments which he advised on fiscal and monetary problems. Linear feet of shelf space occupied or other measure: Approximate number of items: Mrs. E. W. Kemmerer and her son Donald also have some papers. Edvin Walter Kemmerer - 2 - II Biographical Note 1875, June 29 Born, Scranton, Pennsylvania 1899 A.B., Wesleyan University 1901, Dec. 24 Married Rachel Dickele (2 children) 1901-03 Instructor in economics, Purdue University 1903 Ph.D., Cornell University 1903 Financial Adviser, U.S. Philippine Commission 1904-06 Chief, Division of Currency, Philippine Islands 1906-09 Assistant professor political economy, Cornell Univ. 1909-12 Professor of economics and finance, Cornell 1907-10 Managing editor, Economic Bulletin 1912-28 Professor of economics and finance, Princeton Univ. 1917-2* Financial adviser to governments of Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia 1924-25 Member, Kemmerer-Vissering Gold Standard Inquiry Commission for Union of South Africa 1925 Banking and currency expert to Daves Committee 1925-31 Chairman, American Commission of Financial Advisers to Chile, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Peru 1928-43 Walker Professor of International Finance and Director, International Finance Section, Princeton 1943-45 . Professor Emeritus, Princeton Univ. 1934 Joint Chairman, Hines-Kemmerer Commission to make economic survey of Turkey 1937 President, Economists1 National Committee on Monetary Policy 1945, Dec, 16 Died See Who Was Who in America, 1943-50, vol. II, Marquis Edwin Walter Kemmerer II - 3 Biographical ftote (cont.) Author of: Report on the Advisability of Establishing ji Government Agricultural Bank in the Philippines* 1906, Report on the Agricultural Bank of Egypt. 1906. Money and Credit Instruments in Their Relation to General Prices* 1907. Seasonal Variations in the Relative Demand for Money and Capital in the United States (in report of National Monetaiy Commission) • 1910* Modern Currency Reforms. 1916. The United States Postal Savings System. 1917. The ABC of the Federal Reserve System, 1st edit., 1918; 11th ed., 1938. (This book was completely revised by Prof. Kemmerer1s son, Donald, professor of American Economic History at Univ. of Illinois, and published by Harper and Bros, in 1950) Six Lectures on the Federal Reserve System. 1920. High Prices and Deflation. 1920. Kemmerer on Money. 1934-• Money—The Principles of Money and Their Exemplification in Outstanding Chapters of Monetary History. 1935• Inflation and Revolution; Mexico's Experience of 1912-1917. 1940. The ABC of Inflation* 1942.
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