Robert B. Warren

Robert B. Warren was an American economist and banking expert. He was a member of the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1939 until his death in 1950.

Robert B. Warren
Died1950
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
Academic work
DisciplineEconomist
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study

Education and career

Warren got an A.M. at Harvard University in 1916. In 1919 he went to work for the Federal Reserve in Washington.[1]

In 1935 Abraham Flexner was struggling to establish a School of Economics and Politics at the recently founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The school initially consisted of Edward M. Earle, David Mitrany, and Winfield W. Riefler. In 1939 Warren joined the school on the recommendation of then trustee Walter W. Stewart who had worked with him at the Federal Reserve.[2] But Flexner had established the economics school without the approval of the other faculty and this led to his resignation as Director of the Institute in 1939.[3]

Nevertheless, during World War II members of the IAS School of Economics and Politics did important war work. In 1944 Warren along with IAS colleague Walter W. Stewart advised the Treasury Department in Washington on the relation between fiscal operations and the banking system.[4]

References
  1. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volume 18, p. 272
  2. Bonner, Thomas Neville (2002). Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning, p. 280, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801871247
  3. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, p. 93, by George Dyson, Pantheon Books, New York (2012), ISBN 0375422773
  4. IAS Institute for Advanced Study (1945). Bulletin No. 11 : School Of Economics And Politics
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