Anna Schwartz

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Anna Schwartz
Schwartz in 2007
Born
Anna Jacobson

(1915-11-11)November 11, 1915
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 21, 2012(2012-06-21) (aged 96)
Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse(s)Isaac Schwartz
(1936–1999; his death)
4 children
Academic career
FieldMonetary economics
InstitutionNational Bureau of Economic Research
School or
tradition		Chicago school of economics
Alma materBarnard College
Columbia University
InfluencesMilton Friedman
ContributionsAnalysis of money
Analysis of banking
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced /ʃwɔːrts/ SHWORTS; November 11, 1915 – June 21, 2012) was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for The New York Times. Paul Krugman has said that Schwartz is "one of the world's greatest monetary scholars."[1]

Schwartz collaborated with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman on A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960, which was published in 1963.[2][3][4] This book placed the blame for the Great Depression at the door of the Federal Reserve System.[5] Robert J. Shiller describes the book as the "most influential account" of the Great Depression.[6] She was also president of the Western Economic Association International in 1988.[7]

Schwartz was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2013.[8]

  1. ^ Paul Krugman (March 29, 2007). "Who Was Milton Friedman?". The New York Review of Books. [verification needed]
  2. ^ Burns, Jennifer (2024). "Retrospectives: Friedman and Schwartz, Disaggregated". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 38 (4): 211–228. doi:10.1257/jep.38.4.211. ISSN 0895-3309.
  3. ^ "Milton Friedman". Policonomics. 2012. [verification needed]
  4. ^ Friedman, Milton (1989). "Collaboration in Economics". In Bordo, Michael D. (ed.). Money, History, and International Finance: Essays in Honor of Anna J. Schwartz. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 246-249. ISBN 9780226065939.
  5. ^ Milton Friedman; Anna Jacobson Schwartz; National Bureau of Economic Research (2008). "B. Bernanke's speech to M. Friedman". The Great Contraction, 1929–1933. Princeton University Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-691-13794-0.
  6. ^ Shiller, Robert J. (2017). "Narrative Economics". American Economic Review. 107 (4): 967–1004. doi:10.1257/aer.107.4.967. ISSN 0002-8282.
  7. ^ "Past Presidents" (PDF). Western Economic Association International. Retrieved June 21, 2012. [verification needed]
  8. ^ National Women's Hall of Fame, Anna Jacobson Schwartz