EL
Economics & Business

Emil Lederer

Share
Who

Emil Lederer · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1882, Pilsen, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1939, New York City, USA

Where

Germany · Japan · United States

Biography

Emil Lederer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Emil Lederer was an economist and sociologist, a leading figure of the German social-economic school who wrote influential work on the salaried middle classes and the dynamics of mass society, warning early against the rise of totalitarianism. Forced out by the Nazis, he helped found the 'University in Exile' at the New School in New York. He was of Jewish heritage.

Sources & external links

Verify and go deeper with these external references.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists

This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.

Contributions & Sources

Economist

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists