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Henry Wallich

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Henry Wallich · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1914, Berlin, Germany — 1988, USA

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Henry Wallich is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Henry Christopher Wallich was a German-American economist who served as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board from 1974 to 1986, and earlier taught at Yale and advised on economic policy, writing widely on money and international finance. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He came from the assimilated Wallich banking family, of Jewish descent.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists