Adolph Lowe papers,
- Author:
- Lowe, Adolph, 1893-1995.
- Call Number:
- MSS GER-022 local
- Abstract:
- The collection consists chiefly of the published and unpublished personal and professional writings of economist Adolph Lowe. It documents his broad intellecutal interests, chronicles the evolution of his economic theories, and sheds light upon his broader beliefs about the role of economic theory and economic planning in creating stable and egalitarian socieities. The collection documents Lowe's academic work in Britain and, in particular, the United States is documented. The collection contains many of the lecture notes that he wrote while teaching at Manchester University and the New School for Social Research and numerous published and unpublished articles and essays. It also contains some of the letters that he wrote and received while residing in Great Britain and the United States and almost all of the correspondence he sent and received after his 1983 return to Germany, including some from Robert Heilbroner. Other correspondents include: Gerhard Colm, Alvin Johnson, Hans Jonas, Marianne Marschak, Hans Staudinger, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sir Geoffrey Vickers. The correspondence also sheds light upon Lowe's interactions with his daughters Rachel Aubrey and Hanna Lustig and several of his grandchildren. Other materials of interest include the scholarly writings that Lowe gathered in connection with his research.
- Historical Note:
- Adolph Lowe was born in Stuttgart, Germany on March 4, 1893 to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1914-15, he served in the German Army. In 1919, he married Beatrice Loewenstein. Löwe received his Dr. Jur. degree from the University of Tübingen in 1918, but his contacts with noted economic historian Lujo Brentano led him to become an economist. He served as an economic advisor to the Weimar government (1918-24), taking posts in the ministries of Demobilization, Labor, and Economic Affairs. While working for the Bureau of Statistics (1924-26), he began his academic career. He joined the faculty of the University of Kiel (1925-31) and established the Institute for Business Cycle Research (1925). He then served as director of research and educational studies (1926-30) and associate professor of economics (1930-31) at the Institute of World Economics. Between 1931 and 1933, he taught political economy at the University of Frankfurt. In Spring 1933, Löwe was dismissed from his teaching post by the Nazi government. The family left for Britain just before the German government revoked the passports of those it defined as Jewish. Lowe became a Rockefeller Foundation fellow (1933-38) and Manchester University lecturer. In his first book, Economics and Sociology: A Plea for Co-Operation in the Social Sciences (1935), he encouraged fellow economists to incorporate the insights of other social scientists into their analyses. Other notable works by Lowe included on Economic Knowledge (1965) and Has Freedom a Future?(1989). Lowe became a naturalized British subject in September 1939. In 1939, he accepted an offer from the New School for Social Research in New York City and served as a professor until his retirement in 1978. After Beatrice Lowe's death in 1982, Lowe returned to Germany. He died on June 4, 1995, in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 5.0 cu. ft
- Access Terms:
- Access to the collection is unrestricted.
- Notes:
- Part of the German and Jewish Intellectual E´migre´ Collection. local
- Subjects:
- Economists Germany, Economics Study and teaching, Economics Sociological aspects, Economic policy, Economics Sociological aspects, Economics Study and teaching, and Economists
- Genres/Forms:
- Correspondence. aat, Personal papers. aat, Lecture notes. aat, Essays. aat, and Interview. aat
- Names:
- Lowe, Adolph, 1893-1995 and Lowe, Adolph, 1893-1995
- Corporate Names:
- New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) and New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997)
- Geographic Terms:
- Germany Economic policy and Germany
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