Preliminary Inventory of the Randall Hinshaw Papers, 1930-1995
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Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
Hinshaw, Randall Weston.
Title
Randall Hinshaw Papers, 1930-1995
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
13.5 Linear Feet
10,125 Items
Abstract
10,125 Items
Randall Hinshaw was a professor in economics at the Claremont Graduate School, where he specialized in monetary theory. He founded the Claremont-Bologna Monetary Conference Series.
Collection includes correspondence, both personal and economics-related; monetary conference files from the 1960s-1990s; audio and video cassettes and reels of conference talks and proceedings; economics articles and reprints; and some of Hinshaw's early schoolwork and papers from the 1930s-1940s.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Randall Hinshaw Papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Randall Hinshaw Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a
gift in 2009.
Processing Information
Accessioned by Meghan Lyon, May 2009
Encoded by Meghan Lyon, May 2009
This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Randall Hinshaw was a graduate of Occidental College (B.A., 1937; M.A., 1938) and of Princeton University (Ph.D., 1944). After working for the Federal Reserve, NATO, and as a lecturer at a variety of universities in the 1940s and 1950s, Hinshaw joined the faculty of Claremont Graduate School in 1960 as a professor of economics. His specialization was monetary theory, and he authored numerous books on the subject, including Monetary Reform and the Price of Gold (1964), The European Community and American Trade: A Study In Atlantic Economics and Policy (1964), The Unstable Dollar: Domestic and International Issues (1988). He also edited compilations, such as The Economics of International Adjustment (1971). In addition to his teaching and research, Hinshaw founded and was the director of the Bologna-Claremont series of biennial international monetary conferences, beginning in 1967. He organized several conferences through the 1990s, many of which are represented in this collection through correspondence and recordings. These conferences frequently attracted internationally acclaimed economic theorists, including Nobel Prize winners.
Chronology List| May 9, 1915 | Born in La Grange, Illinois |
| 1937 | A.B., Occidental College |
| 1942-1943 | Teaching fellow, Harvard University |
| 1944 | Ph.D., Princeton University |
| 1943-1946; 1947-1952 | Economist, Division of International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C. |
| 1946-1947 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College |
| June 19, 1949 | Married Pearl Electa Stevens |
| 1952-1957 | Special advisor on trade and international monetary problems, U.S. Mission to NATO and European Regional Organizations (USRO), Paris |
| 1957-1958 | Visiting professor of economics, Yale University |
| 1958-1959 | Visiting professor of economics, Oberlin College |
| 1959-1960 | Visiting research fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York |
| 1960 | Appointed professor of economics, Claremont Graduate School |
| 1965-1967, summer 1968, spring 1971 | Visiting professor of economics, The Johns Hopkins University (Bologna Center, School of Advanced International Studies) |
| 1967 | Founder and director of Bologna-Claremont International Monetary Conference series |
| 1967 | Bologna I monetary conference |
| 1971 | Bologna II monetary conference |
| 1973 | Claremont II monetary conference |
| 1975 | Claremont III monetary conference |
| 1977 | Frankfurt monetary conference |
| 1980 | Hamburg monetary conference |
| 1983 | Bologna III monetary conference |
| 1986 | Claremont V monetary conference |
| 1994 | Claremont VI monetary conference |
| 1995 | Bologna IV monetary conference |
| 1997 | Claremont VII monetary conference |
Collection Overview
Although this collection has not been processed, it consists of several major parts: Hinshaw's early schoolwork, including his BA diploma and his MA thesis from Occidental College; drafts of his books; articles, reprints, and papers from Hinshaw and numerous other economists, dating from the 1940s-1990s; conference materials and correspondence from 1968-1995; correspondence files from 1957-1993, including Hinshaw's exchanges with other leading economists; audiotapes, audioreels, and videotapes of economic conference proceedings and speeches; and other miscellaneous or loose material. Most materials have been refoldered for preservation.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Claremont Graduate School.
- Economics.
- Economics--Congresses.
- Hinshaw, Randall Weston.
- Monetary theory.
- Audiotapes.
- Photographs.
- Sound recordings.
- Videotapes.
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Preliminary Description of Collection
Accession (2009-0138), 1930s-1995
(10 boxes)
This accession consists of several major parts: Hinshaw's early schoolwork, including his BA diploma and his MA thesis from Occidental College; drafts of his books; articles, reprints, and papers from Hinshaw and numerous other economists, dating from the 1940s-1990s; conference materials and correspondence from 1968-1995; correspondence files from 1957-1993, including Hinshaw's exchanges with other leading economists; audiotapes, audioreels, and videotapes of economic conference proceedings and speeches; and other miscellaneous or loose material.
Box 1
Hinshaw schoolwork, no date
Philosophy course, 1934
MA Thesis, Occidental College, 1938
Occidental College BA diploma, 1937
Occidental College publications
Office material, 1949
John Parke Young: International Trade and Finance, 1937
Paul Samuelson:
"Economics: An Introductory Analysis,"
1946
Newspaper photocopies and clippings (2)
"International Monetary Issues After the Cold War"
drafts (3)
"The World Economy in Transition"
drafts
"Wages and Unemployment"
Royalties
Council on Foreign Relations correspondence, 1961-1970
Recommendations (3)
Articles, papers, and reprints, undated (2)
Box 2
Articles, papers, and reprints, 1940s
Articles, papers, and reprints, 1950s
Articles, papers, and reprints, 1960s
Articles, papers, and reprints, 1970s (2)
Articles, papers, and reprints, 1980s
Federal Reserve reprints, 1980s
Articles, papers, and reprints, 1990s
Loose materials and reprints
Pamphlet reprints, 1938-1963
Pamphlet reprints, 1946-1990
Box 3
Hinshaw:
"The Papers of Sir Roy Harrod"
Lord Robbins:
"Autobiography of an Economist"
Bologna II-book
Book correspondence (3)
Gold Conference, 1968 (2)
1968 Monetary Conference and correspondence
Monetary Conference general file
Conferences (3)
"The Economics of International Adjustment,"
1960s-1970s
"Monetary Reform and the Price of Gold"
1969 correspondence (2)
1973 conferences (2)
1991 Symposium correspondence (incoming)
1994 Dialogue correspondence (incoming and outgoing)
Filing
Box 4
Conferences
Bologna II (outgoing and incoming), 1971
Claremont II (outgoing, incoming, and general), 1973
Claremont III (incoming, outgoing, budget), 1975
Claremont (outgoing and incoming), 1978
Frankfurt (outgoing, incoming, and general), 1977
Hamburg (travel, incoming, outgoing, and general), 1980
Box 5
Bologna III (outgoing and incoming), 1983
Claremont V (outgoing, incoming, and general), 1986
1994 Dialogue (general)
Claremont (budget), 1994
Bologna (outgoing and incoming), 1995
Publishers correspondence
Correspondence (incoming and outgoing), 1957-1960
Box 6
Correspondence (incoming and outgoing), 1961-1976
Box 7
Correspondence (incoming and outgoing), 1977-1993
Box 8
Miscellaneous correspondence
Claremont monetary conferences, 1973-1995
Claremont Graduate School newsletters
Transcript: Bologna-Claremont conference series
Claremont Graduate School
National Resource Committee: Consumer Expenditures in teh United States
Meeting planning guide
Loose photocopies and reprints
Reviews of conference books
Audiocassettes
1975 Conference
Johns Hopkins, 1995
Council on Foreign Relations, 1991
Box 9
Audiocassettes, open reels, videotapes
Southern Poverty Law Center
Council on Foreign Relations
Economic conference, 1969
Claremont II
Claremont Economics Conference, March 1986
Hinshaw: International Monetary Disorder, 1985
Milton Friedman, 1986
Hamburg International Monetary Conference
Harry Johnson
Box 10
Miscellaneous research and lecture notes
Family Album (Hinshaw family) newsletters, 1930s
Clippings
"Some Questions of Time in Economics"
Photographs
"Banking and Monetary Statistics"
Audiocassettes
Audio reels
1971 Conference (Bologna)
Claremont II
1973 tapes (reels)
