Anna Schwartz papers, 1929-2012

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Summary

Creator:
Schwartz, Anna J. (Anna Jacobson), 1915-2012
Abstract:
Anna Schwartz (1915-2012) was a research staff member at the National Bureau of Economic Research who collaborated with Milton Friedman on numerous works, including A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960. This collection primarily documents her professional life through her correspondence, writings, research, and professional service. It forms part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Extent:
23 Linear Feet (18 boxes.)
0.2 Gigabytes (One set.)
Language:
Material in English.
Collection ID:
RL.01152

Background

Scope and content:

The most common types of material are correspondence and memorandums; drafts of writings; referee reports and book reviews; daybooks and phone logs; clippings; event programs; meeting transcripts and minutes; statements, testimony, and questionnaires; and research files and writings by others. The contents of a CD with a backup of Schwartz's office files have been copied to a server and are available; there is correspondence in the form of typed letters and email. A VHS tape with a 1984 interview of her has not been reformatted.

The most frequent correspondents besides Milton Friedman include Michael Bordo, Charles Calomiris, Robert Hetzel, Edward Kane, Allan Meltzer, Edward Nelson, Scott Sumner, and Walker Todd. There is also early correspondence from her husband Issac Schwartz in the form of courtship letters.

The primary subjects include banking; business cycles, including the Great Recession; currency boards; the FDIC, FOMC, and Federal Reserve; foreign exchange market intervention; gold; the IMF; monetarism and monetary policy; and UK economics. Friedman appears as both a subject and correspondent/coauthor.

Biographical / historical:

Anna (Jacobson) Schwartz (1915-2012) was a white American research economist who spent almost her entire career at the National Bureau of Economic Research on the research staff. As an author, she was noted for her three books with Milton Friedman: A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960; Monetary Statistics of the United States; and Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom: Their Relation to Income, Prices, and Interest Rates, 1867-1975. She was the staff director of the US Gold Commission and a past president of the Western Economic Association.

Schwartz served on the board of editors of the American Economic Review; American Economic Review; Journal of Financial Services Research; and Journal of Financial Services Research. She held a BA from Barnard College and an MA and PhD in economics from Columbia University. She was a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Economic Affairs, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Acquisition information:
The Anna Schwartz papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a gift in 2012.
Processing information:

Processed by Rebecca Evans and Meghan Lyon, September 2012; Hyeeyoung Kim, October 2017.

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, September 2012.

Electronic records reprocessed by Zachary Tumlin, January 2023.

Accession described in this collection guide: 2012-0133.

Arrangement:

The Anna Schwartz papers are arranged into six series: Correspondence, Personal, Professional Service, Research, Writings, and Milton Friedman.

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[Identification of item], Anna Schwartz papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.