Gustav Stolper

Austrian-German economist, journalist, and politician (1888–1947)

Toni Stolper

(m. 1921)

ChildrenWolfgang Stolper

Gustav Stolper (25 July 1888 – 27 December 1947) was an Austrian-German economist, economics journalist and politician.^[1]^[2]

Life and work

Stolper was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was born into a Jewish family that had immigrated from Poland to Austria.^[3]

In 1913 he established Der Österreichischer Volkswirt.^[4] Stolper and Joseph Schumpeter reportedly knew each other when they lived in Vienna in the 1910s.^[5] In 1925, Stolper moved to Berlin.^[5] In 1926 he established the Deutscher Volkswirt, the forerunner of Wirtschaftswoche weekly business magazine.^[3]^[6]

Stolper was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in 1930 as a member of the German State Party.^[7]

Stolper migrated to the United States after Hitler's rise to power.^[8]

In 1940, he published German Economy, 1870-1940, an economic history of modern Germany.^[9] In 1958, he published German Realities; A Guide to the Future Peace of Europe.^[8]^[10]

Gustav Stolper Prize

The Gustav Stolper Prize is awarded by the Verein für Socialpolitik for "outstanding scientists who have employed the findings of economic research to influence the public debate on economic issues and problems, and have made important contributions to understanding and solving contemporary economic problems."^[4]

Winners:

2007: Bruno S. Frey
2008: Hans-Werner Sinn
2009: Martin Hellwig
2010: Ernst Fehr
2011: Otmar Issing
2012: Wolfgang Franz
2013: Clemens Fuest
2014: Carl Christian von Weizsäcker
2015: Justus Haucap
2016: Christoph M. Schmidt
2017: Ludger Wößmann
2018: Isabel Schnabel
2019: Ulrike Malmendier
2020: Markus Brunnermeier
2021: Lars Feld
2022: Monika Schnitzer

Family

His eldest son Wolfgang Stolper (1912-2002) was an American economist.^[3]

References

^ Stolper, Toni (1979). Ein Leben in den Brennpunkten unserer Zeit. Stuttgart: Klett Cotta. ISBN 3-12-911990-6.
^ Baade, Fritz (1949). "Gustav Stolper". Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv. 62: 3–10. ISSN 0043-2636.
^ ^a ^b ^c Handschuch, Konrad (29 April 2012). "Gustav Stolper - Liberaler Kämpfer und brillanter Schreiber". Wirtschaftswoche. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Gustav Stolper Prize". Verein für Socialpolitik. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
^ ^a ^b Cantner, Uwe; Dopfer, Kurt (2015). "Schumpeter and his contemporaries—précis and road marks". Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 25 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1007/s00191-015-0404-x. ISSN 1432-1386.
^ Klausinger, Hansjorg (2001). "Gustav Stolper, Der deutsche Volkswirt, and the Controversy on Economic Policy at the End of the Weimar Republic". History of Political Economy. 33 (2): 241–267. ISSN 1527-1919.
^ Handschuch, Konrad (29 April 2012). "Gustav Stolper - Liberaler Kämpfer und brillanter Schreiber - Flucht vor den Nazis". Wirtschaftswoche. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
^ ^a ^b Kohn, Hans (1948). "German Realities; A Guide to the Future Peace of Europe. By Gustav Stolper. (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock. 1948. Pp. 338. $3.75.)". American Political Science Review. 42 (4): 806–807. doi:10.2307/1950943. ISSN 1537-5943.
^ Henderson, W. O. (1941). "Review of German Economy, 1870-1940". The Economic History Review. 11 (1): 113–113. doi:10.2307/2590726. ISSN 0013-0117.
^ Mason, Edward S. (1948). "Review of German Realities: A Guide to the Future Peace of Europe". The American Economic Review. 38 (5): 922–924. ISSN 0002-8282.