Bert F. Hoselitz

Berthold Frank Hoselitz taught Economics and Social Science at the University of Chicago between 1945 and 1978. His analysis of the role of cultural and sociological factors was influential in the newly emerging field of economic development and stands in stark contrast with usual depictions of Chicago School economists focusing on narrow models of selfinterested maximizing behavior. He was the founding editor of one of the most prominent journals in the field of economic development, Economic Development and Cultural Change. At Carnegie Institute of Technology in 194748, he taught a course in international economics that was the only course in Economics future Nobel Laureate John Nash took before Nash went on to write his path breaking thesis on game theory and bargaining.

Hoselitz was born in 1913 in Vienna. He studied at the University of Vienna between 1932 and 1937 and obtained a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1936. During that time, he attended two seminars by Ludwig von Mises before Mises departed Vienna in 1934. Hoselitz was a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Labor Party between 1928 and 1938. He left Vienna at about the same time as his father, Bela and his brother, Kurt, in 1938, when Nazi Germany annexed Austria. After an attempt to go to China, he went to England. In 1942, Hoselitzs mother died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Through a U.S. Quaker organization, he was able to find a position at Manchester College in Indiana and taught economics there between 194041. He then attended the University of Chicago, obtaining his masters degree in 1945. In 1943, he served as a research assistant for Jacob Viner at Yale. In 1945, he took a position as instructor in social sciences and then in 1946 as Assistant Professor of Economics at

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