About Josef Steindl
Lived 1912 – 1993 (aged 80–81). Josef Steindl was an Austrian economist.
Josef Steindl (14 April 1912 – 7 March 1993) was an Austrian-born post-Keynesian economist.
Career He was at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) (1935–38) (Ludwig von Mises Institute) but moved to the UK in 1938 to lecture at Oxford University. There he worked with a group of other European exiles from Fascism, including Michał Kalecki. Kalecki has been described as being Steindl's role-modelwith his work resembling part of Kalecki's not only in substance but also in style.
In 1950 he returned to WIFO until his retirement in 1978. Small and Big Business; Economic Problems of the Size of Firms (1945) Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism (1952)
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Austrian economist (1912–1993)
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Josef Steindl was born on 14 April 1912 in Vienna.
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Josef Steindl died in 1993 in Vienna.
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Josef Steindl was an economist.
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