Mabel Newcomer

Mabel Newcomer (2 July 1892 – 3 March 1983 ) was an economics professor at Vassar College from 1917 to 1957. She also taught courses in finance and corporations. Newcomer was one of two women economists taking part in the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference that established the International Monetary Fund.

Early life and education Mabel Newcomer was born on 2 July, 1891 in Oregon, Illinois. Her father, Alphonso Newcomer, was an English professor at Stanford.

Newcomer earned her bachelor's (1913) and master's (1914)' degrees in economics from Stanford University.

Career Newcomer held a fellowship at Columbia University where she delivered work on local government and property taxation. She took a part-time teaching job at Barnard in 1916-1917. Herbert Mills, the chair of Vassar’s economics department observed her teaching. She joined Vassar’s economics department in 1917, and became a full professor there by 1926. She continued to teach at Vassar until her retirement in 1957.

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