About Martha Steffy Browne
Lived 1898 – 1990 (aged 91). Martha Steffy Browne was an American economist and university teacher.
Martha Steffy Browne (anglicized from Martha Stephanie Braun née Herrmann; 12 December 1898 – 2 March 1990) was an Austrian American economist. A student of Ludwig von Mises, she earned a doctorate in political economy in 1921 from the University of Vienna, one of the first women to do so. Of Jewish descent, Browne emigrated to the United States in 1939, later becoming a professor of economics at Brooklyn College (1947–1969).
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American economist
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Martha Steffy Browne was born on 12 December 1898 in Vienna.
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Martha Steffy Browne died on 2 March 1990 in New York City.
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Martha Steffy Browne was an economist and university teacher.
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Martha Steffy Browne was American.
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