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Charles P. Kindleberger

Charles Poor Kindleberger (October 12, 1910 – July 7, 2003) was an American economic historian and author of over 30 books. His 1978 book Manias, Panics, and Crashes, about speculative stock market bubbles, was reprinted in 2000 after the dot-com bubble. He is well known for his role in developing what would become hegemonic stability theory,[1][2] arguing that a hegemonic power was needed to maintain a stable international monetary system.[3] He has been referred to as "the master of the genre" on financial crisis by The Economist.[4]

Charles Kindleberger

October 12, 1910

July 7, 2003(2003-07-07) (aged 92)

Economist

1934–1996

United States Treasury, MIT

Sarah Miles Kindleberger

Bronze Star, Legion of Merit

Life[edit]

Background[edit]

Kindleberger was born in New York City on October 12, 1910. He graduated from the Kent School in 1928, the University of Pennsylvania in 1932, and received a PhD from Columbia University in 1937.[5]


During the summer of 1931, he traveled to Europe and attended a seminar hosted by Salvador de Madariaga, but, when the latter was appointed Spanish Ambassador to the United States, Kindleberger attended lectures at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva led by Sir Alfred Zimmern.[6]

International Short-term Capital Movements (NY: Columbia University Press, 1937)

International Economics (Irwin, 1953)

Economic Development (New York, 1958)

Foreign Trade and the National Economy (Yale, 1962)

Europa and the Dollar (Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, 1966)

Europe's Postwar Growth. The Role of Labor Supply (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967)

American Business Abroad (New Haven, London, 1969)

The Benefits of International Money. Journal of International Economics 2 (Nov. 1972): 425–442.

The World in Depression: 1929–1939 (University of California Press, 1973); Kindleberger, Charles P. (1986). revised and enlarged edition. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520055926.

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Archived March 29, 2020, at the Wayback Machine

MIT Economics bio

MIT obituary

(2008). "Kindleberger, Charles P. (1910–2003)." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed. Abstract.

Peter Temin

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Charles P. Kindleberger