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The Hoover Institution Library & Archives holds more than 6,000 archival collections that document war, revolution, and peace that shaped our world in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our archival collections related to Economics & economists.

Archival Collections

Bernstam (Mikhail S.) papers: Russian American economist. Contains correspondence, notes, and transcripts of writings relating to Russian émigrés in Europe and Argentina, activities of Russian revolutionaries abroad and in Russia before 1917, and the Russian Revolution. Includes correspondence between Nikolaĭ Kostet͡skiĭ and Raissa Plaksit͡skai͡a, 1908-1916.

Chicago Boys and Latin American market reformers collection: Group of market-oriented economists trained chiefly at the University of Chicago sprang to public attention after the military coup that ousted Socialist president Salvador Allende in September 1973. Consists of sound recordings and transcripts of interviews, and associated material, relating to free market policies in Chile and elsewhere in Latin America, and to the influence of economists associated with the University of Chicago in instituting them. Interviews conducted by Tobias Switzer and William E. Ratliff. Those interviewed include Rolf Lüders Schwarzenberg, Sergio de Castro, Martín Costabal Llona, Alvaro Donoso, Ernesto Fontaine, Gonzalo Vial Correa, Miguel Schweitzer, Roberto Kelly, Domingo Cavallo and Hernán Cubillos Sallato.

Fellner (William John) papers: US economist and member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1973–1975. Includes correspondence, speeches and writings, conference papers, reports, studies, testimony, charts, and statistics related to economic conditions and governmental economic policy in the United States, and laissez-faire economic theory, including particularly questions of unemployment, inflation, and monetary policy.

Goodrich (Pierre F.) papers: Member of the Mont Pèlerin Society. Contains correspondence, agenda, conference materials, memoranda, speeches, printed matter, and photographs related to activities of the Mont Pelerin Society, the nature of liberty, and laissez-faire economic theory.

Hartwell (R. M.) collection: President of the Mont Pelerin Society from 1992-1994 and author of A History of the Mont Pelerin Society. Includes correspondence, minutes, conference papers, publications, and agenda of the Mont Pelerin Society, mainly in the form of photocopies, related to activities of the society in promoting laissez-faire economics and associated concepts of freedom. Includes questionnaires sent to Mont Pelerin Society members in 1984.

Institute for Humane Studies miscellaneous records: US organization for the promotion of laissez-faire economics. Collection comprised of sound recordings of lectures by various economists and other speakers delivered at the Institute for Humane Studies, relating to laissez-faire economic and political theory; correspondence, memoranda and financial records, relating to production of the festschrift Toward Liberty (1971) in honor of the Austrian-American economist Ludwig von Mises, and to a visit to the United States by the Austrian economist Friedrich A. von Hayek in 1975.

Litoshenko (Lev Nikolaevich) papers: Russian economist. Contains writings and photographs, relating to agriculture in the Soviet Union and industry in the United States. Includes drafts and final typescript of "Agrarian Policy in Soviet Russia before the Adoption of the Five Year Plan" (co-authored with Lincoln Hutchinson), and typescript of "Metody finansirovaniia amerikanskoi promyshlennosti." Writings sponsored by the Committee on Russian Research, Hoover War Library.

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