Oral history interview with Neil H. Jacoby, 1970

Biographical Note

Economist, university administrator

Scope and Contents

University of Chicago, 1937-42; Dean, College of Business Administration, University of California, 1948; Council of Economic Advisors, 1953-55; functions, personnel, philosophy, goals; relationship with United Nations Department of Economic Affairs; United States representative to UNESCO, 1957; comments on Federal Reserve system, Commodity Credit Corporation, agricultural economics, social legislation. Impressions of President Eisenhower, Arthur Burns, Raymond Saulnier, Walter Stewart, George Humphrey

Subjects

• College administrators--Interviews.
• Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.)
• Economists--Interviews.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
• Interviews.
• Jacoby, Neil H. (Neil Herman), 1909-1979--Interviews.
• Mink, James V. (James Vantine), 1923-2010, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Unesco.
• United Nations.
• United States--Economic policy--1945-1960.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976