Reminiscences of Sidney Ratner : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Economic historian.

Scope and Contents

Family; education: Townsend Harris, City College of New York, Columbia University; speechwriter for Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, 1945-1946; Board of Economic Warfare, 1942-1943: North African economic resources project, Indian drought plan, study of Nazi Germany's economic penetration, 1944-1945; ballbearing cartel and impact on 1944 Normandy invasion, relief supply proposals for Western Europe, study of German and Japanese economic penetration; Planning Division, Office of Foreign Liquidation, 1946; Conference on methods and philosophy in the sciences; research for PATTERNS OF WAR ECONOMY: European visit, 1958, consultations with economists, Japan, 1962; American Committee to Study War Documents, 1956-1957; lecturer in Japan, 1964: thoughts on Japanese eceonomy and culture; visit to India, 1964; lecturer, Nigeria, 1966: views of Nigerian society and politics; Vietnamese Conflict; publications, teaching methods, philosophy of history; impressions of Charles Beard, John Dewey, Louise Rosenblatt.

Subjects

• Economic history--20th century.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Historians--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Japan--History--1945-
• Nigeria--History--1960-
• Oral histories.
• Ratner, Sidney, 1908-1996.
• United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
• United States. Board of Economic Warfare.
• United States. Foreign Economic Administration.
• World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects.

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