ABSTRACT
Anna Jacobson Schwartz is Research Associate Emerita of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of The City University of New York. She was born in New York City in 1915 and was educated at Barnard College (B.A., 1934) and Columbia University (M.A., 1935; Ph.D., 1964). Schwartz was President of the Western Economic Association in 1988 and was named Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association for 1993. She was honored in 1989 with a Festschrift edited by Michael D. Bordo, Money, History, and International Finance. The interview took place at the New York offices of the NBER in April, 1995, and was conducted by E N. W of Rutgers University, who writes:
After receiving her M.A., Anna Schwartz spent a year at the US Department of Agriculture before returning to Columbia to collaborate with A. D. Gayer and W. W. Rostow on The Growth and Fluctuation of the British Economy, 1790-1850 (1953), a classic of British economic history. Her renowned collaboration with Milton Friedman produced a trio of books: A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (1963), Monetary Statistics of the United States (1970) and Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom (1982). In addition to having taught at Brooklyn College, Baruch College, Hunter College and New York University, she is a founding member of the Shadow Open Market Committee (1973), and served as staff director of the US Gold Commission (1981-2). Characteristic of her large oeuvre of articles and books is the scrupulous compilation of statistical data to test her interpretations of history. It is fair to say that without Anna Schwartz modern macroeconomic history would be very different from what it is today, perhaps unrecognizable.
