FEILER, ARTHUR

FEILER, ARTHUR (1879–1942), economist. Born in Breslau, he was a contributor to the financial section of the Frankfurter Zeitung, from 1903 to 1910, and from 1910 to 1930 was a senior editor of the paper. He taught at the University of Frankfurt for some time during the late 1920s, and at the Graduate Business School in Koenigsberg from 1932 to 1933. In 1933 he emigrated to the United States where he worked at the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. His numerous publications include Die Konjunkturperiode 1907 – 13 in Deutschland (1914); Amerika-Europa: Erfahrungen einer Reise (1926); America Seen Through German Eyes (1928); Das Experiment des Bolschewismus (19303); and (with M. Ascoli) Fascism for Whom? (1938). (Edith Hirsch)