GOLDENWEISER, EMANUEL ALEXANDROVICH

GOLDENWEISER, EMANUEL ALEXANDROVICH (1883–1953), U.S. economist. Goldenweiser was born in Kiev, immigrated to the United States in 1902, studied at Columbia and Cornell Universities, and, in 1907, joined the U.S. government service as an economist and statistician. He first served with the Immigration Commission and then with the Census Bureau and the Department of Agriculture. In 1919 he began working for the Federal Reserve Board, and from 1927 until his retirement was its director of research. He developed the Board's statistical services, frequently represented the Federal Reserve System nationally, and served on the government's principal technical committees on economics and finance. He   was, moreover, one of the main U.S. designers of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His many publications include: Immigrants in Cities (1909), Farm Tenancy in the United States (1924), The Federal Reserve System in Operation (1925), and Monetary Management (1949). (Joachim O. Ronall)