Josef Steindl

Josef Steindl was an Austrian-born post-Keynesian economist.

Career

He was at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research but moved to the UK in 1938 to lecture at Oxford University. There he worked with a group of other European exiles from Fascism, including Michał Kalecki. Kalecki has been described as being Steindl's role-modelwith his work resembling part of Kalecki's not only in substance but also in style.
In 1950 he returned to WIFO until his retirement in 1978.

Work

concludes his review of Steindl's life in The [Economic Journal] with a quote illustrating his views about the tasks for economic research:

Honorary positions

1970 Honorary Professor of the University of Vienna
197475 visiting professor at Stanford University
Major works

Two of Steindl's most notable works are:

Small and Big Business; Economic Problems of the Size of Firms
Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism