Karl Přibram
Karl Eman Přibram, also known as "Karl Pribram", was an Austrian-born economist. He is most noted for his work in labor economics, in industrial organization, and in the history of economic thought.
Přibram analyzed post-scholastic economic thought into three competing traditions:
- a nominalist tradition, which has typically provided foundations for liberal prescriptions
- an intuitionist tradition, which formed an intellectual infrastructure for fascistic prescriptions
- a tradition of Hegelian dialectics, which formed the intellectual infrastructure for Marxist Communism
Positions
- chief of the Legislative Division for Social Policy in the Austrian Ministry for Social Administration, 1918-21
- head of the research and statistical department at the International Labour Office, Geneva, 1921-28
- professor of economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main, 1928-33
- research member of the Brookings Institution, 1933-35
- member of the U.S. Social Security Board, 1935-42
- senior economist at the U.S. Tariff Commission, 1942-51
- professor of economics at American University.
Works
- Lohnschutz des gewerblichen Arbeiters nach österreichischem Recht
- Normalarbeitstag in den gewerblichen Betrieben und im Bergbaue Österreichs
- Probleme der internationalen Arbeitsstatistik
- Unification of Social Insurance
- "World-unemployment and Its Problems" in Unemployment as a world-problem by John Maynard Keynes, Karl Pribram, and E.J. Phelan; edited by Philip Quincy Wright
- "Equilibrium concept and business cycle statistics", Institut International de statistique, 22nd section, London.
- Cartel Problems; an Analysis of Collective Monopolies in Europe with American Application
- Social Insurance in Europe and Social Security in the United States: a Comparative Analysis
- Merit Rating and Unemployment Compensation
- Principles Underlying Disqualifications for Benefits in Unemployment Compensation
- Foreign Trade Policy of Austria
- Conflicting Patterns of Thought
- "Patterns of Economic Reasoning" in American Economic Review vol. 43, Supplement
- A History of Economic Reasoning published by the Johns Hopkins University Press