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Anna Jacobson Schwartz (pronounced / ʃ w ɔːr t s / SHWORTS; November 11, 1915 – June 21, 2012) was an American economist who worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and a writer for The New York Times. Paul Krugman has said that Schwartz is "one of the world's greatest monetary scholars." [1]
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 is a book written in 1963 by future Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz.It uses historical time series and economic analysis to argue the then-novel proposition that changes in the money supply profoundly influenced the United States economy, especially the behavior of economic fluctuations.
The phrase was the title of a chapter in the 1963 book A Monetary History of the United States by Friedman and his fellow monetarist Anna Schwartz. The chapter was later published as a stand-alone book titled The Great Contraction, 1929–1933 in 1965. [1]
Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz stated that the Fed pursued an erroneously restrictive monetary policy, exacerbating the Great Depression. After the stock market crash in 1929, the Fed continued its contraction (decrease) of the money supply and refused to save banks that were struggling with bank runs. This mistake, critics charge, allowed ...
The Alexander & Anna Schwartz Farm, located at 57 E. Rd. 70 in Dighton, Kansas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [1] It includes three buildings (a house built c.1928, a barn, and a smokehouse/cellar) and an Aermotor windmill. The house is built of structural hollow clay tile, also known as structural terra cotta. [2]
Anat Schwartz (Hebrew: עֲנָת שְׁווַרְץ; born 1978) is an Israeli filmmaker, television director, data analyst, and freelance writer. [1] Her films and the films she worked on, comprising mostly short documentary and narrative films, have been screened at major festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival .
Schwartz is a last name of German/([German]) origin, meaning "black" (modern spelling in German is schwarz ⓘ). It was originally a nickname for someone with black hair or a dark complexion. It may refer to: A. R. Schwartz (Aaron Robert Schwartz, 1926–2018), Texas politician; Abe Schwartz (1881–1963), musician; Al Schwartz, multiple people
Schwartz briefly performed on the stage in Holberg's Jeppe on the Hill but following her marriage in 1882, she devoted herself to her family. In 1899, with her husband's appointment as mayor, the family moved to Skagen where they became an active part of the cultural scene centred on the Skagen Painters, associating in particular with Anna and Michael Ancher who instructed their son Walther in ...