Gottfried Haberler: A Century Appreciation

Abstract

During the first week of July in 1936, an inter-national conference on the "Problems of Economic Change" was held in Annecy, France. It brought together such notable economists as Ludwig von Mises, Wilhelm Ropke, Oskar Morgenstern, Bertil Ohlin, Lionel Robbins, Dennis Robertson, Charles Rist, William Rappard, John B. Condliffe, John Van Sickle, Alvin Hansen, John Maurice Clark, and Jan Tinbergen.

The had come to this attractive French city south of Lake Geneva to discuss the problem of business cycles and their effect on the world economy. Little agreement was reached over the three days during which these leading economists met. But there was a single consensus among the attendees. One of the other participants at the conference, Gottfried Haberler, had set an example and standard for how research on the subject of business cycles should be undertaken. According to the official summary of the conference