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Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer
Edwin Walter Kemmerer (June 29, 1875 - December 16, 1945) was an American economist who became famous as an economic adviser to foreign governments in many countries (Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala...view moreEdwin Walter Kemmerer (June 29, 1875 - December 16, 1945) was an American economist who became famous as an economic adviser to foreign governments in many countries (Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Germany, Chile, South Africa, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Peru, and Turkey), promoting plans based on strong currencies, the gold standard, central banks, and balanced budgets.
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1875, he graduated with honors and a Phi Beta Kappa key from Wesleyan University, and earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University, where he taught from 1906-1912. At 28, was appointed Financial Adviser to the U.S. Philippine Commission. In 1912 he became a professor at Princeton University, where he was made the first director of its new International Finance Section; by then Kemmerer had a well established reputation as an international “money doctor.”
Kemmerer was the author of Kemmerer on Money, published in 1934, and Gold and the Gold Standard: The Story of Gold Money Past, Present, and Future, published in 1944.
He died at the age 70 in Princeton, New Jersey in 1945.view less
Books by Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer
Gold and the Gold Standard: The Story of Gold Money, Past, Present and Future