Wolfgang Stolper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wolfgang Stolper

American economist

Date of Birth: 13-May-1912

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 31-Mar-2002

Profession: economist, university teacher

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Wolfgang Friedrich Stolper (13 May 1912 – 31 March 2002) was an American economist. Stolper was born in Vienna, the eldest son of economists Gustav Stolper and Toni Stolper.
In 1925 the family moved to Berlin and emigrated in 1933 to the United States.
In 1938 Stolper completed his economics studies at Harvard University.
He was a student of Joseph Schumpeter. From 1938 to 1943, Stolper was Assistant Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA.
In 1945, he participated in the Strategic Bombing Survey (Europe). From 1949, Stolper was Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1941 Stolper together with Paul A.
Samuelson proposed the Stolper–Samuelson theorem. In 1986 Stolper was a co-founder of the International Joseph A.
Schumpeter Society.