1. Emil Lederer was a Bohemian-born German economist and sociologist.
11 Facts About Emil Lederer
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Emil Lederer helped establish the "University in Exile" at the New School in New York City.
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Emil Lederer was born in 1882 to a Jewish merchant family.
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Emil Lederer studied law and national economy at Vienna University.
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In 1918, he was appointed assistant professor by Heidelberg University, but Emil Lederer remained in Austria until 1920.
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At Heidelberg University, Emil Lederer became assistant professor for social politics in 1920, and a full professor in the same year.
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Emil Lederer escaped to London, afterwards coming to the United States, where he co-founded the "University in Exile" at The New School for Social Research in New York City, which would become the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science.
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Emil Lederer was its first Dean until his sudden death in 1939, in the aftermath of an operation.
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Emil Lederer, who connected economics and sociology, was considered the most important supporter of interdisciplinary social sciences in Heidelberg.
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Emil Lederer, who published the social democratic theory magazine "Die Neue Zeit", was influenced by Karl Marx and Joseph Schumpeter.
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Emil Lederer did not support an unregulated free market: he examined the inefficiencies of monopolies, and partially denounced the positive effects of technical progress according to his stagnation theorem.