Edith Hirsch (economist)
{{short description|German economist}}
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{{Infobox economist
| name = Edith Jarislowsky Hirsch
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|11|2|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Berlin, Germany
| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|01|07|1899|11|02|df=yes}}
| death_place = Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., United States{{cite news|title=Edith Hirsch, 103, Commodities Economist|work=The New York Times |date=3 February 2003 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/business/edith-hirsch-103-commodities-economist.html|accessdate=11 March 2015}}
| resting_place =
| resting_place_coordinates =
| field = Commodities economics
| alma_mater = University of Heidelberg
| spouse = Julius Hirsch
}}
Edith Jarislowsky Hirsch (2 November 1899 – 7 January 2003) was a commodities economist who worked as a consultant with her husband, Julius Hirsch, and published several papers after his death. She also taught at the New School for Social Research.
Biography
Edith Hirsch was born in Berlin, Germany to Adolph and Flora Jarislowsky.{{cite web|last1=Schlottmann|first1=Kevin|title=Guide to the Julius and Edith Hirsch Collection|url=http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=431109#|website=Leon Levy Archival Processing Initiative|publisher=Leon Levy Foundation|accessdate=11 March 2015}} She was the third of five siblings.{{cite web|last1=Hirsch|first1=Edith|title=Family History|url=https://archive.org/stream/juliusedithhirsc01hirs#page/n626/mode/1up|website=Leon Levy Archival Processing Initiative|publisher=Leon Levy Foundation|accessdate=11 March 2015}} Hirsch received a bachelor's degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1925. She met Julius Hirsch at the childhood home of Albert Einstein's wife, who was a good friend of her mother. They married in 1927 and their only child was born in 1928. In 1933, they emigrated to Copenhagen, and in 1941 they moved to the United States. Hirsch earned a master's degree in social science in 1943 at the New School for Social Research in New York. She and her husband taught at the school throughout the 1940s and 50s.{{cite news|title=To Offer Economics Courses|work=New York Times|date=January 26, 1952 }} She worked as a consultant for many companies with her husband. In 1961, Julius Hirsch died and Edith closed their consulting firm, although she continued publishing papers.{{cite book|last1=WorldCat|title=Hermann Tietz : Geschichte einer Familie und ihrer Warenhäuser|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776581086|via=WorldCat|publisher=OCLC|oclc=776581086|accessdate=29 March 2015}} She continued working into her later years. She moved to Washington in 1989 and died on January 7, 2003.
Published work
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Hirsches made several economic forecasts for the United States Department of Agriculture and for newspapers. Edith sometimes had to publish under Julius's name. These predictions involved fiscal expenditure forecasts,{{cite news|last1=Schneider|first1=Lou|title=Senate to Write Tax Bill|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19500602&id=uGA0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pesFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2675,529137&hl=en|accessdate=29 March 2015|work=The Miami News|date=June 2, 1950|archive-date=15 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215170252/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19500602&id=uGA0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pesFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2675,529137&hl=en|url-status=dead}} food price forecasts{{cite news|last1=Lissner|first1=Will|title= Cut in Beef Prices in Prospect in 1952|work=New York Times|date=December 25, 1951}}, and surplus and deficiency forecasts.{{cite news|last1=Lissner|first1=Will|title=World Surplus of Grains Indicated for '48–'49 Crops|work=New York Times|date=June 6, 1948}}{{cite news|last1=Moley|first1=Raymond|title=World Monetary Systems In Need of Some Reform|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M-ZXAAAAIBAJ&jtp=12|accessdate=29 March 2015|work=Spokane Daily Chronicle|date=Jan 25, 1949}} In 1965, Hirsch helped George Tietz edit his family's memoirs of owning the Hermann Tietz supermarket chain.{{cite web|last1=Lokaiczyk|first1=Robert|title=Hermann Tietz|url=http://buch-info.org/autor/Edith_Jarislowsky_Hirsch|website=Book Info|publisher=Dr. Robert Lokaiczyk}} After her husband's death, Edith continued working, publishing many works including Food Supplies in the Aftermath of World War II in 1993
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