Paul Einzig was an economic and political writer and journalist. He wrote 57 books, alongside many articles for newspapers and journals, and regular columns for the newspapers Financial News

Financial News

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 and Commercial and Financial Chronicle.

He was born in Braşov

Brasov

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, Transylvania

Transylvania

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, and educated in Hungary

Hungary

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, England

England

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 and France

France

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. He took a degree in Doctor of Political and Economic Sciences at the University of Paris

University of Paris

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from 1921 to 1923. He moved to England in 1919, becoming a citizen in 1929. He had a wife, Ruth, a son, Richard and a daughter.

Works

• How Money is Managed - The Ends and Means of Monetary Policy, (1954)
• The History of Foreign Exchange, (1962)
• "Primitive Money In its Ethnological, Historical and Economic Aspects", (1949, R1951, RR1963)

External links

• Janus: The Papers of Paul Einzig - Contains brief CV