Lowe, Adolf; Papers
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Table of Contents
Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical Sketch ...... 3 Scope and Contents ...... 5 Arrangement of the Collection ...... 6 Administrative Information ...... 6 Related Materials ...... 7 Controlled Access Headings ...... 7 Collection Inventory ...... 8 Personal Papers ...... 8 Correspondence ...... 9 Scholarly Writings ...... 18 Subseries 1: Articles, Reviews, and Books ...... 18 Subseries 2: Lectures ...... 21 Notes ...... 23 Lectures and Other Course Materials ...... 25 Research Materials ...... 30 Miscellaneous Professional Documents ...... 34
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Summary Information
Repository: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives Title: Adolph Lowe Papers ID: ger022 Date [inclusive]: 1915-1996 Physical Description: 5 cubic ft. Physical Location: The materials are located onsite in the department. Language of the English , German . Material: Abstract: Biographical material includes biographies; personal papers from teaching at the University of Kiel, 1926–31 and University of Manchester, 1933–40; papers from Lowe's 80th birthday (1973); Veblen–Commons Award, 1979; interview with Die Zeit, 1988; correspondence, 1928–91; writings by Lowe, including lectures, speeches, published and unpublished works. Lowe was one of the founders of the New School for Social Research comprised mostly of the German intellectual Émigrés to the USA prior to WWII. Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Adolph Lowe Papers, 1915-1996. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Lowe Papers).
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Biographical Sketch
Adolph Lowe was born in Stuttgart, Germany on March 4, 1893 to a middle-class Jewish family. His father, Alexander Löwe, was a merchant, and his mother, Ottilie Mayer Löwe, was a homemaker. After graduating from a gymnasium in Stuttgart, he studied at universities in Munich, Berlin, and Tübingen between 1911 and 1915. In 1914-15, he served in the German Army. In 1919, he married Beatrice Loewenstein. The couple had two daughters, Rachel Lowe Aubrey and Hanna Lowe Lustig.
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Löwe received his Dr. Jur. degree from the University of Tübingen in 1918, but his contacts with noted economic historian Lujo Brentano led him to become an economist. He served as an economic advisor to the Weimar government (1918-24), taking posts in the ministries of Demobilization, Labor, and Economic Affairs. While working for the Bureau of Statistics (1924-26), he began his academic career. He joined the faculty of the University of Kiel (1925-31) and established the Institute for Business Cycle Research (1925). He then served as director of research and educational studies (1926-30) and associate professor of economics (1930-31) at the Institute of World Economics. Between 1931 and 1933, he taught political economy at the University of Frankfurt.
In Spring 1933, Löwe was dismissed from his teaching post in accordance with the provisions of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. He was the first professor of social sciences to be dismissed by the Nazi government. A few months later, he and his wife decided to emigrate after their daughters were dismissed from school because of their "race". The family left for Britain just before the German government revoked the passports of those it defined as Jewish. Lowe, who anglicized the spelling of his name soon after his arrival in Britain, became a Rockefeller Foundation fellow (1933-38) and Manchester University lecturer.
While at Manchester, Lowe had the opportunity to pursue a wide range of intellectual interests. He held a dual appointment in economics and sociology, and his lecture notes reveal that Romantic literature and German history were among the topics covered in his courses. In his first book, Economics and Sociology: A Plea for Co-Operation in the Social Sciences (1935), he encouraged fellow economists to incorporate the insights of other social scientists into their analyses.
Lowe became a naturalized British subject in September 1939 and yearned to contribute to the war effort. However, the British government refused to place former German citizens in war-related government posts. Frustrated at being denied the opportunity to serve his new nation and fearful that he would lose his Manchester University lectureship, he began seeking employment in the United States. After receiving an offer from the New School for Social Research, Lowe and his family moved to New York City. Lowe was a professor of economics at the New School until his retirement in 1978, leaving only to take a one-year appointment at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1953).
While at the New School, Lowe continued to cultivate a broad range of intellectual interests and criticized what he saw as the parochialism of his colleagues. According to former student and close friend Robert Heilbroner, he was convinced that the general rise in affluence, the emergence of mammoth corporate entities benefitting from economies of scale, and increasing government regulation had stripped economists of the ability to predict accurately future developments. Convinced that comprehensive economic planning was essential to the public good, he concluded that the academic study of economics would regain its predictive ability only if it became an instrument of public policy. These arguments were outlined in On Economic Knowledge (1965) and expanded upon in Has Freedom A Future? (1989), in which he criticized what he saw as the hedonism of contemporary society and asserted that only a combination of collective consciousness and economic planning would safeguard individual freedom and social stability.
After Beatrice Lowe's death in 1982, Lowe returned to Germany to live with his daughter Hannah, who had settled in her country of birth several years before. He remained an active reader and writer of scholarly materials and established friendships with a number of young German economists. In 1988, he was the subject of a lengthy interview that appeared in Die Zeit, one of Germany's most highly
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Scope and Contents
The collection contains relatively little information about Lowe's education and early career, but Lowe was able to take a modest number of documents concerning his schooling and work when he left Germany. This small body of materials was subsequently augmented by scholars who studied Lowe's early work and sent him copies of German government documents and other records that detailed his activities in Germany.
Lowe's academic work in Britain and, in particular, the United States is more amply documented. The collection contains many of the lecture notes that he wrote while teaching at Manchester University and the New School for Social Research and numerous published and unpublished articles and essays. However, some of the writings that Lowe published during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s are not included.
The collection also contains numerous writings Lowe completed while working on Has Freedom a Future? (1989). Most notable are the "notes" that Lowe maintained between the 1960s and 1980s. The notes are in fact a detailed intellectual diary in which Lowe outlined his ideas about the relationship between economic security, equality, and human freedom and responded to the criticisms and suggestions of friends and associates. Simple chronological outlines and reading notes are interspersed throughout.
Lowe was a prolific correspondent, and the collection contains some of the letters that he wrote and received while residing in Great Britain and the United States and almost all of the correspondence he sent and received after his 1983 return to Germany. His letters to and from Robert Heilbroner, a former student, New School for Social Research faculty member, and lifelong friend, amply document their relationship as it existed during Lowe's later years. Many of the other correspondents represented in the collection were also associated with the New School. Among them: Gerhard Colm (1965), Dorothy Dinnerstein (1978, 1984-85, 1987-88), Jonathan Fanton (1983-86, 1988), Mary Henle (1965, 1983-90), Mary Jacker (1983-90, 1992), Alvin Johnson (1965), Hans Jonas (1943, 1964, 1977, 1983-92?), Ira Katznelson (1984-88), Arien Mack (1984, 1988), Marianne Marschak (1983-91), Edward Nell (1981, 1983-85, 1987-88) and Hans Staudinger (1964-66, 1970, 1979-81). Other notable correspondents include Daniel Bell (1987), T.S. Eliot (1947), former student Marion Gräfin Dünhof (Marion Countess Dünhof; 1979-80, 1984-91), Reinhold Niebuhr (1950), Eleanor Roosevelt (1943), and Sir Geoffrey Vickers (1965, 1967-68, 1975-76, 1980, 1982). The correspondence also sheds light upon Lowe's interactions with his daughters Rachel Aubrey and Hanna Lustig and several of his grandchildren.
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Other materials of interest include the scholarly writings that Lowe gathered in connection with his research. Many of these articles and essays contain detailed analyses of his own work and were presented to him by their authors; some are in typescript form. Others, among them published and unpublished papers by Robert Heilbroner, Hans Jonas, and Hans Staudinger, address intellectual and social issues with which Lowe was concerned.
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Arrangement of the Collection
The collection is organized into seven series.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives
Revision Description EAD file created Encoded in EAD by Conversion and encoding by ArchProteus 2014 2015
Processing Information Processed in 1999 by Bonita L. Weddle, August 31, 1999; revised by Sandra Hunt Hawrylchak, February 2006.
Acquisition Information The materials in this collection were donated to the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives by John Spalek, who had received them from Claus-Dieter Krohn, in February 1996.
Existence and Location of Copies All newsprint materials and a number of brittle documents were photocopied for preservation purposes.
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Access Access to this record group is unrestricted.
Copyright The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
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Related Materials
Related Materials The collection does not contain any materials generated by theologian Paul Tillich, who was one of Lowe's close friends. Researchers looking for materials that document their friendship should consult the archives of the New School for Social Research, which holds other papers that Lowe produced or collected, and the Andover-Harvard Theological Library of Harvard University, which holds the bulk of Tillich's papers. The Open University holds the papers of Geoffrey Vickers (Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers) with whom Lowe corresponded. Other repositories may also have such materials.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Economics • Economists -- Germany. • Germany -- Economic policy. • Economics -- Study and teaching. • Economics -- Sociological aspects. • Lowe, Adolph, 1893- • Colm, Gerhard, 1897-1968. • Heilbroner, Robert L. • Johnson, Alvin Saunders, 1874-1971. • Jonas, Hans, 1903-1993.
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Collection Inventory
Personal Papers, 1915-1995 Physical Description: 0.25 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This series contains a number of documents that shed light on Lowe's personal life: photocopies of his British naturalization papers and academic degrees, a photograph and pamphlet produced in conjunction with a celebration at the University of Kiel, death notices and eulogies he delivered at the funerals of friends, a history of a charitable organization he helped to establish, materials generated in connection with his eightieth birthday party, and a bound volume of greetings presented to him on his one-hundredth birthday.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Title/Description Instances Photocopied Personal Documents, 1915-1973 Box 1 (1- Folder 1 Personal Papers)
University of Kiel, 1926-1931 Box 1 (1- Folder 2 Personal Papers)
Autobiographical and Biographical Materials, 1941-1995 Box 1 (1- Folder 3 Personal Papers)
Memorials to Colleagues and Friends, 1959-1977 Box 1 (1- Folder 4 Personal Papers)
Eightieth Birthday Dinner, 1973 Box 1 (1- Folder 5 Personal Papers)
Eightieth Birthday Speech, 1973 Box 1 (1- Folder 6 Personal Papers)
Selfhelp Community Services, A Selfhelp History, 1986
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Box 1 (1- Folder 7 Personal Papers)
One Hundredth Birthday Celebration, Johann Wolfgang Goethe- Box 1 (1- Folder 8 Universität, 1993 Personal Papers)
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Correspondence, 1928-1995 (1983-1990) Physical Description: 2 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This series contains letters that Lowe received and, in many instances, carbon copies of letters that he wrote. Much of the correspondence is from other members of the faculty of the New School for Social Research and from other academic economists, but the series also includes many letters written by Lowe's daughters and grandchildren.
Members of the Graduate Faculty of the University in Exile/New School for Social Research represented include Jan-Robert Bloch, Gerhard Colm, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Jonathan Fanton, Robert Heilbroner, Mary Henle, Mary Jacker, Alvin Johnson, Hans Jonas, Ira Katznelson, Marianne Marschak, and Hans Staudinger. The subseries also contains Lowe's correspondence with former students Murray Brown and Marion Gräfin Dünhof (Marion Countess Dünhof) and economists Heiner Ganssmann, Harald Hagemann, Sigfried Ketterle, Claus-Dieter Krohn, Heinz- Dieter Kurz, Allen Oakley, and Sir Geoffrey Vickers. NB: Other correspondence from these individuals is in some instances located elsewhere in the collection. In most instances, photocopies of these materials have been inserted into this series. Other notable correspondents include Ruth Nanda Anshen, Daniel Bell (1987), T.S. Eliot (1947), Terence W. Hutchinson (1970, 1976?), Leo Lowenthal (1983, 1986), Reinhold Niebuhr (1950), Eleanor Roosevelt (1948), and Leo Strauss (1949). Also included is a copy of a 1986 letter that Lowe sent to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and a response from Peres' secretary.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Title/Description Instances One Hundredth Birthday Greetings, 1993 Box 1 (2- Folder 9 Correspondence)
Family correspondence Title/Description Instances Aubrey, Rachel (daughter), 1983-1991 Box 1 (2- Folder 10 Correspondence)
Lustig, Hanna (daughter), 1985-1987 Box 1 (2- Folder 11 Correspondence)
Rustow, Janet (granddaughter), 1983-1990 Box 1 (2- Folder 12 Correspondence)
Grandchildren (Stephen, Roger, Sandy, Cathy), 1983-1991
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Box 1 (2- Folder 13 Correspondence)
Correspondence, England, 1938-1940 Box 1 (2- Folder 14 Correspondence)
Correspondence with colleagues, friends Title/Description Instances A -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 1 (2- Folder 15 Correspondence)
Albrecht, Renate, 1980-1990 Box 1 (2- Folder 16 Correspondence)
Amendola, Mario, 1984-1985 Box 1 (2- Folder 17 Correspondence)
Anshen, Ruth Nanda, 1983-1988 Box 1 (2- Folder 18 Correspondence)
Archibugi, Franco, 1987 Box 1 (2- Folder 19 Correspondence)
B -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 1 (2- Folder 20 Correspondence)
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review (Alessandro Box 1 (2- Folder 21 Roncaglia), 1989-1991 Correspondence)
Baranzini, Mauro, 1986 Box 1 (2- Folder 22 Correspondence)
Bell, Daniel, 1987 Box 1 (2- Folder 23 Correspondence)
Bendix, Reinhard, 1988 Box 1 (2- Folder 24 Correspondence)
Bernstein, Peter L., 1983-1989 Box 1 (2- Folder 25 Correspondence)
Universität Bielefeld (Otthein Rammstedt, Rüdiger Kramme), Box 1 (2- Folder 26 1989-1990 Correspondence)
Billikopf, Jacob, 1948 Box 1 (2- Folder 27 Correspondence)
Bloch, Jan-Robert, 1984-1990 Box 1 (2- Folder 28 Correspondence)
Borchers, Detlef, 1986 Box 1 (2- Folder 29 Correspondence)
Brandt, Karl; Dietrich Pohmer, 1962-1963 Box 1 (2- Folder 30 Correspondence)
Brown, Murray, 19651980-1991 Box 1 (2- Folder 31 Correspondence)
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(includes writings).
Brummerlich, Irmtraud, 1986-1988 Box 1 (2- Folder 32 Correspondence)
Burchardt, Arne, 19651984-1992 Box 1 (2- Folder 33 Correspondence)
Burchardt, Fritz (Frank) A., 1946-1949 Box 1 (2- Folder 34 Correspondence)
C - D -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 1 (2- Folder 35 Correspondence)
Chase, Richard, 1979-1985 Box 1 (2- Folder 36 Correspondence)
Clark, David, 1984-1987 Box 1 (2- Folder 37 Correspondence)
Dickinson, John K., 1985-1990 Box 1 (2- Folder 38 Correspondence)
Dinnerstein, Dorothy, 1978-1990 Box 1 (2- Folder 39 Correspondence)
Dönhoff, Marion Gräfin, 1979-1991 Box 1 (2- Folder 40 Correspondence)
E - G -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 1 (2- Folder 41 Correspondence)
Earley, Glenn D., 1981 Box 1 (2- Folder 42 Correspondence)
Eatwell, John (The New Palgrave), 1984 Box 1 (2- Folder 43 Correspondence)
Eliot, T. S., 1947 Box 1 (2- Folder 44 Correspondence)
"The Exiles" Project (Lou Potter, Richard Kaplan), 1985-1989 Box 1 (2- Folder 45 Correspondence)
Fanton, Jonathan, 1983-1990 Box 1 (2- Folder 46 Correspondence)
Feltman, Karesh & Major (Lee Feltman), 1983-1990 Box 1 (2- Folder 47 Correspondence)
Franke, Horst-Werner, 1988 Box 1 (2- Folder 48 Correspondence)
Freund, Rudolf, 1948 Box 1 (2- Folder 49 Correspondence)
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Freund, Susi, 1984-1988.
Ganssmann, Heiner, 1983-1990 Box 1 (2- Folder 50 Correspondence)
Gates, Robert A., 1988-1989 Box 1 (2- Folder 51 Correspondence)
Greffrath, Mathias, 1982-1989 Box 1 (2- Folder 52 Correspondence)
H - J -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 1 (2- Folder 53 Correspondence)
Hagemann, Harald, 1978-1995 Box 2 (2- Folder 1 Correspondence)
Halasi, Albert, 1950 Box 2 (2- Folder 2 Correspondence)
Hartwich, Horst W., 1963 Box 2 (2- Folder 3 Correspondence)
Harvey, Philip, 1984-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 4 Correspondence)
Hatlapa, Christoph, 1984-1985 Box 2 (2- Folder 5 Correspondence)
Hatzfeldt, Hermann Graf, 1983-1985 Box 2 (2- Folder 6 Correspondence)
Heilbroner, Robert, 19531962-1984 Box 2 (2- Folder 7 Correspondence)
Heilbroner, Robert, 1985-1986 Box 2 (2- Folder 8 Correspondence)
Heilbroner, Robert, 1987-1991 Box 2 (2- Folder 9 Correspondence)
Heinitz, Ernst, 1963 Box 2 (2- Folder 10 Correspondence)
Heise, Arne, 1984 Box 2 (2- Folder 11 Correspondence)
Henle, Mary, 19651983-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 12 Correspondence)
Hennis, Wilhelm, 19851987 Box 2 (2- Folder 13 Correspondence)
Hering, Frank, 1978 Box 2 (2- Folder 14 Correspondence)
Herz, Hannah, 1985-1989
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Box 2 (2- Folder 15 Correspondence)
Hillmann, Hermann, 1983-1990 Box 2 (2- Folder 16 Correspondence)
Hirschler, Otto E. & Eva, 1984-1990 Box 2 (2- Folder 17 Correspondence)
Holland, Eva, 1986-1988 Box 2 (2- Folder 18 Correspondence)
Holton, Gerald, ca. 1965 Box 2 (2- Folder 19 Correspondence)
Hoselitz, Bert F., 1949 Box 2 (2- Folder 20 Correspondence)
Hosiosky, Issai, 1983-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 21 Correspondence)
Hula, Erich, 196819751983-1985 Box 2 (2- Folder 22 Correspondence)
Hutchinson, Terrence W., 19701976 Box 2 (2- Folder 23 Correspondence)
Jacker, Mary, 1983-1992 Box 2 (2- Folder 24 Correspondence)
Jeffery, J. B., 1948 Box 2 (2- Folder 25 Correspondence)
Jewkes, John, 1939-1940 Box 2 (2- Folder 26 Correspondence)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Box 2 (2- Folder 27 19631983-1990 Correspondence)
Jonas, Hans, 1943-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 28 Digital Object: Online Object Uploaded through Hyrax UI Correspondence) Scope and Contents
Jonas, Lore, 1989-1992.
K -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 2 (2- Folder 29 Correspondence)
Katterle, Sigfried, 1982-1983 Box 2 (2- Folder 30 Correspondence)
Katznelson, Ira, 1983-1991 Box 2 (2- Folder 31 Correspondence)
Koebner, R., 1948 Box 2 (2- Folder 32 Correspondence)
Krohn, Claus-Dieter, 1983-1989
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Box 2 (2- Folder 33 Correspondence)
Krüsselberg, H. G., 1983-1988 Box 2 (2- Folder 34 Correspondence)
Kurz, Heinz-Dieter, 1980-1991 Box 2 (2- Folder 35 Correspondence)
L - M -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 2 (2- Folder 36 Correspondence)
Landauer, Carl, 1983-1984 Box 2 (2- Folder 37 Correspondence)
Landmann, Michael, 1976 Box 2 (2- Folder 38 Correspondence)
Laski, Harold J., 1940 Box 2 (2- Folder 39 Correspondence)
Lerner, Abba P., 1971 Box 2 (2- Folder 40 Correspondence)
Lewy, Hermann, 1969 Box 2 (2- Folder 41 Correspondence)
Lindsay, A. D., 1940 Box 2 (2- Folder 42 Correspondence)
Lion, Bertha (Bertel), 1984-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 43 Correspondence)
Lissner, Will, 1983-1990 Box 2 (2- Folder 44 Correspondence)
Loewenstein, Eva, 1985-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 45 Correspondence)
Lowenthal, Leo, 1983-1986 Box 2 (2- Folder 46 Correspondence)
Luckmann, Benita, 1984 Box 2 (2- Folder 47 Correspondence)
Luetkens, Charlotte, 19391949-1950 Box 2 (2- Folder 48 Correspondence)
Mack, Arien (Social Research), 1983-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 49 Correspondence)
Marschak, Jacob, 1949 Box 2 (2- Folder 50 Correspondence)
Marschak, Marianne, 1983-1991 Box 2 (2- Folder 51 Correspondence) Scope and Contents
(includes writings).
Merten, Hans, 1949
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Box 2 (2- Folder 52 Correspondence)
Miller, Pamela, 1982-1990 Box 2 (2- Folder 53 Correspondence)
Morgenstern, Oskar, 1928 Box 2 (2- Folder 54 Correspondence)
N - Q -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 2 (2- Folder 55 Correspondence)
Neisser, Charlotte, 1985-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 56 Correspondence)
Nell, Ed, 1981-1985 Box 2 (2- Folder 57 Correspondence)
Neumark, Fritz, 1983-1984 Box 2 (2- Folder 58 Correspondence)
New School for Social Research, general, 1984-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 59 Correspondence)
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1950 Box 2 (2- Folder 60 Correspondence)
Niemann, Gerhard, 1985 Box 2 (2- Folder 61 Correspondence)
Oakley, Allen, 1984-1991 Box 2 (2- Folder 62 Correspondence)
O'Neill, Onora, 1984 Box 2 (2- Folder 63 Correspondence)
Opolka, Uwe, 19841988 Box 2 (2- Folder 64 Correspondence)
Oppenheimer, Ludwig, 1948 Box 2 (2- Folder 65 Correspondence)
Ossofsky, Mindy, 1983-1988 Box 2 (2- Folder 66 Correspondence)
Peres, Shimon (secretary), 1986 Box 2 (2- Folder 67 Correspondence)
Petersen, Aage, 1968 Box 2 (2- Folder 68 Correspondence)
Pfleiderer, Otto, 1983-1989 Box 2 (2- Folder 69 Correspondence)
Pichottka, Ilse, 1985-1986 Box 2 (2- Folder 70 Correspondence)
Pinner, Frank A., 1962 Box 2 (2- Folder 71 Correspondence)
Pollock, Frederick, 1949
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Box 2 (2- Folder 72 Correspondence)
Pulrang, Stanford, 1978-1987 Box 2 (2- Folder 73 Correspondence)
R - S -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 2 (2- Folder 74 Correspondence)
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1943 Box 2 (2- Folder 75 Correspondence)
Ruppin, A., 1940 Box 2 (2- Folder 76 Correspondence)
Rustow (Rüstow), Alexander, 1929-1951 Box 2 (2- Folder 77 Correspondence)
Ruttkoff, Peter, 1984-1985 Box 2 (2- Folder 78 Correspondence)
Schefold, Bertram, 1983-1990 Box 2 (2- Folder 79 Correspondence)
Schulin, Ernst, 1982-1985 Box 2 (2- Folder 80 Correspondence)
Sommer, Artur, 1950 Box 2 (2- Folder 81 Correspondence)
Sondergeld, Klaus, 1983 Box 2 (2- Folder 82 Correspondence)
Spulber, Nicolas, 1983-1993 Box 2 (2- Folder 83 Correspondence)
Srubar, Ilja, 19841988 Box 2 (2- Folder 84 Correspondence)
Staudinger, Hans, 19511964-1981 Box 3 (2- Folder 1 Correspondence) Scope and Contents
(includes biographical material).
Staudinger, Hansjürgen, 1984-1990 Box 3 (2- Folder 2 Correspondence)
Stock, Werner, 1983 Box 3 (2- Folder 3 Correspondence)
Strauss, Leo, 1949 Box 3 (2- Folder 4 Correspondence)
T - Z -- miscellaneous correspondence, Undated Box 3 (2- Folder 5 Correspondence)
Taub, Menachem, 1983-1991 Box 3 (2- Folder 6 Correspondence)
Tillich, Paul, 1949
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Scope and Contents Box 3 (2- Folder 7 Correspondence) Tillich, Hannah, 1988.
Treuherz, Werner, 19831987 Box 3 (2- Folder 8 Correspondence)
Vickers, Geoffrey, 19491965-1982 Box 3 (2- Folder 9 Correspondence) Scope and Contents
(includes writings).
Vickers, Jeanne, 1983-1990 Box 3 (2- Folder 10 Correspondence)
Vogelstein, Theodor M., 1950-1951 Box 3 (2- Folder 11 Correspondence)
von Eynern, Gert, 1962-19631984 Box 3 (2- Folder 12 Correspondence)
Vuagnat, Fréderique, 1983-1984 Box 3 (2- Folder 13 Correspondence)
Waldman, Frederic (Fritz), 1986 Box 3 (2- Folder 14 Correspondence)
Wallace, Edith, 1983-1990 Box 3 (2- Folder 15 Correspondence)
Waubke, M., 1984-1989 Box 3 (2- Folder 16 Correspondence)
Weber, Alfred, 1950 Box 3 (2- Folder 17 Correspondence)
White, Howard, 1951 Box 3 (2- Folder 18 Correspondence)
Wunderlich, [Frieda?], 1950 Box 3 (2- Folder 19 Correspondence)
Correspondence Concerning "Notes on University Education", Box 3 (2- Folder 20 1940 Correspondence)
Correspondence Concerning "On Economic Knowledge", Box 3 (2- Folder 21 1965-1971 Correspondence)
Correspondence with publishers Title/Description Instances Cambridge University Press, 19761983 Box 3 (2- Folder 22 Correspondence)
Insel Verlag, 1987-1988
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Box 3 (2- Folder 23 Correspondence)
M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1979-1991 Box 3 (2- Folder 24 Correspondence)
New York University Press, concerning "Essays in Political Box 3 (2- Folder 25 Economics", 1987 Correspondence)
Praeger (Greenwood Press), 1986-1990 Box 3 (2- Folder 26 Correspondence)
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Scholarly Writings, 1932-ca. 1990 Physical Description: 0.90 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This series contains many of Lowe's articles, book manuscripts, and notes for lectures delivered before various academic and civic groups. Most of these materials were written while Lowe lived in Great Britain and the United States, but the earliest and most recent materials were produced while he resided in Germany.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically within subseries.
Subseries 1: Articles, Reviews, and Books, 1932-ca. 1990 Physical Description: 0.60 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains some of Lowe's published and unpublished studies of economics, sociology, and current affairs. Highlights include a lengthy essay written in the form of a letter to his close friend Hans Jonas, unpublished materials that he apparently drafted while writing Has Freedom a Future?, and a complete typescript of the book itself.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Title/Description Instances "Über den Sinn und die Grenzen verstehender Box 3 (3- Folder 27 Nationalökonomie" (published), 1932 Scholarly Writings)
"The Social Productivity of Technical Box 3 (3- Folder 28 Improvements" (published), 1937 Scholarly Writings)
Review of Middleton Murry, In Defence of Democracy (unpublished TS), and letter, 1938
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Box 3 (3- Folder 29 Scholarly Writings)
"The Technique of Economic Mobilization" (unpublished TS), Box 3 (3- Folder 30 1939 Scholarly Writings)
"On the Introduction of the Social Sciences . . . at the Hebrew Box 3 (3- Folder 31 University" (unpublished TS), 1939 Scholarly Writings)
"Nationalism and the Economic Order" (published), 1939? Box 3 (3- Folder 32 Scholarly Writings)
"Social Transformation and the War" (published letter), 1940 Box 3 (3- Folder 33 Scholarly Writings)
Newspaper Articles on Germany, Britain, and the Second World Box 3 (3- Folder 34 War (published), 1940 Scholarly Writings)
Analysis of British Economic Problems (unpublished TS), Box 3 (3- Folder 35 1940? Scholarly Writings)
"A Reconsideration of the Laws of Supply and Box 3 (3- Folder 36 Demand" (published), 1942 Scholarly Writings)
"The Study of World Affairs" (published), 1943 Box 3 (3- Folder 37 Scholarly Writings)
"The Trend of World Economics" (published), 1944 Box 3 (3- Folder 38 Scholarly Writings)
"To A German Friend Behind Bars" (unpublished MS), 1950 Box 3 (3- Folder 39 Scholarly Writings)
"On the Mechanistic Approach in Economics" (published), 1951 Box 3 (3- Folder 40 Scholarly Writings)
"Rejoinder [to James Parsons]" (published), 1952 Box 3 (3- Folder 41 Scholarly Writings)
Preface to the Japanese edition of On Economic Knowledge Box 3 (3- Folder 42 (unpublished TS), 1953 Scholarly Writings)
"The Classical Theory of Economic Growth" (published), 1954 Box 3 (3- Folder 43 Scholarly Writings)
"Wirtschaftstheorie --Der nächste Schritt" (published), 1959 - Page 19- Lowe, Adolf; Papers
Box 3 (3- Folder 44 Scholarly Writings)
"Über eine dritte Kraft" (published), 1961 Box 3 (3- Folder 45 Scholarly Writings)
"S Is Not Yet P: A Question Put to Ernst Bloch" (unpublished Box 3 (3- Folder 46 TS), 1964-1965 Scholarly Writings)
Letter to Hans Jonas, 1966 Box 3 (3- Folder 47 Digital Object: Online Object Uploaded through Hyrax UI Scholarly Writings) Scope and Contents
(unpublished typescripts) and notes.
"The Normative Roots of Economic Value" (unpublished TS), Box 3 (3- Folder 48 1967 Scholarly Writings)
"Vorbemerkung" (unpublished TS), 1968 Box 3 (3- Folder 49 Scholarly Writings)
"Die Leiden des alten Atlas: Ernst Bloch zum fuenfundachtigen Box 3 (3- Folder 50 Gerburtstag" (unpublished TS), ca. 1970 Scholarly Writings)
"Personal Freedom in an Era of Social Box 3 (3- Folder 51 Engineering" (unpublished TS), and "Comments on Middleton Scholarly Murry's Paper" (unpublished TS), 1973 Writings)
"Technical Profits" (unpublished TS), 1977 Box 3 (3- Folder 52 Scholarly Writings)
"Über das Dunkel des gelebten Augenblicks", 1978? Box 3 (3- Folder 53 Scholarly Scope and Contents Writings) (unpublished typescripts) and notes.
"Atlas: The Burden of the Man Without Chains" (unpublished Box 3 (3- Folder 54 TS), ca. 1980 Scholarly Writings)
"To Rid Loans of the Inflation Risk" (published letter), 1981 Box 3 (3- Folder 55 Scholarly Writings)
"The Specter of Technological Unemployment" (unpublished Box 3 (3- Folder 56 TS), 1987? Scholarly Writings)
Has Freedom a Future? (unpublished TS), 1987
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Box 3 (3- Folder 57 Scholarly Writings)
"Freiheit und Ordnung" (unpublished TS), 1988? Box 3 (3- Folder 58 Scholarly Writings)
Lecture Notes on Simmel's "Philosophie der Griechen", Undated Box 3 (3- Folder 59 Scholarly Scope and Contents Writings) (unpublished manuscript), 1913, and Transcript (unpublished typescript), ca. 1990.
"Technological Unemployment Reexamined" (published), Box 3 (3- Folder 60 Undated Scholarly Writings)
"The Paradigms of Positive Economics" (unpublished TS) and Box 3 (3- Folder 61 "The Marxian Paradigm" (unpublished TS), Undated Scholarly Writings)
"The Economic Mechanism" (unpublished TS), Undated Box 3 (3- Folder 62 Scholarly Writings)
"Adam Smith's System of Equilibrium Growth" (published), Box 3 (3- Folder 63 Undated Scholarly Writings)
Subseries 2: Lectures, 1932-1983 Physical Description: 0.30 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This sub-series consists of notes for lectures that Lowe delivered at various academic institutions and before various community groups. Some of these speeches were given before the New School's Study Group on Germany (1942-43) and its General Seminar, an interdisciplinary forum at which faculty members discussed their work.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Title/Description Instances "The Future of English Democracy and the Jews" (unpublished Box 4 (3- Folder 1 MS), 1932 Scholarly Writings)
"Der Sozialismus ist heute . . . !" (unpublished MS), 1933 Box 4 (3- Folder 2 Scholarly Writings)
"Sind die Denken andersartig?" (unpublished MS), ca. 1935
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Box 4 (3- Folder 3 Scholarly Writings)
"The University in the Modern World" (unpublished MS), 1938 Box 4 (3- Folder 4 Scholarly Writings)
"Democracy and Freedom" (unpublished MS), 1939 Box 4 (3- Folder 5 Scholarly Writings)
"What Is It All About?", 1940 Box 4 (3- Folder 6 Scholarly Writings)
"National Council of Women" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (3- Folder 7 Scholarly Writings)
"Self-Help" (unpublished MS), 1942 Box 4 (3- Folder 8 Scholarly Writings)
"Characteristic Facts and Events Relating to German History Box 4 (3- Folder 9 before 1500" (unpublished MS), 1942 Scholarly Writings)
"Sind die Denken andersartig?" (unpublished MS), 1942 Box 4 (3- Folder 10 Scholarly Writings)
"Higher Education in U.S". (unpublished MS), 1944 Box 4 (3- Folder 11 Scholarly Writings)
"Economic Planning and Common Sense" (unpublished MS), Box 4 (3- Folder 12 1945 Scholarly Writings)
"What Can We Do? [1]" (unpublished MS), 1946 Box 4 (3- Folder 13 Scholarly Writings)
"What Can We Do? [2]" (unpublished MS), 1946 Box 4 (3- Folder 14 Scholarly Writings)
"Integration in the Social Sciences?" (unpublished MS), 1950 Box 4 (3- Folder 15 Scholarly Writings)
"America's Problem in the World Today: What It Box 4 (3- Folder 16 Is" (unpublished TS), 1952 Scholarly Writings)
"America's Problem in the World Today: What It Should Box 4 (3- Folder 17 Be" (unpublished TS), 1952 Scholarly Writings)
"Europe Revisited" (unpublished MS), 1952 - Page 22- Lowe, Adolf; Papers
Box 4 (3- Folder 18 Scholarly Writings)
"Europe in the Old Order of World Affairs" (unpublished MS), Box 4 (3- Folder 19 1952 Scholarly Writings)
"The Meaning of the Contemporary Crisis" (unpublished MS), Box 4 (3- Folder 20 1952 Scholarly Writings)
"The Next Step" (unpublished MS), 1952 Box 4 (3- Folder 21 Scholarly Writings)
"Cooperation in the Social Sciences?" (unpublished MS), 1953 Box 4 (3- Folder 22 Scholarly Writings)
"Cooperation in the Social Sciences?" (unpublished TS), 1955 Box 4 (3- Folder 23 Scholarly Writings)
"Prediction in Economics" (unpublished TS), 1958 Box 4 (3- Folder 24 Scholarly Writings)
"Zur Ortsbestimmung der Gegenwart" (unpublished TS), 1983 Box 4 (3- Folder 25 Scholarly Writings)
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Notes, 1964-1990 Physical Description: 0.25 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This series contains Lowe's notes on various subjects. Some are simple reading notes or chronological outlines, but most of the notes comprise a detailed intellectual diary that Lowe maintained for more than twenty-five years. These notes, which document Lowe's efforts to refine his ideas about human freedom, state planning, and technological change and were apparently created in preparation for the writing of Has Freedom a Future?, also record his conversations with colleagues and difficulties in writing the book.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Title/Description Instances "SILS", 1964-1986 Box 4 (4- Folder 26 Notes)
"Ruminations on a New Book", 1965
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Box 4 (4- Folder 27 Notes)
"Explorations", 1965-1967 Box 4 (4- Folder 28 Notes)
"Credo-Notes", 1966 Box 4 (4- Folder 29 Notes)
"Notes on 'Ought'", 1966 Box 4 (4- Folder 30 Notes)
Notes on the Jonas Letter, 1966-1979 Box 4 (4- Folder 31 Digital Object: Online Object Uploaded through Hyrax UI Notes)
"The Year 2000", 1968 Box 4 (4- Folder 32 Notes)
"Atlas", 1969-1976 Box 4 (4- Folder 33 Notes)
"Political Economics", 1974-1976 Box 4 (4- Folder 34 Notes)
"History of H-Bomb" (c.1975) and "My Dear Paul" (1943; revised Box 4 (4- Folder 35 1987), ca. 1975-1987 Notes)
"Prometheus", 1976-1979 Box 4 (4- Folder 36 Notes)
"Prometheus [Continued]", 1980-1983 Box 4 (4- Folder 37 Notes)
"Some Comments on 'Generalrevision'", 1983-1984 Box 4 (4- Folder 38 Notes)
Unidentified Notes, 1978 Box 4 (4- Folder 39 Notes)
Notes on various subjects, probably for Has Freedom a Future?, Box 4 (4- Folder 40 ca. 1980 Notes)
"Deutsche Skizze", ca. 1980 Box 4 (4- Folder 41 Notes)
"Interview", 1987-1988 Box 4 (4- Folder 42 Notes)
"An Attempt at Clarification", 1987-1988 Box 4 (4- Folder 43 Notes)
"New Book", 1988 Box 4 (4- Folder 44 Notes)
"Free Association", 1990 Box 4 (4- Folder 45 Notes)
"Free Association [continued]", 1990 Box 4 (4- Folder 46 Notes)
"Comments on the 'Kiel School'", Undated
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Box 4 (4- Folder 47 Notes)
"Sehr Geerhter Becknaa" and "Main Point", Undated Box 4 (4- Folder 48 Notes)
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Lectures and Other Course Materials, ca. 1925-1981 Physical Description: 0.60 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This series contains materials that Lowe created and maintained in connection with his teaching activities at the University of Kiel, the University of Frankfurt, Manchester University, and the New School for Social Research. Lecture notes generated while Lowe was at Manchester (among them a few lectures for the Worker's Educational Association) and the New School predominate. Also included are an outline for a political theory course he taught at the University of Kiel (1930), the syllabus (1951) for his "Theory of Capitalism" course at the New School, and reading notes he used in preparing various lectures.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Title/Description Instances Seminar Notes on Political Theory, ca. 1925-1933 Box 4 (5- Folder 49 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Summary Outline of Theoretical Seminar (unpublished TS), 1930 Box 4 (5- Folder 50 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Lectures and Notes on Political Economics, ca. 1935-1966 Box 4 (5- Folder 51 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The Spirit of Citizenship" (unpublished MS), 1937 Box 4 (5- Folder 52 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The Gist of English Democracy" (unpublished MS), 1938 Box 4 (5- Folder 53 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Essay Class: Modern Political Thought" (unpublished MS), 1939 Box 4 (5- Folder 54 Lectures and
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Other Course Materials)
" A German Looks at Baldwin" (unpublished MS), 1939 Box 4 (5- Folder 55 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The Social Foundations of English Liberty" (unpublished MS), Box 4 (5- Folder 56 1939 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Faschism [sic]" (unpublished MS), 1939 Box 4 (5- Folder 57 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"War Aims" (unpublished MS), 1939 Box 4 (5- Folder 58 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Our Attitude to Germany" (unpublished MS), 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 59 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The Reform of Germany" (unpublished MS), 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 60 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Social Transformation and the War" (unpublished MS), 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 61 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Lecture on War Aims (unpublished MS), 1940? Box 4 (5- Folder 62 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The National and Constitutional Problem in circa 17 Box 4 (5- Folder 63 Germany" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"German Attitude Toward Classical Economics" (unpublished Box 4 (5- Folder 64 MS), ca. 1940 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Lectures on English Reform and Napoleon (unpublished MS), ca. Box 4 (5- Folder 65 1940 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"On Freedom" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 66 Lectures and - Page 26- Lowe, Adolf; Papers
Other Course Materials)
"Age of Reform" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 67 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Prussia in C[entury] 18" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 68 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Pro National Government!" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 69 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The Lesson of the Ab[yssinian] Dispute" (unpublished MS), ca. Box 4 (5- Folder 70 1940 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Problem und Wirtschaftstheorie" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 71 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Romantic Movement [1]" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 72 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Romantik" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 73 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Main Points in German Romanticism" (unpublished MS), ca. Box 4 (5- Folder 74 1940 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Romantic Movement [2]" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 75 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Goethe" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 76 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Material for Paper on Locke-Kant" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 77 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Locke-Kant" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 78 Lectures and - Page 27- Lowe, Adolf; Papers
Other Course Materials)
"German Literature of C[entury] 17" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 79 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Hillmann[?] --Discussion" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 80 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"I.S.S. --Paper" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 81 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Notes on various readings, ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 82 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Untitled Notes on a Paper, ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 83 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"General Agenda for Seminar IV" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 84 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The Rise of Agrarian Capitalism" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 85 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Discussion Knights" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 86 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Summary for the Paper on 'Reformation'" (unpublished MS), ca. Box 4 (5- Folder 87 1940 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Summary (Reformation)" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 88 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Geography Paper from Dunlop" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 89 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Race" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 90 Lectures and - Page 28- Lowe, Adolf; Papers
Other Course Materials)
"Seminar III: Oldfield" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 91 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Seminar --Introduction" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 92 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The German Idea of Freedom" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 93 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The Spirit of English Democracy" (unpublished MS), ca. 1940 Box 4 (5- Folder 94 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"The New Problem of the English Intelligentsia" (unpublished Box 4 (5- Folder 95 MS), ca. 1940 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"British War Economy" (unpublished MS), 1941 Box 4 (5- Folder 96 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"Economic Controls and Political Power" (unpublished MS), 1941 Box 4 (5- Folder 97 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Lectures and Notes on Classical and Modern Theories of Box 4 (5- Folder 98 Economic Growth, 1947-1960 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Course Syllabus, "Theory of Capitalism" (unpublished TS), 1951 Box 4 (5- Folder 99 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Lectures and Notes on World Economics, ca. 1955 Box 4 (5- Folder 100 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Lectures and Notes on Value, Clark, Hicks, Walras, and Marx, ca. Box 4 (5- Folder 101 1970-1981 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Lectures and Notes on Ricardo, 1971-1975 Box 5 (5- Folder 1 Lectures and - Page 29- Lowe, Adolf; Papers
Other Course Materials)
"On the Theory of Value" (unpublished TS), 1971 Box 5 (5- Folder 2 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Untitled Lecture, 1973 Box 5 (5- Folder 3 Lectures and Scope and Contents Other Course (unpublished typescripts) and Notes (unpublished Materials) manuscripts).
Untitled Lecture on Marx (unpublished TS), ca. 1975 Box 5 (5- Folder 4 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
Untitled Lecture on Marx (unpublished TS), and Flier, ca. 1975 Box 5 (5- Folder 5 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
"'Generalization' of Political Economics" (unpublished TS), ca. Box 5 (5- Folder 6 1975 Lectures and Other Course Materials)
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Research Materials, 1940-1996 Physical Description: 0.45 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This series consists of published and unpublished articles, clippings, and other documents that Lowe gathered in connection with his academic research. Many of these materials consist of critical analyses of his work and were presented to him by colleagues. Others were written by faculty members at the New School for Social Research, among them Robert Heilbroner, Hans Jonas, Anwar Shaikh, and Hans Staudinger. Also included is a copy of Claus- Dieter Krohn's intellectual biography of Lowe, Der Philosophische Ökonom. Krohn, who was in possession of the materials in this collection at the time of Lowe's death, may have added the book to the collection.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Title/Description Instances Amendola, "The Path to a Dynamic Analysis of the 'Traverse': A. Box 5 (6- Folder 7 Lowe and J.R. Hicks" (unpublished TS), ca. 1980 Research Materials)
Burnshaw, "Mirages: Travel Notes in the Promised Land", ca. 1975
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Box 5 (6- Folder 8 Research Materials)
Chase, "Vision, Theory Debate and the Development of Box 5 (6- Folder 9 Mainstream Economics" (published), 1981 Research Materials)
Feldman, "Wirtschafts- und socialpolitische Probleme der Box 5 (6- Folder 10 Deutschen Demobilmachtung 1918/19" (published), 1974 Research Materials)
Haass, "Adolph Lowes Vison des Box 5 (6- Folder 11 Wohlfahrtsstaates..." (published[?]), 1990 Research Materials)
Hacking, "Winner Take Less" (published), 1984 Box 5 (6- Folder 12 Research Materials)
Hagemann and Jeck, "Lowe and the Marx-Feldman-Dobb Box 5 (6- Folder 13 Model..." (published), 1984 Research Materials)
Hagemann and Kurz, "Balancing Freedom and Order: on Adolph Box 5 (6- Folder 14 Lowe's Political Economics" (unpublished TS), ca. 1990 Research Materials)
Harvey, "Professor Lowe and His Critique of Marx" (unpublished Box 5 (6- Folder 15 TS), ca. 1975 Research Materials)
Heilbroner, "Modern Economics as a Chapter in the History of Box 5 (6- Folder 16 Economic Thought" (unpublished TS), ca. 1970 Research Materials)
Jaszi, "Notes on Adolph Lowe: Toward a Science of Political Box 5 (6- Folder 17 Economics", 1968 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Life, Death, and the Body in the Theory of Box 5 (6- Folder 18 Being" (published), 1965 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Box 5 (6- Folder 19 Human Subjects (unpublished TS) and "Contemporary Problems Research in Science and Ethics" (published), ca. 1970 Materials)
Jonas, H., "Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Box 5 (6- Folder 20 Human Subjects" (published), 1969 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Against the Stream" (unpublished TS), 1970 Box 5 (6- Folder 21 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Das Problem des Lebens und des Liebes in der Lehre von Sein" (published), ca. 1970
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Box 5 (6- Folder 22 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Philosophical Aspects of Technology" (unpublished Box 5 (6- Folder 23 TS), ca. 1975 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "On the Power or Impotence of Box 5 (6- Folder 24 Subjectivity" (published), 1976 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Impotence or Power of Subjectivity" Box 5 (6- Folder 25 Postscript" (unpublished TS), 1977 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "The Concept of Responsibility: An Box 5 (6- Folder 26 Inquiry..." (published), 1977 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Straddling the Boundaries of Theory and Practice: Box 5 (6- Folder 27 Recombinant DNA Research..." (published), 1978 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Reflections on Technology, Progress, and Box 5 (6- Folder 28 Utopia" (published), 1981 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Der Gottesbegriff nach Auschwitz" (unpublished TS), Box 5 (6- Folder 29 ca. 1985 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Werkzeug, Bild, und Grab vom Transanimalischen in Box 5 (6- Folder 30 Menschen" (unpublished TS), 1985 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Geist, Natur, und Schöpfung" (unpublished TS), ca. Box 5 (6- Folder 31 1985 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "Rechte, Recht, und Ethik" (unpublished TS), 1986 Box 5 (6- Folder 32 Research Materials)
Jonas, H., "The Burden and Blessing of Mortality" (unpublished Box 5 (6- Folder 33 TS), 1991 Research Materials)
Jonas, L. "Mein Vater Siegfried Weiner (1886-1963)" (published), Box 5 (6- Folder 34 1989 Research Materials)
Krohn, Der Philosophische Ökonom (published), 1996 Box 5 (6- Folder 35 Research Materials)
Lissner, "Adolph Lowe's Methodological Alternative for Economic Research and Policy" (published), 1981
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Box 5 (6- Folder 36 Research Materials)
Lüdke, "Phönix, Asche und Scheiterhaufen der zerfall der Box 5 (6- Folder 37 Frankfurter Schule" (published), 1977 Research Materials)
Magnan de Bornier, "Le Modèle à Trois Secteurs de Box 5 (6- Folder 38 Lowe" (published), 1980 Research Materials)
Neisser, "Equilibrium Dynamics, Behavior Dynamics, Stability of Box 5 (6- Folder 39 Movement" (published), 1961 Research Materials)
Schwartzmann, "Competition and Efficiency" (unpublished TS), Box 5 (6- Folder 40 1972 Research Materials)
Shaikh, "Relative Prices and Inter-Industrial Box 5 (6- Folder 41 Relations" (unpublished TS), 1976 Research Materials)
Simon, "Invention and Cost Reduction in Technological Box 5 (6- Folder 42 Change" (unpublished TS), ca. 1970 Research Materials)
Staudinger, Untitled Essay (unpublished TS), 1978 Box 5 (6- Folder 43 Research Materials)
Vickers, "Purpose and Force; The Bases of Order" (published), Box 5 (6- Folder 44 1940 Research Materials)
Vickers, "Incomes and Earnings --A Steady State?" (published), Box 5 (6- Folder 45 ca. 1960 Research Materials)
Vickers, "The Management of Conflict" (published), 1972 Box 5 (6- Folder 46 Research Materials)
Vickers, "Towards a More Stable State" (published), 1972 Box 5 (6- Folder 47 Research Materials)
Vickers, Copies of Vickers-Simon Correspondence (unpublished Box 5 (6- Folder 48 TS), 1973 Research Materials)
Vickers, "Whither the Mixed Economy?" (published), 1973 Box 5 (6- Folder 49 Research Materials)
Vickers, "Some Implications of Systems Thinking" (unpublished TS), 1978
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Box 5 (6- Folder 50 Research Materials)
Vickers, "The Poverty of Problem-Solving" (unpublished TS), Box 5 (6- Folder 51 1980 Research Materials)
Vickers, "Autonomous Yet Responsible?" (unpublished TS), Box 5 (6- Folder 52 Undated Research Materials)
Vickers, "The Weakness of Western Culture" (unpublished TS), Box 5 (6- Folder 53 Undated Research Materials)
Wade, "E.F. Schumacher, Cutting Technology Down to Box 5 (6- Folder 54 Size" (published), 1975 Research Materials)
Unidentified author, "Das Materialismus: Seine Geschichte und Box 5 (6- Folder 55 Substanz" (unpublished TS), ca. 1975 Research Materials)
Unidentified author, Chapters of a Dissertation on Marx Box 5 (6- Folder 56 (unpublished TS), 1976 Research Materials)
Unidentified author, "Parallelism and Complementarity: Spinoza's Box 5 (6- Folder 57 Solution ..." (unpublished TS), Undated Research Materials)
Unidentified author, Untitled Fragment (unpublished TS), Box 5 (6- Folder 58 Undated Research Materials)
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Miscellaneous Professional Documents, 1918-1989 Physical Description: 0.40 cubic ft. Scope and Contents
This series consists of materials that document Lowe's professional activities. Included are minutes of several academic conferences in which he took part, minutes of the New School's Study Group on Germany (1943), clippings and correspondence concerning his receipt of various awards and honors, contracts with publishers, reviews of and advertisements for his books, assorted publications of the New School for Social Research, and a 1988 interview published in Die Zeit, a leading German newspaper.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Title/Description Instances Ministry of War Documents (Copies made by Gerald Feldman), Box 5 (7- Folder 59 1918-1919 Miscellaneous - Page 34- Lowe, Adolf; Papers
Professional Documents)
Conference Minutes, Abteilung für Weltwirtschaftskunde und Box 5 (7- Folder 60 internationale Konjuncturforschung (unpublished TS), 1926 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
"Abschiedsworte des Dekans an den scheidenden Kollegen Box 5 (7- Folder 61 Löwe..." (unpublished TS), 1931 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Reviews, etc., for Economics and Sociology, 1935-1936 Box 5 (7- Folder 62 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Minutes, New School Study Group on Germany, 1942-1943 Box 5 (7- Folder 63 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
New School for Social Research Publications and Clippings, Box 5 (7- Folder 64 1959-1987 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Publishing Contracts, 1963-1989 Box 5 (7- Folder 65 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Reviews, Announcements, Etc., for On Economic Knowledge, Box 5 (7- Folder 66 1965-1970 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Review of Heilbroner, Economic Means and Social Ends, ca. 1970 Box 5 (7- Folder 67 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Adolph Lowe Institute for Economic Research, 1978-1995 Box 5 (7- Folder 68 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Veblen-Commons Award, 1979-1980 Box 5 (7- Folder 69 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Fiftieth Anniversary of University in Exile; Grosse Box 5 (7- Folder 70 Bundesverdienstkreuz, 1984 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
New School Observer, 1984-1989 Box 5 (7- Folder 71 Miscellaneous - Page 35- Lowe, Adolf; Papers
Professional Documents)
Die Zeit Interview, 1988 Box 5 (7- Folder 72 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
Reviews, etc., for Has Freedom a Future?, 1989 Box 5 (7- Folder 73 Miscellaneous Professional Documents)
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