FOLIO I · DENKER
Born on 18 April 1901 in Vienna.
Employment at the Institute for Business Cycle Research in 1927/28.
After the Institute for Business Cycle Research, Schiff worked as a newspaper editor and regularly attended the Mises private seminar.
In his principal work, Schiff demonstrated that monetary depreciation undermines firms' calculation assumptions and thus inevitably leads to malinvestment.[2]
Because of his Jewish descent, Schiff fled to the United States in 1938, where he continued to work as an economist.
Died on 9 January 1992 in the United States.
After his appointment at the Institute for Business Cycle Research, Schiff worked as a newspaper editor and regularly attended the Mises-Privatseminar in Vienna.[1]
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