Josef ^teindl birn 1912 in Vienna, studied there and received 
his doct r's degree in 1935> After that he worked at the 
Austrian Institut fttr K'n junk turf>rschung up to the German 
occupation f Austria when he emigrated, A grant of a 
research lecturership by Balllol ^olle ;e, Oxford, made it possible 
for him to c >rae to %igland where he subsequent!#- worked 
at the Oxford Institute of Statistics. At the beginning of 1950 
he returned to Austria to work at the Austrian Institute of 
Economic ^esearc until his retirement in 1970* He became a 
honorary professor of the university of Vie na i197^» 
In 1974^75 he was a visiting professor in Stanford, California. 
His publications include Maturity and Stagnation in American 
Capitalism, Oxford 1952, and Random Irocesse and the Growth 
of Firms, London 19&5*