Josef Steindl. Born 1912 in Vienna, Austria, 
graduated there in economics ( doctorate 1935 ) 
worked at the fsterreichisch.es Institut fUr 
Konjunkturforschimp 1935 to 1938. After the occupation 
of Austria in 1938 a grant of a research lecturership 
by Balliol College, Oxford, made it possible for him 
to emigrate to England and continue his economic studies. 
He was a research worker from 1940 to 1949 in the 
Oxford Institute of Statistics where he met Mihal Kalecki 
who had a deep and lasting influence on him. In 195o 
he returned to Austria and took up a job in the 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research to which he still 
remains attacfied a af odr 1 lixs^^etirement in 19??. He obtained 
the title of honorary professor from the university of 
Vienna in 1570. His main works are Maturity and 
Stagnation in American Capitalism ( Oxford 1952 ) and 
Random Processes anil the Growth of Firms (London 1965 ).