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 ).