Young, Allyn Abbott 1875-1929
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1876 · died 1929
Allyn Abbott Young was an American economist. Over his career, he served as president of the American Statistical Association in 1917 and the American Economic Association in 1925, making him one of the few individuals to lead both organizations. In 1929, Young was president of Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He died in London at the age of 52 from pneumonia during an influenza epidemic.
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Correspondence
lectures for Harvard courses, papers, pre-Harvard courses and reports in Allyn A. Young Papers, Pusey Library, Harvard University, 8 boxes, 3 folders.
Personal File, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Papers, largely letters of condolence, Allyn A. Young Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Teachout Memorial Library, Hiram College, Hiram OH 44234.
Archives of the American Commission to Negotiate the Peace, National Archives.
Archives of The Inquiry, National Archives
Correspondents
Frank Knight, 1920-8, Knight Papers, Regenstein Library, University of Chicago.
Walter F. Wilcox, Wilcox Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
David Starr Jordan, 1906-25, Jordan Papers, Stanford University Archives, Stanford University Library.
Printed Material
C.P. Blitch, Allyn Young: The Peripatetic Economist (London, 1995).
P.G. Mehrling & R.J. Sandilands (eds.), Money and Growth: Selected Papers of Allyn Abbott Young, (London and New York, 1999), includes a comprehenive bibliography.
New Palgrave, IV, 937-40.
Portrait: Oil, gift of C.P. Blitch to Department of Economics, Harvard University.