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Joseph M. Jones
Joseph Marion Jones (1908-1990) was an economist and former Government official.
Born on October 29, 1908 in Lockhart, Texas, Jones received a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and master’s...показать большеJoseph Marion Jones (1908-1990) was an economist and former Government official.
Born on October 29, 1908 in Lockhart, Texas, Jones received a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an associate editor of Fortune magazine from 1943-1946. He was an economist with the United States Tariff Commission and served as a special assistant in foreign aid programs at the U.S. State Department after World War II. As Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, he was responsible for drafting Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson’s speech before the Delta Council on May 8, 1947.
After leaving the State Department in 1953, Dr. Jones was a research fellow at Yale University, a special assistant to Gov. W. Averell Harriman of New York from 1955-1959, and a consultant to the Lasker Foundation.
He was the author of five books, including The Fifteen Weeks, an account of the formation of the Marshall Plan that played a central role in the economic recovery of Western Europe, and Tariff Retaliation, which dealt with repercussions in world trade from the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930.
He retired to Florida in 1967 and lectured at the University of Miami until 1978, when he returned to the Washington area.
Dr. Jones died in Arlington, Virginia on August 9, 1990, aged 81.показать меньше