Editing Fritz Machlup (section)

{{Short description|Austrian economist (1902–1983)}}
{{Infobox economist
| name             = Fritz Machlup
| school_tradition = [[Austrian School]]
| image            =
| caption          =
| birth_name       = Friedrich Eduard Machlup
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1902|12|15|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Wiener-Neustadt]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1983|1|30|1902|12|15|mf=y}}
| death_place      = [[Princeton, New Jersey]], U.S.
| education=[[University of Vienna]]<br><small>([[Dr. rer. pol]], 1923)</small>
| institution      = [[New York University]] <br>(1971–83)<br />[[Princeton University]] <br>(1960–71)<br>[[Johns Hopkins University]]<br> (1947–59)<br>[[University at Buffalo]]<br> (1935–47)
| field            =
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Ludwig von Mises]]
| influences       = [[Friedrich von Wieser]]<br>[[Ludwig von Mises]]<br>[[Friedrich Hayek]]
| contributions    = [[Information society]]
| signature        = Fritz_Machlup_signature.gif
}}

'''Fritz Machlup''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɑː|k|l|ʌ|p}};<ref>{{YouTube|id=42wOuPBCFcI|Fritz Machlup on whether everybody should go to college|time=4m57s}}</ref> {{IPA|de|ˈmaxluːp|lang}}; born '''Friedrich Eduard Machlup'''; December 15, 1902 – January 30, 1983) was an Austrian-American [[economist]] known for his work in [[information economics]].<ref>{{cite book |author= Chipman, J.S. |chapter= Machlup, Fritz (1902–1983) |title= The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics |editor1=Durlauf, S.N. |editor2= Blume, L.E. |year= 2008 |doi= 10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_925-2 |place= London |publisher= Macmillan Palgrave |pages= 1–3|isbn= 978-1-349-95121-5 }}</ref> He was President of the [[International Economic Association]] from 1971 to 1974.<ref name=":2" /> He was one of the first economists to examine [[knowledge]] as an economic resource,<ref>* {{cite journal |author= May, Clifford D. |author-link = Clifford May |title= Fritz Machlup, 80, An Economist, Dies |journal= The New York Times |date= 31 January 1983 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/31/obituaries/fritz-machlup-80-an-economist-dies.html |accessdate= 8 September 2023}}</ref> and is credited with popularising the concept of the [[information society]].<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last1=Crawford |first1=S |title=The origin and development of a concept: the information society. |journal=Bulletin of the Medical Library Association |date=October 1983 |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=380–385 |pmid=6652297 |pmc=227258 }}</ref>