ARTHUR OLAUS DAHLBERG PAPERS
Scope and Content Note
Arthur Olaus Dahlberg, inventor, economist and author of several books on
economic theory, was born in Escanaba, Michigan in 1898. He graduated with a
degree in engineering from the University of Michigan in 1920, received a master's
degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1927 and completed his
formal education in 1931 with a Ph.D. in sociology from Wisconsin.
Dahlberg was an instructor of machine design at Wisconsin in 1929 when he
invented a new kind of fountain pen. The design incorporated a unique filling
mechanism which appealed to the Parker Pen Company. The company purchased
Dahlberg's patent rights in 1931 and marketed the pen successfully for several years.
The first of Dahlberg's seven books on economics, Jobs, Machines and
Capitalism, appeared in 1932. Although Dahlberg went to work for the National
Recovery Administration in 1933, the collection contains very little concerning his
work with the agency. (Among his more interesting ideas was a proposal for a thirty
hour week.)
In 1944 Dahlberg became the president of the U.S. Economics Corporation,
a consulting firm that provided advice and forecasting services to several major
corporations. A recurring theme of his writings is the role of money in the nation's
economic health. Dalberg retired from U.S. Economics in 1971 but continued writing
until his death in 1981.
Dalberg's papers (1927-81, 5.5 linear feet) contain correspondence, memoranda,
book drafts, drawings and ideas for inventions, and miscellaneous printed matter.
Correspondence File
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Correspondence
1921-1924
1925-1926
1927
1928-1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
February - September
October - December
1934
January - February
March - July
1935-1945
2
1951-1967
1968-1971
1973-1989 and undated
Name and Subject File
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2
Amway Corporation, 1971-1972
Bank Deposits, Tax on, 1939
Biographical Information
Clippings
1923-1925
1926-1927
1928-1930
1933-1967 and undated
College Class Notes (1)
3
College Class Notes (2)
College Class Notes (3)
Cosmos Club, 1964 and undated
Dahlberg, Agnes
Drawings and Charts
Econometrics Studies, 1943-1944
Eight Hour Day Pamphlet, 1899
Employment and Prosperity Proposals, 1940
Industrial Recovery Act, 1933
Jennings, John
Biographical Information
Clippings
Correspondence
1965-1970
1970-1971
4
Miscellaneous Source Material
Research Reports
Singer Corporation
Memorandum
Miscellaneous
Newsletters
Writings and Speeches, 1965-1970
Journals
1982-1983
1985-1986
1988
Morgan, Griscom, 1963-1985 and undated
Patents
Clippings, 1943
Drawings, Miscellaneous
Gas Nozzle Invention
Parker Pen
1925-1928
5
1931-1934 and undated
Pen Companies, 1928-1929
Pens Patented by Dahlberg, 1921-1943
Pens Patented by Others
Pen Sketches
Shoe Patent, 1938
Railroad Drawings
Receipts, 1921-1934 and undated
Shilling, A. Gary, 1975-1986
Stock Market Prices
Temporary National Economic Committee, 1940 and undated
United States Economics Corps
1965-1974
1976-1987 and undated
Writings and Speeches by Dahlberg
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1925
Degeneracy as Caused by Social Conditions"
1927
"Utopia Through Capitalism"
Correspondence
1927, September
"A New Graphical Method of Depicting Historical Events"
1929, January 23
"Religion, Capitalism, and Nationalism"
1932
"Jobs, Machines, and Capitalism"
Final Copy
Reviews
1934, August 23
"Is Collective Bargaining Inherently Futile?"
1935, December 1
"Inherent Advantages, Complications, and Difficulties"
1938
"Cultural Implications of Price Fixing"
7
1938
"When Capital Goes on Strike"
Draft
Final Copy
Letters Concerning, 1938-1940
8
Reviews
1940
Concentration of Economic Power Report
1956
"How U.S. Output is Measured"
1956
"National Income Visualized"
Final Copy
1956
"National Income Visualized"
Preface Copy
1962
"Money in Motion"
Draft and Miscellaneous
1962
"Money in Motion"
9
Final Copy
Reviews and Correspondence
1962
"An Overlooked Cancer in the Free Market System"
1962
"Reduce the Price of Gold and Make Money Move"
1969
"Will Congress Have the Courage to Stop Inflation?"
1969, November
"Why the Fight Against Inflation Will Fail"
1970
"The Bretton Woods Monetary System"
1970, October
"Why You Can Count on More Inflation"
1971, January 15
Report Written for Senator Bellmon for his meeting
with President Nixon
1972, November 12
"The Cost of Being a Citizen"
1973
"The Cost of Citizenship is Also Part of the Cost of Living"
1974
"Inflation Can be Quickly Checked"
1974
"How to Save Free Enterprise
Drafts
Final Copy
10
Presentation
1974
"How to Save Free Enterprise
Reviews and Correspondence
1978, March 15
"The Neutron Bomb-A Christian Weapon?"
1983
"Handling Deficits With Borrowing or New Taxes"
1983
"How to Reduce Interest Rates and Poverty"
Final Copy
Reviews and Correspondence
1984, October 20
"Why Our Dollar and Capital Markets Have Become so Confused"
1984, October 20
"M1, M2, M3 and Real Money Relationships"
1984, October 24
"The Three Faces of Money"
1985, July 25
"Inflationary Practices and Measures of Inflation"
1987
"The Crisis Tax"
1987, June 24
"Existing Arrangements Ensure Higher Interest Rates"
1988
"Dahlberg’s Dream"
1989
"A Recession Stopper and Boom Builder"
Undated
"Bankers Reaction"
"The Dahlberg Plan"
"How Savers Receiving Interest May React"
"How the Federal Reserve Controls Credit by
Regulating the Reserves of Member Banks"
"Khrushchev’s Cuban Conquest"
"My Aunt Anna Had Auburn Hair"
"The Relation of Money and Credit"
"Review of the Triffin Plan"
"Sanctuary Money Facilitates Deficits in the
International Balance of Payments"
"Scuttling Our Hemisphere Security"
"A Second ‘Bay of Pigs’"
Writings:
Drafts, Miscellaneous
11
Source Material (1)
Source Material (2)
Source Material (3)
Source Material (4)
Source Material, Clippings
12
Oversize Material, Miscellaneous