Alvin S. Johnson
Johnsonc. 1937
Born	(1874-12-18)December 18, 1874 Homer, Nebraska, U.S.
Died	June 7, 1971(1971-06-07) (aged 96) Upper Nyack, New York, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Nebraska Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Edwin R. A. Seligman John Bates Clark
Academic work
Institutions	Cornell University
Doctoral students	Frank H. Knight

Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an Americaneconomist and a co-founder and first director ofThe New School.

Alvin Johnson was born nearHomer, Nebraska. He was educated at theUniversity of Nebraska andColumbia (Ph.D., 1902). Afterwards, he was employed in various positions atColumbia, theUniversity of Nebraska, theUniversity of Texas, theUniversity of Chicago,Stanford, and atCornell after 1913.

He was assistant editor of thePolitical Science Quarterly in 1902–06, and editor from 1917 of theNew Republic inNew York City.

He was a co-founder ofThe New School in New York in 1918, becoming its director in 1922. Johnson helped to save numerous central European scholars from persecution by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, then brought them to a specially-created division of the New School which became known as the "University in Exile". There, among others, he worked with the antifascist intellectualMax Ascoli.^[1] He was also an editor of the massiveEncyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. He was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1942.^[2]

He officially retired in December 1945, and died in 1971 inUpper Nyack, New York.

• Rent in Modern Economic Theory: An Essay in Distribution, 1903.
• Introduction to Economics, 1909.
• "Review of Hobson's Industrial System", 1911, AER.
• "Review of Hobson's Science of Wealth", 1912, AER.
• "Review of Böhm-Bawerk's Positive Theory of Capital", 1914, AER.
• "Review of Adler's Kapitalzins und Preisbewegung", 1914, AER.
• War and the Interests of Labor, 1914.
• Commerce and War, 1914.
• The Professor and the Petticoat, 1914 (novel).
• "Review of Carver's Essays in Social Justice and Hollander's Abolition of Poverty", 1916, AER
• John Stuyvesant, Ancestor, 1919.
• Editor, Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, 1930.
• "The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism", 1939, Survey Graphic
• The Clock of History, 1946.
• Socialism in Western Europe, 1948.
• Pioneer's Progress: An autobiography, 1952.
• Essays in Social Economics, 1954.
• New World for Old: A Family Migration, 1965
• Introduction to Economics, 1971.^[3]

He was inducted into theNebraska Hall of Fame in 2012.

• Peter M. Rutkoff, William B. Scott:New School: a History of the New School for Social Research. New York: Free Press 1986.
• Claus-Dieter Krohn [de]:Wissenschaft im Exil. Deutsche Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler in den USA und die New School for Social Research, Frankfurt a.M. Campus 1987.
• Autobiography,Pioneer's Progress, published in 1952

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• Alvin Saunders Johnson atFind a Grave
• www.newschool.edu
• Univ of Albany Archives
• Alvin Saunders Johnson papers (MS 615). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.[2]
• GERALD J. STEINACHER and BRIAN BARMETTLER (2019). "The University in Exile and the Garden of Eden: Alvin Johnson and His Rescue Efforts for European Jews and Intellectuals".Unlikely Heroes: The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 139–166.doi:10.2307/j.ctvd58t29.9.ISBN 978-1-4962-0892-7.JSTOR j.ctvd58t29.9.S2CID 162519971.

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