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About the Author<br />

ELGIN GROSECLOSE founded (1960) and currently serves as executive<br />

directorofthe Institute for Monetary Reasearch, Inc., and since 1944<br />

has been head of Groseclose, Williams, and Broderick, financial and<br />

investment consultants. With degrees from the University of Oklahoma<br />

(AB) and American University (MA, PhD), he is one of<strong>America's</strong> leading<br />

monetary economists.<br />

Dr. Groseclose was the first financial editor of Fortune, has taught<br />

money and banking at the City College of New York, and has served the<br />

federal government in a number ofprofessional and consultative capacities.<br />

During World War II he served as treasurer-general of Iran by<br />

appointment ofthe Iranian parliament, charged with the principal task of<br />

curbing wartime inflation. He successfully carried out this mandate by<br />

returning gold to the marketplace-a measure subsequently adopted<br />

with great success throughout the Middle East War Theatre.<br />

Dr. Groseclose's books include <strong>Money</strong> and Man (1976), the fourth<br />

revised and enlarged edition of <strong>Money</strong>: The Human Conflict (1934); Introduction<br />

to Iran (1947); Fifty Years of Managed <strong>Money</strong> (1966), of which this<br />

work is a revised and updated edition; and seven novels, among which<br />

are Ararat (1939; third edition, 1977), winner of a National Book Award<br />

and a Foundation for Literature Award; The Kiowa (1978), a Gold Medallion<br />

winner and Christian Herald Book Shelf selection; and Olympia, a<br />

story of fourth century Byzantium (1980).<br />

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