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The American economist, sociologist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for the same anti-war activism for which she was not reappointed as a full professor of economics and sociology at Wellesley College in 1918. She was also notable as a defender of the economic, social and cultural benefits of ethnically diverse immigration, at a time when many economists wished to restrict immigration.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Online edition, 2010. Edited by Palgrave Macmillan
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Randall, M.M. 1964. Improper Bostonian: Emily Greene Balch, Nobel peace laureate, 1946. New York: Twayne Publishers.
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Dimand, R.W. (2010). Balch, Emily Greene (1867–1961). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_2912-1
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