Randall Hinshaw; Expert in Monetary Theory

Randall Hinshaw, 82, internationally recognized Claremont expert on economics. Associated with Claremont Graduate University for nearly four decades, Hinshaw specialized in monetary theory. He began his career with the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., worked with the post-World War II Marshall Plan in Paris, was an economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce and a special advisor to NATO on trade and international monetary policy. Before joining the Claremont faculty in 1960, Hinshaw taught at Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins universities, Amherst and Oberlin colleges, USC and UCLA. In 1967, Hinshaw founded the Claremont-Bologna Monetary Conference Series, edited each book created from the series. Hinshaw wrote such books as “The European Community and American Trade” and edited many more. Born in La Grange, Ill., he grew up in Pasadena and earned his degrees from Occidental College and Princeton University.