Harry David Gideonse (May 17, 1901 – March 12, 1985)[1][2] was a Dutch-born American economist.
[3] His family emigrated to the United States in 1904, settling in Rochester, New York, where Gidonese attended elementary school.
[2][8] Gideonse wrote Transfert des réparations et le plan Dawes (1928), The International Bank, The Higher Learning in a Democracy, The Economic Policy of the United States, Introductory General Course in the Study of Contemporary Society (1939), American Policy in Indonesia (1949), The economic foreign policy of the United States (1953), On the Educational Statesmanship of a Free Society (1959), Against the Running Tide (1967), and The Year 2000: The Future Planners and Education (1969), and co-wrote a number of other books.
[8][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] He served on the executive committee of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
[8] He was Chairman of the Board for a number of years of Freedom House and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.