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Chester Arthur Phillips

1882–1976

A pioneering scholar of banking and finance, this early twentieth-century economist helped shape how bank credit was taught for decades. He also played a major role in building business education at the University of Iowa.

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Readings in Money and Banking

Readings in Money and Banking

by Chester Arthur Phillips

About the author

Born in 1882, Chester Arthur Phillips was an American economist and writer whose work focused on money, banking, and credit. His books include Readings in Money and Banking and Bank Credit: A Study of the Principles and Factors Underlying Advances Made by Banks to Borrowers, a work described by the University of Iowa as pioneering in bank credit theory.

Early in his career, he taught at Dartmouth College and in the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance. Readings in Money and Banking identifies him as an assistant professor there, and Bank Credit notes that the book grew out of his Yale doctoral work.

Phillips went on to become the first dean of the University of Iowa College of Commerce, serving from 1921 to 1950. He also served as interim president of the university in 1940 and later had Phillips Hall dedicated in his honor in 1966. He died in 1976, remembered both as a teacher and as an important voice in banking and finance education.