Name Bela Gold Role Businessman | Died April 14, 2012 | |
Books Productivity, Technology, and Capital: Economic Analysis, Managerial Strategies, and Government Policies Education Columbia University, New York University | ||
Bela Gold, also Bill Gold, (30 January 1915 – 14 April 2012), was a Hungarian-born American businessman and professor.
Biography
Born in Kolozsvár (then Austria-Hungary, now Romania: Cluj-Napoca), he was the son of Esther (b. 1891) and Leo Gold (b. 1890), and had a brother, William Gold (born 1921). His father was a dry goods salesman, and the family had emigrated to the U.S. in 1920. He married Sonia Steinman Gold in 1938.
In the early 40s, he began work at the Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization, and Sonya worked in government as well, for a time for Harry Dexter White.
The Golds were spied upon by J Edgar Hoover's FBI for a time in the 1940s. The Golds came to testify at the House Unamerican Activities Committee because of the accusations of Elizabeth Bentley. The Golds denied working with the Soviets and denied they were members of the communist party. Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev wrote a book published in 2009 claiming that the Golds were recruited to give information to Soviet agents. Some of their work has been debated by other historians.
After the war, Bill Gold went to the University of Pittsburgh and became a professor. He later became a research director at Case Western Reserve University, and eventually a professor at Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University). He also worked on the National Research Council and wrote several books.