# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-calvert-simons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:51:08.998Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-calvert-simons"
name: "Henry Calvert Simons"
slug: "henry-calvert-simons"
description: "Henry Calvert Simons was an American economist at the University of Chicago. A protégé of Frank Knight, his antitrust and monetarist models influenced the Chicago school of economics. He was a founding author of the Chicago plan for monetary reform that found broad support in the years following the 1930s Depression, which would have abolished the fractional-reserve banking system, which Simons viewed to be inherently unstable. This would have prevented unsecured bank credit from circulating as a \"money substitute\" in the financial system, and it would be replaced with money created by the government or central bank that would not be subject to bank runs."
tagline: "American economist (1899–1946)"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1899-10-09"
deathDate: "1946-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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