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#5001

Edward Gonner

1862 - 1922 (60 years)

Sir Edward Carter Kearsey Gonner KBE was an English economist, Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool. Early life Gonner was born on 5 March 1862 in Mayfair, London, to Peter Kersey Gonner, a silk mercer, and Elizabeth Carter. He attended Merchant Taylors' School in London, before matriculating at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1880, graduating B.A. in 1884.

#5002

Petr Maslov

1867 - 1946 (79 years)

Pyotr Pavlovich Maslov was a Russian Empire and Soviet economist and agriculturist. Biography Maslov attended at the Kharkov Veterinary Institute. He was in contact with the Marxist study circle of Nikolai Fedoseev, a contact which led to his arrest in 1889. He joined the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, and became a spokesperson on agrarian reform. He advocated the municipalisation of the land, in order to appeal to the peasantry by expropriating the land without compensation, and making it available to them cheaply, without giving them ownership. This was sim...

#5003

Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham

1894 - 1976 (82 years)

Benjamin Graham was a British-born American economist, professor and investor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security Analysis with David Dodd, and The Intelligent Investor . His investment philosophy stressed investor psychology, minimal debt, buy-and-hold investing, fundamental analysis, concentrated diversification, buying within the margin of safety, activist investing, and contrarian mindsets.

#5004

Hubert Phillips

Hubert Phillips

1891 - 1964 (73 years)

Hubert Phillips was a British economist, journalist, broadcaster, bridge player and organiser, composer of puzzles and quizzes, and the author of some 70 books. Life Education and early career Phillips was educated at Sexey's School, Bruton, and Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and Economics, taking a first class degree. He served in the British Army with the Essex Regiment throughout World War I.

#5005

Rufus Isaacs

1914 - 1981 (67 years)

Rufus Philip Isaacs was a game theorist especially prominent in the 1950s and 1960s with his work on differential games. Biography Isaacs was born on 11 June 1914 in New York City. He worked for the RAND Corporation from 1948 until winter 1954/1955. His investigation stemmed from classic pursuit–evasion type zero-sum dynamic two-player games such as the Princess and monster game. In 1942, he married Rose Bicov, and they had two daughters.

#5006

Robert Liefmann

Robert Liefmann

1874 - 1941 (67 years)

Robert Liefmann was a German economist. He was a professor at Freiburg University. Literary works Kartell, 1905Beteiligungs- und Finanzierungsgeselschaften, 1909"Geld und Gold", 1916Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre, 2 Vols., 1917-1919"Die Geldvermehrung im Weltkriege und die Beseitigung ihrer Folgen : eine Untersuchung zu den Problemen der Übergangswirtschaft",1918

#5007

Shirley Montag Almon

Shirley Montag Almon

1935 - 1975 (40 years)

Shirley Montag Almon was an American economist noted for the Almon Lag. Early life and education Almon was born on February 6, 1935, in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, the oldest of seven children of Harold and Dorothea Montag. She was educated at Goucher College, Baltimore, and then for her PhD at Harvard University . A core element of her PhD was published in Econometrica and introduced the now famous technique for estimating distributed lags.

#5008

Daniel Jack

1901 - 1984 (83 years)

Daniel Thomson Jack was a British political economist who was Professor of Economics at the University of Durham. Jack graduated from the University of Glasgow. He was appointed to the East Africa Royal Commission .

#5009

George William Daniels

1878 - 1937 (59 years)

George William Daniels was a British political economist and historian who was vice-president of the Chetham Society and President of the Manchester Statistical Society. Career Daniels was born in Manchester and educated at the Victoria University of Manchester where he gained his Master of Arts and Master of Commerce degrees and was later appointed Stanley Jeavons Professor of Political Economy. He worked with the economists John Jewkes and Harry Campion.

#5010

Jordi Brandts

#5011

Emanuel Herrmann

Emanuel Herrmann

1839 - 1902 (63 years)

Emanuel Alexander Herrmann was an Austrian national economist. He is considered the decisive last in an international line of inventors of the postal card. Life and work After graduating with a law doctorate from the University of Vienna, Emanuel Herrmann, the son of the Bezirkshauptmann of Klagenfurt, entered the civil service in the Austrian ministry of commerce and qualified for a university career as a "Privatdozent" in the field of national economics. He was also a professor at the renowned Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and from 1882 for twenty years professor of nat...

#5012

Ilyas Burney

1890 - 1959 (69 years)

Professor Muhammad Ilyas Burney was the first head of Department of Economics at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He published about 40 books in Urdu, Persian, Arabic and English. He wrote the first book about Economics in Urdu, for which Sir Muhammad Iqbal complimented him in 1917. His other books in economics included Ilm ul Maaeshat , Muqaddima e Maashiyat and Indian Economics.

#5013

James Anderson of Hermiston

James Anderson of Hermiston

1739 - 1808 (69 years)

James Anderson FRSE FSAScot was a Scottish agriculturist, journalist and economist. A member of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society, Anderson was a prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He invented the Scotch plough. As a writer he adopted the nom de plume of Agricola.

#5014

Pyotr Lyashchenko

1876 - 1955 (79 years)

Pyotr Ivanovich Lyashchenko was a Russian and Soviet economist and a specialist in the field of economy, agriculture and history of the national economy of Russia and the Soviet Union. Professor Lyashchenko was the rector of Tomsk Imperial University in 1916.

#5015

James L. Hayes

1915 - 1989 (74 years)

James L. Hayes was an American educator, dean of the School of Business Administration at Duquesne University, and former president of the American Management Association. Biography Born in 1915, Hayes obtained his A.B. degree from St. Bernard's College in Rochester, New York, now St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry, and his M.A. in economics from St. Bonaventure University in 1937.

#5016

Henry Walcott Farnam

1853 - 1933 (80 years)

Henry Walcott Farnam was an American economist. Background The son of railroad executive Henry Farnam, he attended Yale University graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1874, and then studied towards a M.A. in Roman law and economics in 1876. Like many American economists of the late 19th century, Farnam then went to Germany to study under the leading figures of the German historical school. Farnam earned a PhD from the University of Strasbourg in 1878.

#5017

David McCord Wright

1909 - 1968 (59 years)

David McCord Wright was an American economist and educator at the University of Georgia. He was a graduate of Harvard University. Personal Wright was born in Savannah, Georgia. He married Caroline Noble Jones and had three children: Anna, Antony and Peter.

#5018

Balthasar H. Meyer

Balthasar H. Meyer

1866 - 1954 (88 years)

Balthasar Henry Meyer was an American government official and professor of economics and sociology. He served for 28 years as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Early life Meyer was born near Mequon, Wisconsin, the son of Henry and Louise Meyer. He attended Oshkosh State Normal School, receiving his bachelor's degree, and then took two degrees, including his doctorate in 1897, from the University of Wisconsin, after doing graduate work at the University of Berlin in 1894–95.

#5019

Karl Marlo

1810 - 1865 (55 years)

Karl Marlo, pseudonym of Karl Georg Winkelblech , was a German professor, scientist, chemist and state socialist. Life Marlo was born in Ensheim near Mainz. After finishing his studies in natural sciences and chemistry in Giessen, he became a private tutor in Marburg and, from 1839, a Professor of Chemistry at the Higher Trade School at Kassel, Hesse.

#5020

Frederick Albert Cleveland

1865 - 1946 (81 years)

Frederick Albert Cleveland was a United States economist. Biography He graduated from DePauw University in 1890. He studied for the bar, but gave up practice in 1896 and thereafter gave his entire attention to economics, pursuing special studies in economics first at the University of Chicago and then at the University of Pennsylvania .

#5021

F. W. Taussig

1859 - 1940 (81 years)

Frank William Taussig was an American economist who is credited with creating the foundations of modern trade theory. Early life He was born on December 28, 1859, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of William Taussig and Adele Wuerpel. His parents encouraged his literary and musical interests, and he played the violin at an early age. He was educated in the St. Louis public schools and at Smith Academy in that same city. He then went to Washington University in St. Louis but, after a year transferred to Harvard from where he graduated in 1879.

#5022

Hermann Roesler

1834 - 1894 (60 years)

Carl Friedrich Hermann Roesler was a German legal scholar, economist, and foreign advisor to the Meiji period Empire of Japan. Biography Early life Life in Japan In 1878, Roesler was invited by the government of Japan to serve as an advisor on international law to the Foreign Ministry. One compelling reason for his choice to move to Japan was due to his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1878, Roesler faced dismissal from service in Mecklenburg due to his religion. A timely meeting with Japanese ambassador to Germany, Aoki Shūzō introduced Roesler to a new opportunity, and Roesler became on...

#5023

Wilhelm Neurath

1840 - 1901 (61 years)

Wilhelm Neurath was an Austrian political economist of the late nineteenth century. He was professor of economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. He was the father of Otto Neurath.

#5024

Arthur Twining Hadley

Arthur Twining Hadley

1856 - 1930 (74 years)

Arthur Twining Hadley was an American economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921. Biography Hadley was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of James Hadley, Professor of Greek at Yale 1851–1872, and his wife, née Anne Loring Morris. He graduated from Yale College in 1876, where he was a member of DKE and Skull and Bones, and received prizes in English, classics and astronomy. He then studied political science at Yale , and at the University of Berlin under Adolph Wagner. He was a tutor at Yale in 1879–1883, instructor in political science in 1883–1886, professo...

#5025

Otmar Emminger

1911 - 1986 (75 years)

Otmar Emminger was a German economist who served as the president of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 1977 to 1979. Early life and education Emminger was born in Augsburg on 2 March 1911. In 1934, he received a PhD from the University of Munich.

#5026

Edward Webster Bemis

1860 - 1930 (70 years)

Edward Webster Bemis was an American economist and a public utility expert. He was a proponent of municipal ownership. Biography He graduated from Amherst College in 1880, and received a degree of PhD in 1885 at Johns Hopkins University after over three years' advanced work in economics and history. In 1887 he suggested the use of literacy test as a device to restrict the total number of immigrants coming into the United States. He was a pioneer lecturer in the university extension system, 1887–88; professor of economics and history, Vanderbilt University, 1889–1892; and associate professor of economics, University of Chicago, 1892-1895.

#5027

Nikola Stoyanov

Nikola Stoyanov

1874 - 1967 (93 years)

Nikola Stoyanov Mitov was a Bulgarian scientist, economist and financier. He was in charge of the Bulgarian Government Debt Directorate for much of the interwar period and as such, he led the prolonged negotiations over the country's foreign debt. The agreements helped stabilise the country's national currency and contributed to the economic growth Bulgaria experienced prior to World War II. Between 1929 and 1944, Stoyanov was editor-in-chief of the authoritative journal of the Bulgarian Economic Society. He was also a prominent member of various organisations of Macedonian immigrants to Bul...

#5028

Fred Hirsch

1931 - 1978 (47 years)

Fred Hirsch was an Austrian-born British economist and professor of international studies at the University of Warwick. Biography He was born in Vienna. In 1934, after the Austrian Civil War, his family emigrated to Britain. Hirsch graduated with first class honours from the London School of Economics in 1952 before working as a financial journalist on The Banker and The Economist . He was a senior adviser to the International Monetary Fund, from 1966 to 1972 where he worked on international monetary problems.

#5029

Rifa'a at-Tahtawi

Rifa'a at-Tahtawi

1801 - 1873 (72 years)

Rifa'a Rafi' at-Tahtawi was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist, and intellectual of the Nahda . One of the first Egyptian travellers to France in the nineteenth century, Tahtawi published in 1834 a detailed account of his 5-year-long stay in France, Takhlīṣ al-ʾibrīz fī talkhīṣ Bārīz , and from then on became one of the first Egyptian scholars to write about Western culture in an attempt to bring about a reconciliation and an understanding between Islamic and Christian civilizations.

#5030

Oliver M. W. Sprague

1873 - 1953 (80 years)

Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague was an American economist and president of the American Economic Association in 1937. His research focused on fiscal policy and central banking. Early life and education Sprague was born to William Wallace , a businessman, and Miriam Sprague on April 22, 1873, in Somerville, Massachusetts. He attended St. Johnsbury Academy and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1894. He went on to further study at Harvard, receiving an AM in 1896 and PhD in political science in 1897.

#5031

Paul Lambert

1912 - 1977 (65 years)

Paul Lambert was a Belgian cooperator and professor of economics at the University of Liège. Lambert gained a Doctorate in Law from the University of Liège in 1935. When Belgium was invaded in 1940 by Nazi Germany Lambert was conscripted and subsequently spent five years as a prisoner of war, which he recounted in his 1946 book Hommes perdus à l’Est . He returned to academia after the war, later becoming Chair of Political Economy at the Law Faculty of the University of Liège.

#5032

Thomas Robert Malthus

#5033

Richard Charles Mills

1886 - 1952 (66 years)

Professor Richard Charles Mills was an Australian economist and academic. He was head of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sydney for 23 years, and a key member of several Australian government instrumentalities.

#5034

Helen Sumner Woodbury

1876 - 1933 (57 years)

Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury was an American economist, academic, historian and public official. Biography Woodbury was born Helen Laura Sumner on 12 March 1876 to the district attorney and later Colorado judge George True Sumner and Katherine Eudora Marsh in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Woodbury attended Wellesley College where she got her undergraduate degree in 1898 before going on to be one of the first women to earn a PhD in economics, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1908 with her thesis, "The Labor Movement in America, 1827–1837" Woodbury was influenced by her professors, including Katharine Coman and Emily Greene Balch in her undergraduate years as well as Richard T.

#5035

Thomas A. Finlay

1848 - 1940 (92 years)

Thomas Aloysius Finlay, S.J. was an Irish Catholic priest, economist, philosopher and editor. Early life He was born on 6 July 1848 near Lanesborough, the son of William Finlay, an engineer, and his wife Maria Magan; the politician Thomas Finlay, named after him, was his nephew. His father, who died in 1864, was from Fifeshire, a Protestant convert to Catholicism; his mother was a Catholic from County Cavan.

#5036

Maria Smith-Falkner

1878 - 1968 (90 years)

Maria Natanovna Smith-Falkner was a Soviet economist, statistician and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1939 onwards. She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, having joined the Bolsheviks in 1918.

#5037

Theresa McMahon

1878 - 1961 (83 years)

Theresa Schmid McMahon was an American economist, political scientist, author, and activist. She earned her PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin. She taught in the Department of Economics at the University of Washington for 26 years.

#5038

William J. Abernathy

1933 - 1983 (50 years)

William J. Abernathy was an American professor at the Harvard Business School. With his empirical studies of the automobile industry, Abernathy contributed to explaining the industrial decline of the US automobile industry and influenced management thinking to pay more attention to innovation and long-term strategic decision making.

#5039

Vladimir Jovanović

Vladimir Jovanović

1833 - 1922 (89 years)

Vladimir Jovanović was a Serbian political theorist, economist, politician, philosopher, political and literary writer and activist for the unification of all Serbian lands in the Balkans. Biography Jovanović was educated at the Universities of Vienna, Berlin in agricultural and economic sciences, and Belgrade, where he stayed at the home of his father's relatives, the brothers Dimitrije and Matija Matić. Abroad, he attended the lectures of Karl Heinrich Rau's son Ludwig at Hohenhaven Agricultural Academy and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher in Vienna. In Belgrade, the Matić house was much more than just a place to stay.

#5040

Jacobus Franciscus Haccoû

Jacobus Franciscus Haccoû

1903 - 1972 (69 years)

Jacobus Franciscus Haccoû was a Dutch economist, Professor of Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam and first director of SEO Economic Research, known for his work on the futures exchange of goods and the economic situation in Dutch East Indies.

#5041

Elli Saurio

1899 - 1966 (67 years)

Elli Saurio was a Finnish economist. She was the first professor of household economics in Europe, the first woman in Finland to hold a doctorate in economics, and the first female professor in the University of Helsinki Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry.

#5042

John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley

1882 - 1958 (76 years)

John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, was a Scottish civil servant and politician who is best known for his service in the War Cabinet during the Second World War, for which he was nicknamed the "Home Front Prime Minister". He served as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Anderson shelters are named after him.

#5043

Sydney Chapman

1871 - 1951 (80 years)

Sir Sydney John Chapman KCB CBE was an English economist and civil servant. He was Chief Economic Adviser to HM Government from 1927 to 1932. Early life and education Chapman was born in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, the son of a merchant. His elder brother was the chemist David Leonard Chapman. The family moved to Manchester and Chapman was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Owens College. He graduated BA in 1891 and worked as a schoolmaster at Sheffield Royal Grammar School from 1893 to 1895 before entering Trinity College, Cambridge in 1895, graduating with a double first in moral sciences in 1898.

#5044

Germán Bernácer

1883 - 1965 (82 years)

Germán Bernácer Tormo was an economist from Spain. See also Germán Bernácer Prize

#5045

Melvin G. deChazeau

1900 - 1985 (85 years)

Melvin G. de Chazeau was an American economist and the second Dean of Cornell's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management following Paul O'Leary's return to teaching. De Chazeau joined the university's College of Arts & Sciences Economics Department in 1948 and he retired from the Cornell Faculty in 1967. As a professor emeritus, de Chazeau taught at Cornell and Dartmouth College through AY 1969–1970.

#5046

Costin Murgescu

1919 - 1989 (70 years)

Costin Ion Murgescu was a Romanian economist, jurist, journalist and diplomat. A supporter of fascism during his youth, he switched to communism by the end of World War II, and became an editor of the Communist Party daily organ, România Liberă. He taught at the University of Bucharest and worked for the Economic Research Institute. Having campaigned for multilateralism in world affairs as early as 1944, he helped to distance Romania from the Soviet Union after 1964, and later represented his country at the United Nations. He wrote extensively, publishing works on the effects of land reform a...

#5047

Henryk Korowicz

Henryk Korowicz

1888 - 1941 (53 years)

Henryk Korowicz was a Polish economist, professor and rector of the Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów. His father was Joachim Kornreich-Korowicz . He studied in Munich and Strasbourg. Before 1918, he published under the name Dr. Henryk Kornreich. During the First World War, he served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and, after Polish independence, in the Polish Army, during the Polish-Soviet War, on the Volhynia front. He worked for several years at Bank Polski in Warsaw. After his marriage to Olga Pawłowska, a colleague and noblewoman from Bukovina, he lived in Lwów.

#5048

John V. Van Sickle

1892 - 1975 (83 years)

John Valentine Van Sickle was a professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and Wabash College. He wrote and co-authored a number of articles on the economy of the American south. He also co-authored a principles of economics textbook with Benjamin Rogge. He was the author of Freedom in Jeopardy.

#5049

Eiichi Sugimoto

1901 - 1952 (51 years)

Eiichi Sugimoto was a Japanese economist and professor at the Tokyo University of Commerce who was a pioneer of mathematical economics in Japan. He participated in the Tokuzō Fukuda Seminar, and majored in Marxist economics at the Tokyo University of Commerce and went on to study in Germany before returning to Japan.

#5050

Kuo Ping-Wen

1880 - 1969 (89 years)

Kuo Ping-Wen or Guo Bingwen , courtesy name Hongsheng , was an influential Chinese educator. Biography Kuo was born in Shanghai, Jiangsu province, and his father was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He attended Lowrie Institute , which was connected with the First Presbyterian Church in Shanghai , graduating in 1896. Kuo Ping-wen then served in the customs and postal bureaus before coming to the United States in 1906 under the sponsorship of the Presbyterian Church, at first attending the Preparatory Academy at the University of Wooster, now the College of Wooster, in Ohio, and later, in 1...

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