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#4501

Richard Ehrenberg

1857 - 1921 (64 years)

Richard Ehrenberg was a German economist. He taught at Rostock University from 1899 to 1921. Literary works Hamburg und Antwerpen seit 300 Jahren, 1889Hamburg und England im Zeitalter der Königin Elisabeth, 1896Das Zeitalter der Fugger, 2 Vols., 1896, -- an English translation is also available: Richard Ehrenberg, Capital & Finance in the Age of the Renaissance: A Study of the Fuggers and Their Connections, 1928, reprinted 1985Das Familie in ihrer Bedeutung für das Volksleben, 1916

#4502

Elizabeth Brunner

1920 - 1983 (63 years)

Elizabeth Brunner was a British economist, best known for her work in industrial economics with Philip Andrews. Brunner was partly responsible for "the resuscitation of industrial economics", giving the subject a new theoretical basis by defining an industry, as separate from a market, based on a group of firms with similar processes of production. Together with Andrews she made several contributions to business history: Capital Development in Steel , The Eagle Ironworkers, Oxford and, their biography of British industrialist, The Life of Lord Nuffield . Her clear style and disciplined approach contributed a lot to their joint work.

#4503

Gheorghe Zane

1897 - 1978 (81 years)

Gheorghe Zane was a Romanian economist and historian. Born in Galați, he attended Vasile Alecsandri National College before enrolling in the law faculty of the University of Iași. He graduated from that institution in 1920, earning a doctorate from the University of Bucharest in 1923. His first teaching job, from 1921 to 1924, was at the agriculture faculty in Iași, where his courses dealt with political economy. Securing a post as associate professor in the same subject at the Iași law faculty in 1924, he advanced to full professor in 1929, teaching the history of economic doctrines. The following year, he switched to teaching political economy and finance, continuing to do so until 1945.

#4504

Walter W. Stewart

1885 - 1958 (73 years)

Walter W. Stewart was an American economist and banking expert. He was an economics advisor to four presidents, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Eisenhower. Education and career Stewart graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Missouri in 1909. He was a professor of economics at the University of Missouri, the University of Michigan and Amherst College. He joined the faculty of the School of Economics and Politics at the Institute for Advanced Study on September 1, 1938, and remained there until his death in 1958.

#4505

Liston Pope

1909 - 1974 (65 years)

Liston Corlando Pope was an American clergyman, author, theological educator, and dean of Yale University Divinity School from 1949 to 1962. Early life Pope was born in Thomasville, North Carolina, the son of Robie Lester Pope and his wife, née Dora Vivian Younts. Robie Pope was a banker, a city councilman andmayor of Thomasville, and had served in the North Carolina House of Representatives. Liston Pope considered his father to be a "banker with a conscience" and an inspiration in his study of social problems from the Christian point of view.

#4506

Joseph French Johnson

Joseph French Johnson

1853 - 1925 (72 years)

Joseph French Johnson was an American economist, journalist, Professor, and Dean of the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, New York University, and founding Dean of the Alexander Hamilton Institute in New York in 1909.

#4507

Martha Steffy Browne

1898 - 1990 (92 years)

Martha Steffy Browne was an Austrian American economist. A student of Ludwig von Mises, she earned a doctorate in political economy in 1921 from the University of Vienna, one of the first women to do so. Of Jewish descent, Browne emigrated to the United States in 1939, later becoming a professor of economics at Brooklyn College .

#4508

Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer

1718 - 1787 (69 years)

Johann Friedrich von Pfeiffer was one of the most important German figures of political economy of the 18th century along with Philipp von Hörnigk and Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi. He was a leading practitioner in Cameralism and mercantilism.

#4509

May Louise Cowles

May Louise Cowles

1892 - 1978 (86 years)

May Louise Cowles was an American economist, researcher, author, and advocate of Home Economics. She was a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1915 to 1958. She had many submissions published in the Journal of Home Economics, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and Rural Sociology. She also produced several widely read pamphlets, including Meeting Housing Needs of Older People in Rural Areas , and spoke at a string of national seminars to encourage the addition of family economics to home economics instruction across the United States.

#4510

James A. Field

1880 - 1927 (47 years)

James Alfred Field was an American economist and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Chicago, known as one of the proponents of institutional economics and as demographer, who contributed to the theory of population and its history.

#4511

Larry Neal

1937 - 1981 (44 years)

Larry Neal or Lawrence Neal was a scholar of African-American theatre. He is well known for his contributions to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a major influence in pushing for black culture to focus less on integration with White culture, to that of celebrating their differences within an equally important and meaningful artistic and political field, thus celebrating Black Heritage.

#4512

Nancy Lou Schwartz

1939 - 1981 (42 years)

Nancy Lou Schwartz was an American economist and professor who researched decision sciences and methods of dynamic optimization. Life and career Nancy L. Schwartz earned her AB at Oberlin College in 1960 and attended graduate school at Purdue University, where she received her MS and PhD . While at Purdue, one of her classmates was fellow economist Morton I. Kamien with whom she would publish many academic works.

#4513

Johan Henrik Åkerman

1896 - 1982 (86 years)

Johan Henrik Åkerman was a Swedish economist and was a Professor of Economics and Statistics at Lund University. He was the younger brother to Swedish economist Johan Gustav Åkerman. He got an MBA at Stockholm School of Economics 1918. He then studied at Harvard University 1919-1920, and again in Sweden, he studied among other statistics in the Universities in Uppsala and Lund. He became PhD in 1929 with the thesis about the economic life rhythm which was the first Swedish dissertation that contained elements of econometrics.

#4514

Joseph Hiam Levy

1838 - 1913 (75 years)

Joseph Hiam Levy was an English author and economist. He was educated at the City of London School and joined the Civil Service. He later became a lecturer in economics at Birkbeck College and an important figure in the Personal Rights Association.

#4515

Sidney Weintraub

1914 - 1983 (69 years)

Sidney Weintraub was an American economist, one of the most prominent American members of the Post Keynesian economics school. He was the co-founder and co-editor of The Journal of Post Keynesian Economics . His views included criticism of monetarism and the neoclassical synthesis, and promotion of the tax-based incomes policy .

#4516

James Wilke Nisbet

1903 - 1974 (71 years)

James Wilkie Nisbet was a Scottish economist. He gained a double first in economic science and philosophy, and an LLB with distinction at the University of Glasgow. Between 1926 and 1931 he served as assistant to W. R. Scott, the Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at the University of Glasgow.

#4517

Fang Zong'ao

1884 - 1950 (66 years)

Fang Zong'ao was a late Qing dynasty scholar; a well known economist and jurist in the early Republic of China era, and a professor in economics and law. Fang was born in Puning, Guangdong Province, China, in 1884. In 1903, Fang went to for study. In 1905, Fang returned to his home town Puning after he graduated from the college and established a teachers' college in Puning. In 1908, Fang was granted a scholarship from Qing dynasty government and went to Japan again for his studies. After graduating from Yamaguchi Business School in Yamaguchi Prefecture Fang was admitted to Meiji University.

#4518

Eduard Heimann

1889 - 1967 (78 years)

Eduard Magnus Mortier Heimann was a German economist and social scientist who advocated ethical socialist programs in Germany in the 1920s and later in the United States. He was hostile to capitalism but thought it was possible to combine the advantages of a market economy with those of socialism through competing economic units governed by strong state controls.

#4519

Edward C. Harwood

Edward C. Harwood

1900 - 1980 (80 years)

Edward Crosby Harwood was an economist, philosopher of science, and investment advisor who is most known for founding the nonprofit American Institute for Economic Research in 1933, which survives today in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. AIER is a scientific research organization specialized in economics. It is one of the oldest nonprofit research organizations in the U.S. It is the parent of a for-profit subsidiary, American Investment Services, Inc.

#4520

Adam Contzen

1571 - 1635 (64 years)

Adam Contzen was a German Jesuit economist and exegete. Contzen was born in 1573, or, according to Carlos Sommervogel, in 1575. Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz gives the 1571 date listed above. Contzen entered the Society of Jesus at Trier in 1595. He was professor of philosophy in the University of Würzburg in 1606, and was transferred to the University of Mainz in 1610, where he occupied the chair of Holy Scripture for more than ten years. He had a share in the organization of the University of Molsheim, in Alsace, of which he was chancellor in 1622-23.

#4521

Lev Kritzman

1890 - 1938 (48 years)

Lev Natanovich Kritzman was a Soviet Marxian economist who became a prominent advocate of state planning in the 1920s Soviet economy. However after 1929, his views on agricultural reform were aligned with mass collectivisation and dekulakization introduced by Joseph Stalin.

#4522

László Radványi

1900 - 1978 (78 years)

László Radványi , also known as Johann Lorenz Schmidt, was a Hungarian-German writer and academic. Life Childhood and early career Radványi was born into a Jewish family in Hungary. As a boy, Radványi attended a grammar school on Marko Street in Budapest. While attending grammar school, at the age of 16, he authored a book of poetry, which received a preface from Frigyes Karinthy. Radványi studied economics and philosophy at the University of Budapest from 1918 to 1919, where he became involved in radical politics. With the destruction of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 he fled to Vienn...

#4523

Kunio Maruyama

1903 - 1981 (78 years)

Kunio Maruyama was a Japanese businessman, adventurer, and college professor of English and economics. He was one of the three Japanese men who were secretly sent from Xinjing's Japanese Society, that led to the successful repatriation of most of the 1.6 million Japanese who had been trapped in the former Manchukuo at the end of World War II.

#4524

Sedley Cudmore

1878 - 1945 (67 years)

Sedley Anthony Cudmore was a Canadian economist, academic, civil servant and Canada's second Dominion Statistician. Early years Cudmore was born in County Cork, Ireland. At age 9 he and his family immigrated to Canada.

#4525

Sidney Sherwood

1860 - 1901 (41 years)

Sidney Sherwood was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University from 1892 to 1901, where he succeeded his teacher Richard T. Ely who had left for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as head of the political economy program. Although a student of Ely's, Sherwood was one of the early American Marginalists.

#4526

Richmond Mayo-Smith

1854 - 1901 (47 years)

Richmond Mayo-Smith was an American economist noted for his work in statistics. He was born in Troy, Ohio, educated at Amherst College , then at Berlin and Heidelberg University. He became assistant professor of economics at Columbia University in 1877. He was an adjunct professor from 1878 to 1883, when he was appointed professor of political economy and social science, a post which he held until his death in 1901.

#4527

George W. Stocking Sr.

1892 - 1975 (83 years)

George Ward Stocking Sr. was an American economist, who was one of the pioneers of industrial organization and an early writer on international cartels. After completing a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1925, he was professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin from 1926 to 1947. During 1933-1943 he held several positions with the federal government, including the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advised Attorney General Thurman Arnold. He founded and was professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University in 1947, where he remained from 1947 to 1963.

#4528

Terence C. Mills

#4529

Otto Nathan

1893 - 1987 (94 years)

Otto Nathan was an economist who taught at Princeton University , New York University , Vassar College , and Howard University . Nathan was a close friend of Albert Einstein for many years and was designated by Einstein as co-trustee of his literary estate with Helen Dukas.

#4530

Charles Henry Hull

1864 - 1936 (72 years)

Charles Henry Hull was an American economist and historian. He worked at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. In 1900, he was appointed professor of American History. In 1899, he published The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty in two volumes. This edition has become the standard source for referring to the economic writings of Sir William Petty .

#4531

Nicolai Rygg

1872 - 1957 (85 years)

Nicolai Theodorius Nilssen Rygg was a Norwegian economist and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway. Biography He was born in Stavanger as a son of shoemaker Ole Nilssen Rygg and Ane Severine Larsdatter . He was a brother of journalist Andreas Nilsen Rygg. In 1910 he married physician's daughter Agnes Isidore Margrethe Sibbern Møller .

#4532

Charles L. Beach

1866 - 1933 (67 years)

Charles Lewis Beach was an American agricultural educator who served as the 4th president of Connecticut Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut, from 1908 to 1928. Beach played a pivotal role in UConn's development. He also laid the foundations for the future William Benton Museum of Art. Beach is one of only five presidents to hold the honorary title of President Emeritus.

#4533

James Wilson

1805 - 1860 (55 years)

James Wilson was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded The Economist weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to form Standard Chartered. He was the first Finance Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council from December 1859 until his death in August 1860. Sent there to put order into the chaos that followed the "Sepoy Mutiny" of 1857, he presented India's first budget, and was responsible for the government accounting system, Pay Office, and audit, apart from government paper currency, Indian Police, a...

#4534

Thomas Swain Barclay

1892 - 1993 (101 years)

Thomas Swain Barclay was a professor of political science at Stanford University. He taught five U.S. senators and countless other Stanford University students over three decades. Barclay was born into a politically active Democratic family in St. Louis, Missouri.

#4535

Alex Hunter

1919 - 1971 (52 years)

Alexander Hunter was a Scottish-Australian industrial economist. He arrived in Australia in 1958 after being appointed a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He then gained prominence as the editor of The Economics of Australian Industry. He became a professor of economics at the University of New South Wales in 1961, then moving to the Australian National University in 1965. He was a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. He was married to Thelma Anna Carmela Cibelli and had three children. Hunter died of a coronary occlusion during a visit t...

#4536

Ernest Boyd MacNaughton

1880 - 1960 (80 years)

Ernest Boyd MacNaughton was president of the First National Bank of Oregon , then chairman , president of The Oregonian publishing company , and president of Reed College . He is the namesake of the ACLU E.B. MacNaughton Civil Liberties Award.

#4537

William Cunningham Smith

1871 - 1943 (72 years)

William Cunningham Smith was an American academic of English literature, university administrator, and writer. Life and career Born in Greensboro, Smith was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He attended graduate school at Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1900 he came to the State Normal and Industrial College as a professor of English, and in 1904 he became head of the department. In 1905, Smith became Dean of the College, in 1915 Dean of the Faculty, and in 1922 Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. During his tenure at the College he was chairman of chapel and conducted devotional services.

#4538

Carl Heinrich Hagen

Carl Heinrich Hagen

1785 - 1856 (71 years)

Carl Heinrich Hagen was a jurist, socio-economist and, between 1811 and 1835, senior government official . From 1811 he was also a professor of jurisprudence and the University of Königsberg in what was at that time East Prussia.

#4539

Hugo Richard Meyer

Hugo Richard Meyer

1866 - 1923 (57 years)

Hugo Richard Meyer was an American author and economist concerned with public ownership of telegraph, phone, railway and other utilities. Biography Meyer graduated from Harvard College in 1892, and attended the Harvard Graduate School in 1892-96 where he received an A.M. in 1894. He was instructor in political economy at Harvard in 1897-1903, and was assistant professor in that subject at the University of Chicago in 1904-05. After 1907, he resided in Melbourne where he was writing a history of state ownership in Victoria, Australia.

#4540

George Grafton Wilson

1863 - 1951 (88 years)

George Grafton Wilson was a distinguished professor of International Law during the first half of the 20th century. He served on the faculties of Brown University, Harvard University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the U.S. Naval War College.

#4541

Werner von Siemens

Werner von Siemens

1816 - 1892 (76 years)

Ernst Werner Siemens was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He founded the electrical and telecommunications conglomerate Siemens and invented the electric tram, trolley bus, electric locomotive and electric elevator.

#4542

John Lee Coulter

1881 - 1959 (78 years)

John Lee Coulter was an American academic. He assumed several roles within the federal government, and served as president of the North Dakota Agriculture College from 1921 to 1929. Coulter was born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, on April 16, 1881, and attended the University of North Dakota before earning his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1908. He began teaching at the University of Minnesota later that year. Coulter started working for the federal government in 1910, leading the U. S. Census of Agriculture. He helped establish the system of banks and credit unions for rural use under the provisions of the Federal Farm Loan Act.

#4543

Andrew Dewar Gibb

1888 - 1974 (86 years)

Andrew Dewar Gibb MBE QC was a Scottish advocate, barrister, professor and politician. He taught law at Edinburgh and Cambridge, and was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow 1934–1958. Gibb was the leader of the Scottish National Party from 1936 to 1940.

#4544

Johannes Broene

1875 - 1967 (92 years)

Johannes Broene was an academic and twice served as president of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US. He was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and his father was a minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Broene attended the University of Michigan and Valparaiso University, from which he graduated in 1906. He went on to do graduate work at Clark University and pursued his doctorate at Clark, while working as a teacher and later principal of Christian schools in Paterson, New Jersey, and Chicago, Illinois. He joined the Calvin College faculty in 1908, teaching primarily in Philosophy and Education.

#4545

Kenneth Hill

1911 - 1973 (62 years)

Kenneth Robson Hill was a British academic and academic administrator. He was educated at Washington Secondary School and King's College London. He was Professor of Pathology at University College of the West Indies from 1949 to 1956. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Nigeria however his tenure was cut short because of ill health He was a member of the Athenaeum Club.

#4546

Boris Brutskus

1874 - 1938 (64 years)

Boris Davydovich Brutskus was an economist from the Russian Empire. Brutskus was born in Polangen/Palanga in Lithuania, which was then part of the Russian Empire. His brother was the historian and politician Julius Brutzkus.

#4547

Ke Shaomin

1850 - 1933 (83 years)

Ke Shaomin , courtesy name Fengsun , also known by his art name Liaoyuan , was a Chinese historian from Jiaozhou, Shandong. He is most known for writing the New History of Yuan, one of the Twenty-Five Histories, and helping to lead the compilation of the Draft History of Qing. He was a secretary in the Qing dynasty court in its final years.

#4548

K. C. Hsiao

1897 - 1981 (84 years)

K. C. Hsiao was a Chinese historian and political scientist, best known for his contributions to Chinese political science and history. Life and career Hsiao first travelled to the United States in 1920 on the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program, remaining there for six years and earning a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1926. He returned to China and was professor of political science at Yenching University from 1930 to 1932, then at Tsinghua University from 1932 to 1937. With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he left to teach at Sichuan University and Kwang Hua University.

#4549

Peter DeMarzo

1900 - Present (126 years)

Peter M. DeMarzo is an American economist. He was educated at the University of California, San Diego. Upon graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1984, DeMarzo pursued graduate study at Stanford University, finishing his master's degree and doctorate in 1984 and 1989, respectively. DeMarzo began teaching at the Kellogg School of Management in 1989, and remained on the faculty at Northwestern University through 1997. Between 1995 and 1997, he was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford, after which he secured an associate professorship at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley.

#4550

Henry Ludwell Moore

1869 - 1958 (89 years)

Henry Ludwell Moore was an American economist known for his pioneering work in econometrics. Paul Samuelson named Moore as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860. Biography Moore was born in Charles County, Maryland, the first of 15 children. He received a B.A. from Randolph-Macon College in 1892 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1896. His thesis was on von Thünen's theory of the natural wage. The visiting lecturers included Simon Newcomb and J. B. Clark and he may have learned some mathematical economics from them. While doing the Ph.D., he spent a year at the University of Vienna.

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