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#4551

Paul Cootner

1930 - 1978 (48 years)

Paul Harold Cootner was a financial economist noted for his book The Random Character of Stock Market Prices. Cootner was born in Logansport, Indiana. He attended the University of Florida, where he earned bachelor's and master's degree. He received a PhD in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953.

#4552

R. G. D. Allen

1906 - 1983 (77 years)

Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute. Life Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He gained a First Class Honours in Mathematics, ranking top of his year as the Senior Wrangler.

#4553

Hector Menteith Robertson

1905 - 1984 (79 years)

Hector Menteith Robertson was an economic historian who held the positions of Jagger Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town and president of the Economic Society of South Africa . He was also an editor and frequent contributor to the South African Journal of Economics.

#4554

Joyce P. Jacobsen

1900 - Present (126 years)

Joyce Penelope Jacobsen is a former President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Dr. Jacobsen was elected as the 29th President of Hobart College and the 18th President of William Smith College. Jacobsen is a scholar of economics, an award-winning teacher and an experienced administrator. She began her presidency on July 1, 2019. She is the first woman to serve as president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

#4555

George E. Barnett

1873 - 1938 (65 years)

George Ernest Barnett was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University from 1911 to 1938. In 1932, he served as president of the American Economic Association. External links

#4556

Leverett S. Lyon

Leverett S. Lyon

1885 - 1959 (74 years)

Leverett Samuel Lyon was an American economist, lawyer and business executive, known for his works on education, government, marketing, and economic life, and particularly on the National Recovery Administration.

#4557

Carl Snyder

1869 - 1946 (77 years)

Carl Snyder was an American economist and statistician. Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied in Paris, he was chiefly self-taught. He began as a journalist; at the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell, later writing editorials for The Washington Post. Snyder was also something of a science writer, authoring popular articles in magazines such as McClure's and the Fortnightly Review about, for example, Jacques Loeb's experiments on the nature of living tissue. He was a president of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the American Association ...

#4558

Frank Ellis

Frank Ellis is an author and former lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Leeds who was suspended for racism. Life Before entering academia, Ellis served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Air Service. Prior to his appointment at Leeds University he taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

#4559

Alzada Comstock

1888 - 1960 (72 years)

Alzada Peckham Comstock was an economist who taught at Mount Holyoke College. She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926. Early life and education Comstock was born in Waterford, Connecticut. She earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1910, followed by a master's degree from Columbia University in 1913. In 1921, she completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University.

#4560

Lewis Henry Haney

1882 - 1969 (87 years)

Lewis Henry Haney was a conservative American economist, professor, and economic columnist. He was born in Eureka, Illinois, and educated at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois. He received a B.A. and M.A. from Dartmouth College. Ned

#4561

Louis M. Hacker

1899 - 1987 (88 years)

Louis Morton Hacker was an American economic historian, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, and founding dean of its School of General Studies, and author. He is known as a leading proponent of adult education.

#4562

Ernest O. Melby

1891 - 1987 (96 years)

Ernest Oscar Melby was a professor, dean, and university president. Background Ernest Oscar Melby was born in Lake Park, Minnesota. He was the son of Ole Hans Melby and Ellen Melby. Melby received his B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1913. He attended graduate school at the University of Minnesota to receive his master's degree and Ph.D. He married Aurora Herbert on December 29, 1914. Aurora and Ernest Melby met in Alexandria, Minnesota, when he was a physics teacher. They had one child, Stanley Herbert Melby.

#4563

Lillian Penson

1896 - 1963 (67 years)

Dame Lillian Margery Penson, DBE was a professor of modern history at the University of London, and the first woman to serve as Vice-Chancellor of the university. Early life She was born in Islington, London, the eldest daughter of a wholesale dairy manager. She was educated privately and then first attended Birkbeck College and then University College, London where she graduated BA in 1917 with a first and in 1921 one of the earliest PhDs.

#4564

Colston Warne

1900 - 1987 (87 years)

Colston Estey Warne was a professor of economics and one of the founders of Consumers Union , in 1936. He served as president of the board of directors from 1936 to 1979. He also served as President of the International Organization of Consumers Unions from 1960 to 1970, which later became Consumers International under Rhoda Karpatkin. He was the father of Barbara Newell.

#4565

Petrus Johannes Verdoorn

1911 - 1982 (71 years)

#4566

George Frederick Warren Jr.

1874 - 1938 (64 years)

George Frederick Warren Jr. was an agricultural economist who became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was central to Roosevelt's momentous decision to take the United States off the gold standard.

#4567

Henryk Grossman

1881 - 1950 (69 years)

Henryk Grossman was a Polish economist, historian, and Marxist revolutionary active in both Poland and Germany. Grossman's key contribution to political-economic theory was his book, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, a study in Marxian crisis theory. It was published in Leipzig months before the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

#4568

Paul Nystrom

1878 - 1969 (91 years)

Paul Henry Nystrom was an American economist, and professor of marketing at Columbia University. He is most known as pioneer in marketing, and for his The Economics of Retailing and his Economics of Fashion .

#4569

John Piggott

John Reginald Piggott is an Australian economist. He is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

#4570

Daniel Cosío Villegas

1898 - 1976 (78 years)

Daniel Cosío Villegas was a Mexican prominent economist, essayist, historian, and diplomat. Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he received a B.A. in Law from the National University and took several courses in economics at Harvard, Wisconsin and Cornell. Later, he received master's degrees from the London School of Economics and the École libre de sciences politiques of Paris .

#4571

Elisha Pazner

1941 - 1979 (38 years)

Elisha Aryeh Pazner was an Israeli economic- and game theorist with important contributions in the theory of welfare economics and fair division. He was a member of the Department of Economics at Tel-Aviv University from 1971 until his death. During this time he spent over two years as a visiting professor at Northwestern University.

#4572

Susan Myra Kingsbury

1870 - 1949 (79 years)

Susan Myra Kingsbury was an American professor of economics and a pioneer of social research. Biography Susan was born in San Pablo, California, in 1870, the daughter of Willard Belmont Kingsbury, M.D., and Helen Shuler née DeLamater, and was raised in Stockton, California. Her father died when she was six, leaving Helen to raise Susan and her brother. Helen was dean of women at the College of the Pacific, where Susan would matriculate then graduate with honors in 1890. From 1892 to 1900 she was a history teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco, while tending to her ailing mother. She graduated with an A.M.

#4573

George Kuznets

1909 - 1986 (77 years)

George M. Kuznets was an American economist. A member of the University of California, Berkeley's department of agricultural and resource economics, he specialized in agricultural economics. Regarded by his peers as a pioneer in quantitative research, Kuznets was appointed a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1982, the highest honor of his profession. He was also elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in 1960.

#4574

Eleanor Lansing Dulles

1895 - 1996 (101 years)

Eleanor Lansing Dulles was an American writer, professor, and United States government employee. Her background in economics and her familiarity with European affairs enabled her to fill a number of important State Department positions.

#4575

Walter Heller

1915 - 1987 (72 years)

Article needs information concerning family. Walter Wolfgang Heller was a leading American economist of the 1960s, and an influential adviser to President John F. Kennedy as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1961–64.

#4576

Oran B. Hesterman

1900 - Present (126 years)

Oran B. Hesterman is the president and chief executive officer of Fair Food Network, a non-profit organization based in Ann Arbor Michigan, is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems and the author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All , as well as more than 400 reports and articles on subjects such as cover crops, crop rotation, and the impact of philanthropic investments on food systems practice and policy.

#4577

Vera Lutz

1912 - 1976 (64 years)

Vera Constance Lutz, , was a British economist. She was married to the German economist Friedrich Lutz. Career Smith was born in Kent, England, and studied at the London School of Economics between 1930 and 1935 for a PhD. In 1937, she married German economist Friedrich Lutz, and the couple moved to Princeton University prior to the start of the Second World War, and moved to Zurich in 1951. Lutz's main areas of study were credit theory, economic development theory and labour economics. Vera and Friedrich's 1951 work Theory of Investment of the Firm was said to have "greatly influenced modern capital theory, and would remain a major source of reference for the next decade".

#4578

James Harvey Rogers

James Harvey Rogers

1886 - 1939 (53 years)

James Harvey Rogers was Yale University Sterling Professor of Economics from 1931 until his death in 1939. He was an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on monetary economics from 1933 to 1934. He was a student of Irving Fisher and Vilfredo Pareto and is considered Fisher's closest disciple and a proto-Keynesian.

#4579

Ferdynand Zweig

Ferdynand Zweig

1896 - 1988 (92 years)

Ferdynand Zweig was a Polish sociologist and economist noted for his studies of the British working classes. Life in Poland Zweig was born in 1896 in the Polish city of Krakow into a middle-class Jewish family. He studied at the Universities of Krakow and Vienna, took a Doctor of Law degree, and taught economics in Poland in the 1930s, eventually being appointed to the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Krakow. He and his family escaped the country during the German occupation in 1939, fleeing through Romania, France and the Soviet Union, but one daughter was captured in France a...

#4580

Edward H. Litchfield

Edward H. Litchfield

1914 - 1968 (54 years)

Edward Harold Litchfield was an American educator and the twelfth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh. He is best known for a major expansion of the university, but also a failure to raise sufficient capital to fund such growth, eventually leading to his resignation in July 1965.

#4581

Isaiah Leo Sharfman

1886 - 1969 (83 years)

Isaiah Leo Sharfman was an American economist. He was a professor at the University of Michigan from 1914 to 1955 and served as the president of the American Economic Association in 1945. Early life and education Sharfman was born into a Jewish family in the Russian Empire and came to the United States in 1894. He attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University, graduating with an B. A. in 1907 and LL.B. in 1910. He was an assistant in economics at Harvard College while studying for his degree in law.

#4582

Elmer Ellis

1901 - 1989 (88 years)

Elmer Ellis was an American educator and fourteenth president of the University of Missouri from 1955 to 1966, and first president of the University of Missouri System. He was instrumental in the expansion of the university to include the University of Missouri–Kansas City and University of Missouri–St. Louis. Ellis Library was named in his honor.

#4583

Ingvar Svennilson

1908 - 1972 (64 years)

Sven Ingvar Svennilson was a Swedish economist that became known for his theories in planned economics. He was a member of the Stockholm School of Economic Thought. From 1969–1971, he was a member of the committee that selects the laureates for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, the Economics Prize Committee.

#4584

Wallace Brett Donham

1877 - 1954 (77 years)

Wallace Brett Donham was an American organizational theorist, professor of business administration and the second dean of the Harvard Business School, from 1919 to 1942. The use of case studies in the HBS education curriculum was greatly expanded during Donham's time as dean.

#4585

Ralph C. Davis

1894 - Present (132 years)

Ralph Currier Davis was an American industrial and consulting engineer, Professor of Business Organization at Ohio State University, and organizational theorist. He is known for his work on top management, especially his 1951 extension of Henri Fayol's work.

#4586

Leo Rogin

1893 - 1947 (54 years)

Leo Rogin was an American economist, economic historian and historian of economic thought. Major publications "The Introduction of Farm Machinery in its Relation to the Productivity of Labor in the Agriculture of the United States During the 19th Century", 1931."Werner Sombart and the 'Natural Science Method' in Economics", JPE, 1933."American Economic Thought", AER, 1933."The New Deal: A Survey of the Literature", QJE, 1935."Davenport on the Economics of Alfred Marshall", AER, 1936."The Significance of Marxian Economics for Current Trends of Government Policy", AER, 1938."Werner Sombart and ...

#4587

Harry Gideonse

1901 - 1985 (84 years)

Harry David Gideonse was a Dutch-born American economist. He was the second President of Brooklyn College, from 1939 to 1966, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research from 1966 until 1975.

#4588

Oswald Knauth

1887 - 1962 (75 years)

Oswald Whitman Knauth was an economist and business executive. Knauth served as an executive at both R. H. Macy & Co. and Associated Dry Goods Corporation . He helped found the National Bureau of Economic Research. Knauth also served as president of the board of directors of the American Economic Association and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

#4589

Karl Brandt

1899 - 1975 (76 years)

Karl Brandt was a German-American agricultural economist. Brandt was born in Essen. He fled from Germany to the U.S. in 1933, shortly after the Nazi regime came to power. He was successively a professor and researcher at the New School for Social Research, the American Institute for Food Distribution, and Stanford University .

#4590

Clara Eliot

1896 - 1976 (80 years)

Clara Eliot was an economist known for her work in consumer economics. She taught economics at Barnard College for many years. Biography Eliot was born in 1896, the granddaughter of Thomas Lamb Eliot and part of a prominent Unitarian branch of the Eliot family. She did her undergraduate studies at Reed College, which her grandfather had founded, graduating in 1917. She taught at Mills College from 1917 to 1918, and then worked as an assistant to Yale economist Irving Fisher from 1918 to 1920. She also worked as an elementary school teacher; one of her students from this time, Margaret E. Mart...

#4591

Frank Hindman Golay

1915 - 1990 (75 years)

Frank Hindman Golay was an American economist. Golay was born in Windsor, Missouri, on July 2, 1915, and served in the United States Navy during World War II. After his military service, Golay obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1951, and worked for the Federal Reserve Board until 1953, when he joined the Cornell University as an assistant professor of economics and Asian studies. In 1960, Golay received a Guggenheim fellowship. He was named chair of the Cornell Department of Economics in 1963, and left the position in 1967. He taught at SOAS, University of London as a visiting professor on a Fulbright grant from 1965 to 1966.

#4592

John Warren

1895 - 1960 (65 years)

John Herbert Warren OBE, was a British trade unionist. Warren studied at the University of Liverpool before finding work in the clerks' department of Birkenhead Corporation. In 1933, he was promoted to become an assistant solicitor, then served as town clerk in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, followed by Slough. From 1933 to 1945, he also worked as a part-time lecturer at the University of Liverpool.

#4593

Paul Homan

1893 - 1969 (76 years)

Paul Thomas Homan was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Cornell University from 1929 to 1947. Early life Homan was born in Indianola, Iowa. Homan earned bachelor's degrees from Willamette College, and with a Rhodes Scholarship, the University of Oxford, graduating in 1919. He earned a PhD at the Brookings Institution in 1926.

#4594

Edward S. Mason

1899 - 1992 (93 years)

Edward Sagendorph Mason was an American economist and professor at Harvard University. He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as the John F. Kennedy School of Government, from 1947 to 1958. He was the president of the American Economic Association in 1962.

#4595

Miguel Sidrauski

1939 - 1968 (29 years)

Miguel Sidrauski was an Argentine economist who made important contributions to the theory of economic growth by developing a modified version of the Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model to describe the effects of money on long-run growth. He also published an article on exchange rate determination. Sidrauski taught economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#4596

Gordon Cameron

1937 - 1990 (53 years)

Gordon Campbell Cameron was a British economist and academic. He was Professor of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge from 1980 to 1990, and Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1988 to 1990.

#4597

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock

1869 - 1944 (75 years)

Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.

#4598

Oscar Elton Sette

Oscar Elton Sette

1900 - 1972 (72 years)

Oscar Elton Sette , who preferred to be called Elton Sette, was an influential 20th-century American fisheries scientist. During a five-decade career with the United States Bureau of Fisheries, United States Fish and Wildlife Service and its Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, and the National Marine Fisheries Service, Sette pioneered the integration of fisheries science with the sciences of oceanography and meteorology to develop a complete understanding of the physical and biological characteristics of the ocean environment and the effects of those characteristics on fisheries and fluctuations in the abundance of fish.

#4599

Persia Campbell

Persia Campbell

1898 - 1974 (76 years)

Persia Gwendoline Crawford Campbell was an Australian-born American economist who championed consumer rights worldwide. Early life Persia Crawford Campbell, was born March 15, 1898, at Nerrigundah, New South Wales. She was the daughter of school teachers, Rodolfe Archibald Clarence Campbell and his second wife Beatrice Hunt. Persia was educated in Sydney at Fort Street Girls' High School before going on to university, where she took her B.A from the University of Sydney in 1918, followed by her M.A. in 1920. She had obtained first-class honours in history.

#4600

Paul Fauconnet

1874 - 1938 (64 years)

Paul Fauconnet was a French sociologist who is best known as a contributor to the L'Année Sociologique. Fauconnet aggregated in philosophy in 1892 and earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1895. He also earned a further doctorate in law in 1920, although his interest in the law was purely scholarly and he never practiced as a lawyer. He became a professor at the faculty of letters in 1907 at the University of Toulouse and later chargé de cours at the faculty of letters in 1921 in Paris, obtaining a chair in 1932. His dissertation was entitled La responsabilité: Etude de sociologie . It adopt...

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