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#4751

John Henry Williams

1887 - 1980 (93 years)

John Henry Williams was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Harvard University from 1921 to 1957. He was later appointed dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard, and also served as Nathaniel Ropes Professor. He was an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. In 1951, he was president of the American Economic Association. The John H. Williams Prize was established at Harvard in 1958.

#4752

Alexander Chayanov

Alexander Chayanov

1888 - 1937 (49 years)

Alexander Vasilyevich Chayanov was a Russian, then Soviet agrarian economist, scholar of rural sociology, and advocate of agrarianism and cooperatives. Personal life Chayanov was born in Moscow, the son of a merchant, Vasily Ivanovich Chayanov, and an agronomist, Elena Konstantinovna . He attended a Realschule and the Moscow Agricultural Institute , becoming an agronomist; he taught and published works on agriculture until 1914, when he began working for various government institutions. In 1912 he married Elena Vasilevna Grigorieva, a marriage that lasted until 1920. In 1921 he married Olga ...

#4753

Simon Patten

1852 - 1922 (70 years)

Simon Nelson Patten was an American economist and the chair of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Patten was one of the first economists to posit a shift from an 'economics of scarcity' to an 'economics of abundance'; that is, he believed that soon there would be enough wealth to satisfy people's basic needs and that the economy would shift from an emphasis on production to consumption.

#4754

Paul Marlor Sweezy

#4755

William Smart

1853 - 1915 (62 years)

William Smart was a Scottish economist. Initially inspired by Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, Smart was a conveyor of the thought of the Austrian School, before being won-over to the neoclassicalism of Alfred Marshall.

#4756

John D. Black

1883 - 1960 (77 years)

John Donald Black was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at University of Minnesota from 1918 to 1927, and then from 1927 to 1956 at Harvard University. Black was one of the authors of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. He was also president of the American Economic Association in 1955. Black died at a Boston hospital in 1960.

#4757

Arthur Spiethoff

1873 - 1957 (84 years)

Arthur Spiethoff was a German economist, born in Düsseldorf. He studied economics at the University of Berlin, and later taught in Prague and Bonn.

#4758

William Z. Ripley

1867 - 1941 (74 years)

William Zebina Ripley was an American economist, lecturer at Columbia University, professor of economics at MIT, professor of political economy at Harvard University, and racial anthropologist. Ripley was famous for his criticisms of American railroad economics and American business practices in the 1920s and 1930s, and later for his tripartite racial theory of Europe. His work of racial anthropology was later taken up by racial physical anthropologists, eugenicists, white supremacists, Nordicists, and racists in general, and it was considered a valid academic work at the time, although today...

#4759

Thomas Nixon Carver

Thomas Nixon Carver

1865 - 1961 (96 years)

Thomas Nixon Carver was an American economics professor. Early life He grew up on a farm, the son of Quaker parents. He received an undergraduate education at Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Southern California. After studying under John Bates Clark and Richard T. Ely at Johns Hopkins University, he received a PhD degree at Cornell University under Walter Francis Willcox in 1894.

#4760

Jeremiah Jenks

1856 - 1929 (73 years)

Jeremiah Whipple Jenks was an American economist, educator, and Professor at Cornell University, who held various posts in the US government throughout his career. He served as a member of the Dillingham Immigration Commission from 1907 to 1914 in which he led research projects on the state of immigration to the United States.

#4761

Constantin von Dietze

1891 - 1973 (82 years)

Friedrich Carl Nicolaus Constantin von Dietze was an agronomist, lawyer, economist, and theologian. He was a member of both the Confessing Church and the "Freiburg Circle" during the Nazi era. Early life and World War I Friedrich Carl Nicolaus Constantin von Dietze was born in Gottesgnaden, the son of a former Rittmeister, Constantin von Dietze by his marriage to Johanna Gündell. His grandfather, Adolf von Dietze-Barby, was a close friend of Otto von Bismarck and a conservative member of the Prussian House of Representatives.

#4762

Katharine Coman

Katharine Coman

1857 - 1915 (58 years)

Katharine Ellis Coman was an American social activist and professor. She was based at the women-only Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where she created new courses in political economy, in line with her personal belief in social change. As dean, she established a new department of economics and sociology.

#4763

Davis Rich Dewey

1858 - 1942 (84 years)

Davis Rich Dewey was an American economist and statistician. He was born at Burlington, Vermont. Like his well-known younger brother, John Dewey, he was educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University. He later became professor of economics and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the Massachusetts state board on the question of the unemployed , member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable, and reformatory interests , special expert agent on wages for the 12th census, and member of a state commission on industrial rela...

#4764

Wolfgang Stützel

1925 - 1987 (62 years)

Wolfgang Stützel was a German economist and professor of economics at the Saarland University, Germany. From 1966 to 1968 he was member of the German Council of Economic Experts . He coined the concept of Macroeconomic Mechanics of Balances .

#4765

John Burr Williams

1900 - 1989 (89 years)

John Burr Williams was an American economist, recognized as an important figure in the field of fundamental analysis, and for his analysis of stock prices as reflecting their "intrinsic value". He is best known for his 1938 text The Theory of Investment Value, based on his PhD thesis, in which he articulated the theory of discounted cash flow based valuation, and in particular, dividend based valuation.

#4766

Alfred H. Conrad

1924 - 1970 (46 years)

Alfred Haskell Conrad was a distinguished professor of economics at Harvard University and City College of New York. He belonged to the quantitative economic current called new economic history, or cliometrics.

#4767

Emil Lederer

1882 - 1939 (57 years)

Emil Lederer was a Bohemiann-born German economist and sociologist. Purged from his position at Humboldt University of Berlin in 1933 for being Jewish, Lederer fled into exile. He helped establish the "University in Exile" at the New School in New York City.

#4768

Leopold von Wiese

Leopold von Wiese

1876 - 1969 (93 years)

Leopold Max Walther von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau was a German sociologist and economist, as well as professor and chairman of the German Sociological Association. Biography Leopold von Wiese was the only son of a prematurely deceased Prussian officer and received his education at the cadet schools in Wahlstatt and Lichterfelde. After leaving the cadet corps, he then studied economics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin where he got his Ph.D. in 1902. Subsequently, he was scientific secretary of the "Institute for the common good" in Frankfurt. In 1905, he was Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Berlin.

#4769

Itsurō Sakisaka

1897 - 1985 (88 years)

Itsurō Sakisaka was a Japanese Marxian economist. A professor of economics at Kyushu University, he is remembered as a leading theoretician of the Japan Socialist Party. Biography Sakisaka was born in Ōmuta, Fukuoka in 1897. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1921. When he was a university student, he read Karl Marx’s writings as a way to study German, and wound up becoming a Marxist. Sakisaka studied in Germany from 1922 to 1925. During the hyperinflation in Germany after World War I, he was able to purchase numerous editions of Karl Marx’s writings at low prices. After he returned to Japan, he became an assistant professor at Kyushu University.

#4770

Kuruma Samezō

1893 - 1982 (89 years)

Kuruma Samezō , September 24, 1893 -October 20, 1982 was a Japanese economist. He was professor emeritus at Hōsei University where he ran the Ōhara Institute for Social Research, and was best known as the compiler of a Lexicon of Marxist Political Economy. He is the father of Rikkyō University professor emeritus Kuruma Ken.

#4771

Pierre Massé

1898 - 1987 (89 years)

Pierre Benjamin Daniel Massé was an economist, engineer, applied mathematician, and high official in the French government. Education and career After graduation from l'École polytechnique, Massé became an engineer at l'École nationale des ponts et chaussées and a Doctor of Science. From 1928 he worked in the electrical industry and became at Électricité de France in 1946 the director of electrical equipment and operations and in 1948 the deputy general manager. In 1957 he became president of l'Électricité de Strasbourg. In 1959 Charles de Gaulle named him Commissaire général du Plan and he held this position until 1966.

#4772

Johannes Conrad

Johannes Conrad

1839 - 1915 (76 years)

Johannes Ernst Conrad was a German political economist. Johannes Conrad was a Professor of economics in Halle , Prussian Germany. He was a co-founder of the important Verein für Socialpolitik in 1872. Late in his career, in 1911, he became the director of the newly established Institute for Co-operative Studies at the University of Halle. Conrad was an expert in political economy and became the editor of the influential Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik in 1870.

#4773

Pietro Verri

1728 - 1797 (69 years)

Count Pietro Verri was an Italian economist, historian, philosopher and writer. Among the most important personalities of the 18th-century Italian culture, he is considered among the fathers of the Lombard reformist Enlightenment and the most important pre-Smithian authority on cheapness and plenty.

#4774

Ōuchi Hyōei

1888 - 1980 (92 years)

was a Japanese economist. Early life and education Ōuchi was born on August 29, 1888, in what is now Minaminawaji, Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from schools in Hyogo and Kumamoto, and earned a degree from Tokyo Imperial University.

#4775

Richard Whately

Richard Whately

1787 - 1863 (76 years)

Richard Whately was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.

#4776

Karl Rathgen

1856 - 1921 (65 years)

Karl Rathgen was a German economist. He was the first Chancellor of the University of Hamburg. After studying in Strasbourg, Halle, Leipzig and Berlin, he passed the first state examination in Naumburg in 1880 in Naumburg and earned his doctorate in 1882 with a thesis on the Making of markets in Germany from the University of Straßburg.

#4777

Erik Lundberg

1907 - 1987 (80 years)

Erik Filip Lundberg was a Swedish economist, born in Stockholm. He was a professor of political economics at Stockholm University and a member of the Stockholm School of economic thought. He was president of the International Economic Association from 1968 to 1971. From 1969 to 1979, he was a member of the committee that selects the laureates for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, the Economics Prize Committee, and served as the committee's chairman from 1975 to 1979.

#4778

David Kinley

1861 - 1944 (83 years)

David Kinley was a Scotland-born economist who worked in the United States. He was head of the department of economics of the University of Illinois and later president of the University. As an economist, he was of the classical school, and his main interest was in money and banking. Administration gradually took up most of his time as his career progressed.

#4779

Tokuzō Fukuda

1874 - 1930 (56 years)

Tokuzō Fukuda was a pioneer of modern Japanese economics. Fukuda introduced economic theory and economic history for the Social Policy School and the Younger Historical school of economics. He graduated from the Tokyo Higher School of Commerce . After he was appointed lecturer of his alma mater, he studied in Germany, under Karl Bücher among others in the field, and he earned his doctorate from Munich University. His thesis dealt with the social and economic development in Japan and was supervised by Lujo Brentano.

#4780

Taras Borodajkewycz

1902 - 1984 (82 years)

Taras Borodajkewycz was a former member of the Nazi Party and, after World War II, professor of economic history at the College of World Trade in Vienna . He remained an unrepentant supporter of Nazism after the war and the pro-fascist views he allegedly expressed in his university lectures in the 1960s sparked major student demonstrations in Vienna that resulted in at least one fatality.

#4781

Paul Haensel

1878 - 1949 (71 years)

Paul Haensel was Russian and American financier, economist and scholar. Early life Paul Haensel was born in Moscow in 1878 in the family of merchant. In 1902 he graduated Moscow Practical Commercial Academy. He became a professor of Moscow University in financial law department and in 1918-1920 he worked as a dean of the law school.

#4782

Edith Abbott

1876 - 1957 (81 years)

Edith Abbott was an American economist, statistician, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott was a pioneer in the profession of social work with an educational background in economics. She was a leading activist in social reform with the ideals that humanitarianism needed to be embedded in education. Abbott was also in charge of implementing social work studies to the graduate level. Though she was met with resistance on her work with social reform at the University of Chicago, she ultimately was successful and was elected as the school's dean in 1924, making her one of the first female deans in the United States.

#4783

William Jasper Spillman

1863 - 1931 (68 years)

William Jasper Spillman is considered to be the founding father of agricultural economics. In addition, he is notable for being the only American to independently rediscover Mendel's laws of genetics.

#4784

Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher

Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher

1817 - 1894 (77 years)

Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher was a German economist from Hanover. Biography Roscher studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844 and subsequently at Leipzig in 1848.

#4785

Michael James Farrell

1926 - 1975 (49 years)

Michael James Farrell , was a Cambridge economist professionally known as M. J. Farrell. Academically he is remembered largely for the celebrated parametric measure of productive efficiency that he published in 1957.

#4786

F. A. Harper

1905 - 1973 (68 years)

Floyd Arthur "Baldy" Harper was an American academic, economist and writer who was best known for founding the Institute for Humane Studies in 1961. Personal life Baldy Harper was born and raised in Middleville, Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University. He went on to obtain a doctorate in agricultural economics from Cornell University. Economist Herbert J. Davenport was influential to Harper during his time at Cornell.

#4787

Bruce Alan Mccarl

#4788

Giuseppe Ugo Papi

1893 - 1989 (96 years)

Giuseppe Ugo Papi was an Italian economist. Papi was among the contributors of the Fascist finance magazine Lo Stato from 1930. He was the rector of the University "La Sapienza" of Rome from November 1953 to May 1966. He was also a Knight of the Civil Order of Savoy and a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

#4789

Bernhard Harms

1876 - 1939 (63 years)

Christoph Bernhard Cornelius Harms was a German economist and one of the first professors to undertake research in the field of international economics. He founded the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany's leading economic research institute, in 1914. Harms was Chair of Economics at the University of Kiel and head of the Institute until he was dismissed from office in 1933 by Nazi Party officials.

#4790

Samson Olajuwon Kokumo Olayide

1928 - 1984 (56 years)

Samson Olajuwon Kokumo Olayide , was an academic and professor of agricultural economics. Olayide was born to Josiah Ogunpoopo Olayide and Mariam Olayide . He married Theresa Folashade Olayide in 1961. And gave birth to four children [Biodun, Tokunbo, Oluwole, and Olajide]

#4791

Mykhailo Volobuiev

1903 - 1972 (69 years)

Mykhailo Symonovych Volobuiev was a Ukrainian economist of Russian origin of the 1930s. He was a researcher at the Research Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kharkiv and a major contributing thinker and advocate for the economic self-sufficiency of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

#4792

Theodore Gregory

Theodore Gregory

1890 - 1970 (80 years)

Sir Theodore Emmanuel Gugenheim Gregory was a British economist. Biography Theodore Gregory was born in London on 10 September 1890. Gregory was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington. He attended the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gregory was an Assistant and Lecturer at the LSE between 1913 and 1919. Gregory was Cassel Reader in International Trade at the LSE in 1920. Gregory was Sir E. Cassel Professor of Economics in the University of London between 1927 and 1937. He was Dean of the Faculty of Economics at London University between 1927 and 1930. Gregory was a Senator of London University between 1928 and 1930.

#4793

Wilhelm Abel

1904 - 1985 (81 years)

Wilhelm Abel was a German economist. He is particularly noted for his contributions to agricultural economics and economic history. Abel's first and most well known book was Agrarkrisen und Agrarkonjunktur published originally in 1935. It details the agrarian history of Europe from the 13th to the 20th centuries, focusing on periods of expansion and contraction corresponding to population. Other notable works include Die Wüstungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters, a study of medieval abandoned villages, Geschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft, a history of German rural life and economy, and Mass...

#4794

Adam Heydel

1893 - 1941 (48 years)

Adam Zdzisław Heydel was a Polish economist and representative of the Cracow School of Economics, a type of economic liberalism. Biography Early life and education Adam Heydel was the son of Zdzisław and Maria Heydel, his brother named Wojciech. He was a student at John III Sobieski High School and later studied in Moscow and Kyiv. In 1922 he studied law at the Jagiellonian University, where he got his doctorate. In the years 1921–1922 he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1925 he got a habilitation in the field of political economy. Two years later he became a lecturer of economi...

#4795

David Davidson

1854 - 1942 (88 years)

David Davidson was a Swedish economist. He was professor of economics and taxation law at Uppsala University from 1890 to 1919. He founded and edited the journal Ekonomisk Tidskrift . Via the journal, Davidson has been credited with switching Swedish economic analysis from one that followed the German Historicist approach to one in which Anglo-American style economic theory played a more dominant role.

#4796

Albert Gallatin

Albert Gallatin

1761 - 1849 (88 years)

Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was a Genevan–American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist. Often described as "America's Swiss Founding Father", he was a leading figure in the early years of the United States, helping shape the new republic's financial system and foreign policy. Gallatin was a prominent member of the Democratic-Republican Party, represented Pennsylvania in both chambers of Congress, and held several influential roles across four presidencies, most notably as the longest serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He is also known for his contributions to academia, nam...

#4797

Eugen Schmalenbach

1873 - 1955 (82 years)

Eugen Schmalenbach was a German academic and economist. He was born in Halver, and attended the Leipzig College of Commerce starting in 1898. That college later became part of Leipzig University, only to emerge again as the Handelshochschule Leipzig.

#4798

Robert Lee Hale

1884 - 1969 (85 years)

Robert Lee Hale was an American lawyer and economist. He earned an economics degree at Harvard University, and then worked at Columbia Law School. He is known as a legal realist, and his work focused particularly on the distributive impact of legal rules.

#4799

Harald Ludvig Westergaard

Harald Ludvig Westergaard

1853 - 1936 (83 years)

Harald Ludvig Westergaard was a Danish statistician and economist known for his work in demography and the history of statistics. Harald Westergaard was born in Copenhagen and apart from a period studying in England and Germany in 1877-78 he lived there all his life. His subject at the University of Copenhagen was mathematics but he became interested in economics and, while he was in England, he seems to have met William Stanley Jevons. In the preface to the second edition of the Theory of Political Economy Jevons refers to Westergaard's mathematical suggestions. However, after this spectac...

#4800

E. Wight Bakke

1903 - 1971 (68 years)

Edward Wight Bakke was an American sociology and economics professor at Yale University who achieved prominence in the field of industrial relations. He was a Sterling Professor, Yale's highest level of academic rank, and served as director of the Yale Labor and Management Center from its founding in 1945 until its dissolution in the late 1950s. The author, co-author, or co-editor of thirteen books, Bakke made major contributions to the study of unemployment and organizational theory.

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