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#4801

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.

#4802

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.

#4803

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.

#4804

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.

#4805

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.

#4806

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 .

#4807

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.

#4808

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.

#4809

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.

#4810

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.

#4811

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.

#4812

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.

#4813

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...

#4814

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.

#4815

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.

#4816

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.

#4817

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.

#4818

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.

#4819

Terence C. Mills

#4820

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.

#4821

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 .

#4822

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.

#4823

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 .

#4824

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...

#4825

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".

#4826

Frederick Macaulay

1882 - 1970 (88 years)

Frederick Robertson Macaulay was a Canadian economist of the Institutionalist School. He is known for introducing the concept of bond duration. Macaulay's contributions also include a mammoth empirical study of the time series behavior of interest rates published in 1938 and a study of short selling on the New York Stock Exchange . The term "Macaulay duration" is named after him.

#4827

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.

#4828

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.

#4829

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.

#4830

Vera Anstey

1889 - 1976 (87 years)

Vera Anstey was a British economist and noted expert on the economy of India. Anstey is most closely associated with the London School of Economics where she served as a lecturer and chaired the admissions committee, and with the wider University of London where she served as dean of the faculty of economics.

#4831

Alexander Gerschenkron

1904 - 1978 (74 years)

Alexander Gerschenkron was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University, trained in the Austrian School of economics. Born into a Jewish family in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine, Gerschenkron fled the country during the Russian Civil War in 1920 to Austria, where he attended the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1928. After the Anschluss in 1938, he emigrated to the United States.

#4832

Charles Tiebout

1924 - 1968 (44 years)

Charles Mills Tiebout was an economist and geographer most known for his development of the Tiebout model, which suggested that there were actually non-political solutions to the free rider problem in local governance. He earned recognition in the area of local government and fiscal federalism with his widely cited paper “A pure theory of local expenditures”. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1950, and received a PhD in economics in University of Michigan in 1957. He was Professor of Economics and Geography at the University of Washington. He died suddenly on January 16, 1968, at age 4...

#4833

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.

#4834

Jacob Marschak

1898 - 1977 (79 years)

Jacob Marschak was an American economist. Life Born in a Jewish family of Kyiv, Jacob Marschak was the son of a jeweler. During his studies he joined the social democratic Menshevik Party, becoming a member of the Menshevik International Caucus. In 1918 he was the labor minister in the Terek Soviet Republic. In 1919 he emigrated to Germany, where he studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg.

#4835

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.

#4836

Allen Schick

Allen Schick is a governance fellow of the Brookings Institution and also a professor of political science at the Maryland School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park. He is known as an authority on budget theory and the federal budget process, in particular. His book, Congress and Money: Budgeting, Spending, and Taxing, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize in 1982.

#4837

Oskar Morgenstern

1902 - 1977 (75 years)

Oskar Morgenstern was a German-born economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory as applied to the social sciences and strategic decision-making .

#4838

Abba P. Lerner

1903 - 1982 (79 years)

Abraham "Abba" Ptachya Lerner was a Russian-born American-British economist. Biography Born in Novoselytsia, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, Lerner grew up in a Jewish family, which emigrated to Great Britain when Lerner was three years old. Lerner grew up in London's East End and from age 16 worked as a machinist, a teacher in Hebrew schools, and as an entrepreneur. In 1929, Lerner entered the London School of Economics, where he studied under Friedrich Hayek. A six-month stay at Cambridge in 1934–1935 brought him into contact with John Maynard Keynes. In 1937, Lerner emigrated to the United States.

#4839

Harry Gordon Johnson

Harry Gordon Johnson

1923 - 1977 (54 years)

Harry Gordon Johnson, was a Canadian economist who studied topics such as international trade and international finance. Nobel laureate James Tobin said about him: "For the economics profession throughout the world, the third quarter of this century was an Age of Johnson. ... It was his impact on his own profession ... that justifies calling the era his Age."

#4840

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.

#4841

Simon Kuznets

1901 - 1985 (84 years)

Simon Smith Kuznets was an American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development."

#4842

Paul Rosenstein-Rodan

1902 - 1985 (83 years)

Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan was an economist of Jewish origin born in Kraków, who was trained in the Austrian tradition under in Vienna. His early contributions to economics were in pure economic theory – on marginal utility, complementarity, hierarchical structures of wants and the pervasive Austrian School issue of time.

#4843

Arthur Melvin Okun

Arthur Melvin Okun

1928 - 1980 (52 years)

Arthur Melvin "Art" Okun was an American economist. He served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers between 1968 and 1969. Before serving on the C.E.A., he was a professor at Yale University and, afterwards, was a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. In 1968 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#4844

Stephen Hymer

1934 - 1974 (40 years)

Stephen Herbert Hymer was a Canadian economist. His research focused on the activities of multinational firms, which was the subject of his PhD dissertation The International Operations of National Firms: A Study of Direct Foreign Investment, presented in 1960, but published posthumously in 1976, by the Department of Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Charles P. Kindleberger, his thesis supervisor, submitted it for publication, as mentioned by him on the introduction of Hymer's thesis dissertation.

#4845

Frank Dunstone Graham

1890 - 1949 (59 years)

Frank Dunstone Graham was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Princeton University from 1921 to 1945. Graham died in 1949 from a fall at Palmer Stadium during a Princeton Tigers football game.

#4846

Frederick C. Mills

1892 - 1964 (72 years)

Frederick Cecil Mills was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University in Manhattan from 1919 to 1959. An expert on business cycles, he was also a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1925 to 1953. In 1940, he served as president of the American Economic Association. Mills was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1926.

#4847

Ludwig Lachmann

1906 - 1990 (84 years)

Ludwig Maurits Lachmann was a German economist, economic theorist and important contributor to the Austrian School of Economics. Lachmann, Israel Kirzner, and Murray Rothbard were the three primary catalysts of the Austrian 'revival', beginning in 1974. He wrote on economic theory, history, and methodology, as well as on the application of Hermeneutics to economic thought, in order to interpret economic phenomena.

#4848

Howard S. Ellis

1898 - 1992 (94 years)

Howard Sylvester Ellis was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1938 to 1965. In 1949, he served as president of the American Economic Association.

#4849

Mark Skidmore

1900 - Present (126 years)

Mark Skidmore is an American economist. He is Professor of Economics and Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, where he holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy. Skidmore completed his undergraduate education at the University of Washington and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado in 1994 for his dissertation "State Responses to Fiscal Stress".

#4850

Norman E. Himes

1899 - 1949 (50 years)

Norman Edwin Himes was an American sociologist and economist and Professor at Colgate University, known for his work on the medical history of contraception. Himes obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1932. After graduation, he started his academic career at Colgate University in 1932. In World War II he served at the Surgeon General of the United States. His research interests were in the field of "population problems, history of contraception and the birth control movement, and marriage and family relations."

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