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#4901

Max Sering

1857 - 1939 (82 years)

Max Sering was a German economist. Sering was considered the most famous German agricultural economist of his time; his students briefly included Otto von Habsburg. Sering studied in both Strasbourg and Leipzig, before entering the civil service in Alsace in 1879. In 1883 he was sent by the Prussian government to North America to study agricultural competition.

#4902

Paul Magnus Gross

1895 - 1986 (91 years)

Paul Magnus Gross, Sr. was an American chemist and educator at Duke University. Early life Gross was born on September 15, 1895. Education Gross received a B.S. degree from City College of New York in 1916, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1917 and 1919.

#4903

Thomas Cooper

1759 - 1839 (80 years)

Thomas Cooper was an Anglo-American economist, college president and political philosopher. Cooper was described by Thomas Jefferson as "one of the ablest men in America" and by John Adams as "a learned ingenious scientific and talented madcap." Dumas Malone stated that "modern scientific progress would have been impossible without the freedom of the mind which he championed throughout life." His ideas were taken very seriously in his own time: there were substantial reviews of his writings, and some late eighteenth-century critics of materialism directed their arguments against Cooper, rath...

#4904

Sydney James Butlin

1910 - 1977 (67 years)

Sydney James Christopher Lyon Butlin was an Australian economist and historian. He was born on 20 October 1910 in Eastwood, a suburb of Sydney, the second of six children of Australian-born parents, Thomas Lyon Butlin, an orchard farmer and railway porter and Sara Mary, née Chantler. He is the brother of notable economic historian, Noel George Butlin .

#4905

Itrat Husain Zuberi

1910 - 1964 (54 years)

Itrat Husain Zuberi was a noted educationist of Pakistan. He started his educational career as a teacher in East Pakistan. He served in various capacities such as professor, Principal, Vice Chancellor, Education Advisor and Member, Executive Board of UNESCO till his retirement. Itrat was the first Indian to have the distinction of being elected a Carnegie Fellow at Oxford.

#4906

Theodore O. Yntema

1900 - 1985 (85 years)

Theodore Otte Yntema was an American economist specializing in the field of quantitative analysis in finance. Education Yntema graduated summa cum laude in 1921 from Hope College as valedictorian. in 1922, he received his master's degree from the University of Illinois. Yntema received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1929.

#4907

Friedrich Lütge

1901 - 1968 (67 years)

Friedrich Lütge was a German economist, social historian and economic historian. He taught at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management and at the University of Leipzig between 1940 and 1947, then moving on to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where he taught till a few months before he died. Through his research work between 1949 and 1968 he exercised a great influence on the understanding of economic history in West Germany. Together with Wilhelm Abel and Günther Franz he contributed decisively to research into agrarian history in Germany. He was instrumental in ensuring that soci...

#4908

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.

#4909

Redvers Opie

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Redvers Opie was a British economist. On the recommendation of John Maynard Keynes, he became the United Kingdom Treasury representative in Washington, D.C., as Counsellor and economic adviser at the British Embassy, 1939–46, and was one of the five members of the UK delegation to the Bretton Woods Conference, which gave birth to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

#4910

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.

#4911

Athanasios Asimakopulos

1930 - 1990 (60 years)

Athanasios "Tom" Asimakopulos was a Canadian economist, who was the "William Dow Professor of Political Economy" in the Department of Economics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His monograph, Keynes's General Theory and Accumulation, reviews important areas of Keynes's General Theory and the theories of accumulation of two of his most distinguished followers, Roy Harrod and Joan Robinson.

#4912

Sumner Slichter

1892 - 1959 (67 years)

Sumner Huber Slichter was an American economist and the first Lamont University Professor at Harvard University. Slichter was considered by many to be the pre-eminent labor economist of the 1940s and 1950s. Slichter was adamantly opposed to the labor movement, and called repeatedly for legislation against unionization. Slichter was also a critic of the New Deal."

#4913

Karl Brunner

1916 - 1989 (73 years)

Karl Brunner was a Swiss economist. Biography Karl Brunner was born in Zürich on 16 February 1916. He studied economics at the University of Zürich from 1934 to 1937, and at the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1938, before returning to the University of Zürich, where he received a doctorate in 1943. He served briefly as an economist at the Swiss National Bank, and as a lecturer and research assistant at the University of St. Gallen. He left Switzerland in 1949 to take up a position as a visiting fellow at the Cowles Commission, then based at the University of Chicago. After a two-year...

#4914

Ronald Shephard

1912 - 1982 (70 years)

Ronald William Shephard was Professor of Engineering Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for two results in economics, now known as Shephard's lemma and the Shephard duality theorem. Shephard proved these results in his book Theory of Cost and Production Functions , which Dale W. Jorgenson, in the preface of a reprint, called "the most original contribution to economic theory of all time."

#4915

Ronald L. Meek

1917 - 1978 (61 years)

Ronald Lindley Meek was a Marxian economist and social scientist known especially for his scholarly studies of classical political economy and the labour theory of value. During the 1960s and 1970s, his writings had a strong influence on the Western academic discussion about Marx's economic theory.

#4916

Mordecai Ezekiel

1899 - 1974 (75 years)

Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel was an American agrarian economist who worked for the United States government and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization . He was a "New Deal economic advisor" who shaped much of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt's agricultural policy.

#4917

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 .

#4918

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.

#4919

Philip Sargant Florence

1890 - 1982 (92 years)

Philip Sargant Florence was an American economist who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom. Life Born in Nutley, New Jersey in the United States, he was the son of Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician, and Mary Sargant Florence, a British painter. His sister was Alix Strachey. He was educated at Windlesham House School, Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before studying for his PhD at Columbia University in New York City. In 1917 he married the writer and birth control advocate Lella Faye Secor.

#4920

Karl August Wittfogel

Karl August Wittfogel

1896 - 1988 (92 years)

Karl August Wittfogel was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. He was originally a Marxist and an active member of the Communist Party of Germany, but after the Second World War, he was an equally fierce anticommunist.

#4921

Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter

1883 - 1950 (67 years)

Joseph Alois Schumpeter was an Austrian political economist. He served briefly as Finance Minister of Austria in 1919. In 1932, he emigrated to the United States to become a professor at Harvard University, where he remained until the end of his career, and in 1939 obtained American citizenship.

#4922

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."

#4923

Tjalling Koopmans

Tjalling Koopmans

1910 - 1985 (75 years)

Tjalling Charles Koopmans was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources. Koopmans showed that on the basis of certain efficiency criteria, it is possible to make important deductions concerning optimum price systems.

#4924

Nancy Rose

Nancy Rose is an American economist, currently the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2014 to 2017, Rose served as the deputy assistant attorney general for economic analysis in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. Her research in the fields of industrial organization and the economics of regulation has covered a variety of industries, including airlines, electric utilities, and trucking.

#4925

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 .

#4926

Ragnar Frisch

1895 - 1973 (78 years)

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was an influential Norwegian economist known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century. He coined the term econometrics in 1926 for utilising statistical methods to describe economic systems, as well as the terms microeconomics and macroeconomics in 1933, for describing individual and aggregate economic systems, respectively. He was the first to develop a statistically informed model of business cycles in 1933. Later work on the model together with Jan Tinbergen wo...

#4927

Jacob Viner

1892 - 1970 (78 years)

Jacob Viner was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago school of economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading figures of the Chicago faculty. Paul Samuelson named Viner as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860. He was an important figure in the field of political economy.

#4928

Jeff Borland

Jeff Borland is an Australian academic and labour economist. He is currently the Truby Williams Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. He received the 2020 Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia.

#4929

Robert A. Brady

1901 - 1963 (62 years)

Robert Alexander Brady was an American economist who analyzed the dynamics of technological change and the structure of business enterprise. Brady developed a potent analysis of fascism and other emerging authoritarian economic and cultural practices. His essential work is "about power and the organization of power around the logic of technology as operated under capitalism", yielding insights and understanding of modern society's careening path between enhancing or destroying "life and culture".

#4930

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.

#4931

Frederick V. Waugh

1898 - 1974 (76 years)

Frederick Vail Waugh was an American agricultural economist known for his work relating supply, demand, quality, and marketing in the prices of agricultural products, for his understanding of who benefits from volatility in agricultural pricing, and for his advocacy of food stamp and food distribution policies for the poor. He worked for the United States Department of Agriculture from the 1920s to the 1970s.

#4932

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.

#4933

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.

#4934

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.

#4935

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.

#4936

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.

#4937

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.

#4938

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".

#4939

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."

#4940

Harold G. Moulton

1883 - 1965 (82 years)

Harold Glenn Moulton was an American economist and longtime fellow at the Brookings Institution. He authored several dozen books and papers exploring timely social and economic topics, including "Waterways versus Railways" , "The Principles of Money and Banking" , "Germany's Capacity to Pay" , "The Reparation Question" , "The Formation of Capital" , "Control of Germany and Japan" , and "Can Inflation be Controlled?" . Before joining Brookings Moulton was on the faculty of the economics department of the University of Chicago, where he served also as debate team coach.

#4941

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.

#4942

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.

#4943

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.

#4944

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.

#4945

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.

#4946

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.

#4947

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.

#4948

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.

#4949

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.

#4950

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.

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