Morris, Cynthia Taft
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Name (Latin)
Morris, Cynthia Taft
Other forms of name
Taft, Cynthia H
Date of birth
1928-04-28
Date of death
2013-07-16
Place of birth
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Place of death
Washington (D.C.)
Place of residence/headquarters
Washington (D.C.)
Other associated place
Northampton (Mass.)
London (England)
New Haven (Conn.)
Field of activity
Economics
Associate group
American University (Washington, D.C.)
United States. Agency for International Development
Smith College
Smith College (1983 - 1983)
London School of Economics and Political Science
Yale University
Occupation
Economists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Washington post WWW site, Aug. 12, 2013(Cynthia Taft Morris; b. Cynthia Herron Taft in Cincinnati; d. July 16 [2013] at her home in Washington, at 85; former economics professor at American University and consultant with the U.S. Agency for International Development; joined the AU faculty in 1964 and served there until 1983, when she bcame an economics professor at Smith College in Massachusetts; moved back to Washington after her retirement from Smith in 1998 and held the title of distinguished economist in residence at AU; master's in labor economics, London Sch. of Economics; doctorate in economics, Yale; consultant to USAID until 1969, the last five years while also teaching at AU)
- Her Comparative patterns of economic development, 1850-1914, c1988:CIP t.p. (Cynthia Taft Morris) data sheet (b. 1928)
- LC data base, 4/24/87(hdg.: Morris, Cynthia Taft; usage: Cynthia H. Taft; Cynthia Taft Morris)
Wikipedia description:
Cynthia Taft Morris (April 28, 1928 – July 16, 2013) was an American development economist. As a teenager, she and her sister Rosalyn contracted polio, leading to Rosalyn's death at the age of eleven. She was a graduate from Vassar College, London School of Economics and Yale. And she worked on the Marshall Plan, at the World Bank and most notably with Irma Adelman. Cynthia Taft Morris was a granddaughter of former President William Howard Taft.
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