Abramovitz, Moses
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Name (Latin)
Abramovitz, Moses
Other forms of name
Abramovitz, Moses, 1912-
Date of birth
1912
Date of death
2000-12-01
Occupation
College teachers
Economists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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- Wikipedia, March 2, 2017(Moses Abramovitz; Moses Abramovitz (January 1, 1912--December 1, 2000) was a 20th-century American economist and professor; during his career, he made many contributions to the study of macroeconomic fluctuations and economic growth over time; born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he completed his bachelor's degree in economics summa cum laude at Harvard University; he earned his Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1939; he started his career as a lecturer at Harvard in the mid-1930s; after finishing his doctorate at Columbia, he joined the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York, where he began his investigation of inventory investment cycles; during World War II, he served on the War Production Board and in the Office of Strategic Services as chief of the European industry and trade section; in 1945 and 1946, he was an economic adviser to the United States representative on the Allied Reparations Commission; he was also a founding faculty member of the Department of Economics at Stanford University, which he joined in the fall of 1948; he taught there for almost 30 years; from 1962 to 1963, he was the adviser to the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris; he then served as the organization chair from 1963 to 1965 and from 1971 to 1974; he died at Stanford Hospital in California on December 1, 2000)
- His Thinking about growth and other essays on economic growth and welfare, 1989:CIP t.p. (Moses Abramovitz, Stanford University)
- The New York times, Dec. 16, 2000:obituaries (Moses Abramovitz; economist; former pres., American Economic Association; b. 1912 in Brooklyn; d. Dec. 1, 2000 at Stanford Univ. Hospital at age 88)
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Moses Abramovitz (January 1, 1912 – December 1, 2000) was an American economist and professor. During his career, he made many contributions to the study of macroeconomic fluctuations and economic growth over time.
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