Sidney Graham Winter (born 1935, in

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) is an American

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and professor emeritus of

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at the Wharton School,

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. He is recognized as a leading figure in the revival of

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. In 1982, he co-published with Richard R. Nelson ''An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change'', a book which has since been cited nearly 25,000 times. Winter was Chief Economist of the US General Accounting Office (1989–1993). He won the Viipuri Prize for Strategic Management in 2008. Winter was the second husband and widower of economist Alice Mitchell Rivlin.

Works

*''An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change'', 1982, *''Patents and Welfare in an Evolutionary Model.'', 1993 *Founding Co-editor of ''

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'' (with R. H. Day)

External links

Faculty profile
at

web site
Charles Cooper Memorial Lecture
at

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web site.
Sidney G. Winter Papers
are housed at the university of Iowa special collections Innovation economists American economists Fellows of the Econometric Society 1935 births Living people Writers from Iowa City, Iowa Economists from Iowa American academic journal editors 20th-century American male writers {{US-economist-stub