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List Of Jewish Economists
This list of Jewish economists includes economists who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent. A–G *Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist *George Akerlof, Nobel Prize (2001) *Joshua Angrist, Nobel Prize (2021) *Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize (1972) *Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize (2005) *Peter Thomas Bauer, Lord Bauer, economist *Gary Becker, Nobel Prize (1992) *Yoram Ben-Porat (died 1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Ben Bernanke, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve *Jared Bernstein *Mario Blejer, Argentine economist and former President of the Central Bank of Argentina in 2002. *Walter Block, Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair in Economics at Loyola University New Orleans, Loyola University in New Orleans *Arthur Burns, economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve *Otto Eckstein, a key developer of the idea of core inflation *Richard Ehrenberg, economist *Martin Feldstein, Harvard Professor; Chair of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Bernanke
Ben Shalom Bernanke ( ; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the 2008 financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year, ''Time'' Person of the Year. Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the Princeton University Department of Economics, Department of Economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave. Bernanke was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Douglas Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, "for research on banks and financial crises", more specifically for his analysis of the Great Depression. From August 5, 2002, until June 21, 2005, he was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Ben-Porat
Yoram Ben-Porat (also, Ben-Porath; ; born 1937; died October 18, 1992) was an Israeli academic and economist. He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1990 until his death in 1992 in an automobile accident at the age of 55. Biography Ben-Porath was born in Ramat Gan, Israel. He was an economist. Ben-Porath specialized in the problems of the Israeli economy. Ben-Porath obtained both a bachelor's degree and a master's degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then obtained a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967, studying with Simon Kuznets. He became a member of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Economics faculty in 1967, where he was the William Haber Professor of Economics. In 1987, Ben-Porath became Rector of the university. Ben-Porath was the president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1990 to 1992, following Amnon Pazy and succeeded by Hanoch Gutfreund. He was also President of the Israel Economic Association, Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Feldstein
Martin Stuart Feldstein ( ; November 25, 1939 – June 11, 2019) was an American economist. He was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as president and chief executive officer of the bureau from 1978 to 2008 (with the exception of 1982 to 1984). From 1982 to 1984, Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan (where his deficit hawk views clashed with the Reagan administration's large military expenditure policies). Feldstein was also a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body the Group of Thirty from 2003. Early life and education Feldstein was born in New York City to a Jewish family and graduated from South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York. He completed his undergraduate education at Harvard University ( BA, ''summa cum laude'', 1961), where he was affiliate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ehrenberg ...
Richard Ehrenberg (5 February 1857 – 17 December 1921) was a German economist. He taught at Rostock University from 1899 to 1921. Literary works * ''Hamburg und Antwerpen seit 300 Jahren'', 1889 * ''Hamburg und England im Zeitalter der Königin Elisabeth'', 1896 * ''Das Zeitalter der Fugger'', 2 Vols., 1896, -- an English translation is also available: Richard Ehrenberg, ''Capital & Finance in the Age of the Renaissance: A Study of the Fuggers and Their Connections'', 1928, reprinted 1985 * ''Das Familie in ihrer Bedeutung für das Volksleben'', 1916 External links Gründung des Thünen-Archivs(PDF) 1857 births 1921 deaths German economists {{Germany-academic-bio-stub Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Core Inflation
Core inflation is a type of inflation measure which seeks to represent the underlying long-run trend of aggregate price levels in the economy. This is achieved by removing certain items exhibiting short-term significant price fluctuations within the overall consumer basket (as typically measured by the headline Consumer Price Index or other relevant price indices). Core inflation is thus intended to be an indicator and predictor of underlying long-term inflation. The most common approach in accomplishing this is by excluding items frequently subject to volatile price movements, like food and energy. Every country maintains its own calculation of its official core inflation figure and usually reported as complementary to the overall headline inflation by most national statistical agencies. Throughout the years, econometricians have likewise devised alternative approaches in computing core inflation using more formal methodologies. History The concept of core inflation as ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Eckstein
Otto Eckstein (August 1, 1927 – March 22, 1984) was a German-American economist. He was a key developer and proponent of the theory of core inflation , which proposed that in determining accurate metrics of long run inflation, the transitory price changes of items subject to volatile pricing, such as food and energy, are to be excluded from computation. Life and career Eckstein was born in Germany in 1927 to a Jewish business family. In 1938, when he was 11 years old, he and several other family members fled the Nazi regime, first emigrating to England, and then, a year later, moving to the United States, where he made his permanent home. He held an A.B. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University and became a Harvard University economics professor, an economic consultant to President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1964 to 1966. In 1969, he and Donald Marron co-founded Data Resources Inc., the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Burns
Arthur Frank Burns (April 27, 1904 – June 26, 1987) was an American economist and diplomat who served as the 10th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978. He previously chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1956, and served as the first Counselor to the President under Richard Nixon from January to November 1969. He also taught and researched at Rutgers University, Columbia University, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. President Nixon nominated him to succeed William McChesney Martin as Chairman of the Federal Reserve and later renominated him for another term. Burns was succeeded by G. William Miller when his second term expired. After leaving the Fed, President Ronald Reagan chose him to serve as Ambassador to West Germany in 1981, where he remained in office until 1985. Early life Burns was born in Stanislau (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Austrian Poland (Galicia), a province of the Austro-Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans is a Private university, private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit founder, Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and is a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. History Founding In the early 18th century Jesuits first arrived among the earliest settlers in New Orleans and Louisiana. Loyola University in New Orleans was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1904 as Loyola College on a section of the Foucher Plantation bought by the Jesuits in 1886. A young Jesuit, Fr. Albert Biever, was given a Nickel (United States coin), nickel for Tram, street car fare and told by his Jesuit superiors to travel Uptown New Orleans, Uptown on the Streetcars in New Orleans#St. Charles Avenue Line, St. Charles Streetcar and found a university. As with many Jesuit schools, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Block
Walter Edward Block (born August 21, 1941) is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He was the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and a former senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Personal life Walter Block was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents Abraham Block, a certified public accountant, and Ruth Block, a paralegal, both of whom Block has said were liberals. He attended James Madison High School, where Bernie Sanders was on his track team. Block earned his PhD degree in economics from Columbia University and wrote his dissertation on rent control in the United States under Gary Becker. Block identifies himself as a "devout atheist". In an interview, Block stated, "In the fifties and sixties, I was just another commie living in Brooklyn." Block credits his shift to libertarianism to his having a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Bank Of Argentina
The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (, BCRA) is the central bank of Argentina, being an autarchic entity. Article 3 of the Organic Charter lists the objectives of this Institution: “The bank aims to promote, to the extent of its powers and within the framework of the policies established by the national government, monetary stability, financial stability, employment, and economic development with social equity." Establishment Established by six Acts of Congress enacted on May 28, 1935, the bank replaced Argentina's currency board, which had been in operation since 1899. Its first president was Ernesto Bosch, who served in that capacity from 1935 to 1945. The Central Bank's headquarters on San Martín Street (in the heart of Buenos Aires' financial district, known locally as the ''city''), was originally designed in 1872 by architects Henry Hunt and Hans Schroeder. Completed in 1876, the Italian Renaissance-inspired building initially housed the Mortgage Bank of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Blejer
Mario I. Blejer (born June 11, 1948) is an Argentine economist and a former president of the Central Bank of Argentina. Life and times Blejer was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1948. He enrolled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and graduated ''cum laude'' with degrees in Economics and Jewish History in 1970, as well as with a master's degree in Economics from the same institution, in 1972. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in the latter discipline at the University of Chicago (1975), and joined the Boston University Department of Economics as an assistant professor, where he remained until 1980. Advisor He joined the International Monetary Fund as an adviser on monetary, exchange rate, and fiscal policy in 1980, and briefly taught at George Washington University and the New York University Graduate School of Business. He lectured at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies between 1986 and 1991, and was appointed the World Bank's Senior European and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Telegraph Agency
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is an international news agency and wire service that primarily covers Judaism- and Jewish-related topics and news. Described as the "Associated Press of the Jewish media", JTA serves Jewish and non-Jewish newspapers and press around the world as a syndication partner. Founded in 1917, it is world Jewry's oldest and most widely-read wire service. History The Jewish Telegraphic Agency was founded in The Hague, Netherlands, as the first Jewish news agency and wire service, then known as the Jewish Correspondence Bureau on February 6, 1917, by 25-year old Jacob Landau. Its mandate was to collect and disseminate news affecting the Jewish communities around the world, especially from the European World War I fronts. In 1919, it moved to London, under its current name. In 1922, the JTA moved its global headquarters to New York City. By 1925, over 400 newspapers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, subscribed to the JTA. In November 1937, the Gestapo (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
