Harold Hotelling (1895-1973) Harold Hotelling was an American economist. Professor of Economics at Columbia University, and Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of North Carolina. Hotelling established the case for marginal cost-pricing in public utilities in his article The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates published […]

Harry Gordon Johnson 1923-1977 Harry Gordon Johnson was a Canadian economist and influential academic. Had the unusual distinction of being Professor of Economics at two major universities simultaneously, since from 1966 to 1974 he taught at both the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago. A prolific writer of books and articles. Johnson […]

Leonid Kantorovich (1912-1986) Leonid Kantorovich was an Russian mathematician and economist. As a young professor of mathematics he developed what is now known as linear programming. In 1930 he published Mathematical Methods for the Organization and Planning of Production, the first paper in this field. Kantorovich’s early applications of this theory to such basic economic […]

Nickolai D. Kondratieff (1892 – 1938) Nikolai Dmyitriyevich Kondratieff (1892-1938) was a Russian economist. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Kondratieff was an economics professor who was called upon by the new government to create the first Soviet Five-Year-Plan. Kondratieff was thus given the opportunity to draw the economic plan for Russia he assumed upon a […]

Tjalling C. Koopmans (1910-1985) Tjalling C. Koopmans was a Dutch-born economist and econometrician who became a naturalized American in 1946. Koopman studied mathematics and physics at the University of Utrecht before gaining an economics doctorate from Leiden in 1936. In 1940 he went to Princeton University in America as a researcher. During the war, together […]

Sir Roy Forbes Harrod 1900-1978 Sir Roy Forbes Harrod was a British economist, educated at New College, Oxford. Taught at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1922 to 1952. Harrod served under Lord Charwell and in the Prime Minister’s office between 1940 and 1942. Was statistical adviser to the Admiralty between 1942 and 1945. One of his […]

A new update from Martin Armstrong is now out on the 2012 Writings page: “Is Paper Money Constitutional?”

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Ragner A. K. Frisch 1895-1973 Ragner A. K. Frisch was a Norwegian economist and Professor of Economics and Statistics at Oslo University. In 1960, Frisch shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with the Dutchman Jan Tinbengen. His most important work was the paper Propagation and Impulse Problems in which he developed the mathematical potential of J M […]

Henry George 1839-1897 Henry George was an American economist and politician. Famous for his campaign for a single tax on the land values derived from rent. He believed that rents were received by landlords at the expense of workers and business interests, and that this caused poverty and reduced the level of investment in the […]