Английская Википедия:Edward Fulton Denison

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Шаблон:Infobox scientist Edward Fulton Denison (December 18, 1915, Omaha – October 23, 1992, Washington D.C.) was an American economist.[1][2][3] He was a pioneer in the measurement of the United States gross national product[1] and one of the founders of growth accounting.[3]

Denison earned a bachelor's degree in economics in Oberlin College in 1936, a master's degree in Brown University in 1938, and a doctorate from Brown in 1941.[1] In 1948, he became acting chief of the National Income Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.[3] The next year, Edward also acted as Assistant Director and Chief Economist of the Office of Business Economics.[1][3] In 1956 he left OBE to work for the Committee for Economic Development.[3] From 1963, he served as a senior member of the Brookings Institution on economic research.[1][3]

In 1966 Denison was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4] He became a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association in 1981.[5]

He married Elsie Lightbown. His daughter, Janet Howell has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992.[6]

Selected works

  • Trends in American economic growth, 1929-1982 (1962), published on The Journal of Business
  • The Residual Factor and Economic Growth (Paris, 1962)
  • The Sources of Economic Growth in the United States & the Alternatives Before us (New York City, 1962), one that describes his theory mostly
  • Why growth rates differ; postwar experience in nine western countries (Washington D. C., 1967)
  • Accounting for United States economic growth, 1929-1969 (Washington D. C., 1974)
  • Accounting for slower economic growth : the United States in the 1970s (Washington D. C., 1979)

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