“Mordecai Ezekiel”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Education

Graduated in 1918 from the Maryland Agricultural College with a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture.

Graduated in 1923 from the University of Minnesota with a Master of Science degree.

Graduated in 1926 from the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government with a PhD in economics.

Traveled abroad as a Guggenheim Fellow from 1930 to 1931.^[4]

Career

He is credited with formulating the details of what was to become the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, and helped prepare a draft of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. After the 1932 presidential election, he also met with President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, Rexford Tugwell, M. L. Wilson, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., to discuss the farm policy of the new administration.

1930–1933 – Assistant Chief Economist for the Federal Farm Board

1933–1944 – Economic Advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture

1943 – Helped plan the UN Conference on Food and Agriculture held in Hot Springs, Virginia^[5]

1944–1947 – Economic Advisor in the Bureau of Agriculture Economics

1944 – member of the UN Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture
1945 – served as a member of two of the FAO's first field missions to Greece and Poland

1947–1962 – at FAO: Economist in charge of the Economic Analysis Branch, Deputy Director of the Economics Division, Head of the Economics Department, Assistant Director General in charge of the Economics Department, and Special Assistant to the Director General

1962–1967 – Chief of the UN Division of the United States Agency for International Development

He and G.C. Haas described the pork cycle.

Personal life

Born in Richmond, Virginia, he was the son of Jacob and Rachel Brill Ezekiel (who had been a secretary to the suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt). He had two brothers, Walter Naphtali Ezekiel, a plant pathologist, and Raphael Ezekiel, a graduate of West Point, and one sister, Bertha Brill Ezekiel (Topkis).

Ezekiel married Lucille Finsterwald and they had three children—David, Jonathan, and Margot. He was also the uncle of the Hebrew poet Yosef Yehezkel. A scholarship in his name was endowed at the University of Maryland in 1974.^[3]

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References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Papers of Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel|url=http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/findbrow.cgi?collection=Ezekiel,+Mordecai|website=FDR Presidential Library|accessdate=5 March 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Papers of Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel | url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/findingaids/findingaid_ezekiel.pdf|accessdate=5 March 2015}}
3. ^¹{{cite web |title=Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel Memorial Fund|url=https://advancement.umd.edu/celebration/showScholarship.php?main_id=600|website=University of Maryland |accessdate= 5 March 2015}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Mordecai Ezekiel|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/4329-mordecai-ezekiel|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|accessdate=5 March 2015}}
5. ^{{Cite book|title = FAO: Its Origins, Formation and Evolution, 1945–1981|last = Phillips |first = Ralph W.| publisher = UN Food and Agriculture Organization |year = 1981 |isbn = |location = Rome|pages = |chapter = The Founding of FAO |chapter-url = http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/p4228e/P4228E04.htm}}
6. ^{{cite journal|author1=David Jennings|title=Jobs for All, through Industrial Expansion by Mordecai Ezekiel|journal=Science & Society|date=Winter 1940|volume=4|issue=1|pages=93–96|jstor=40399306}}