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词条 Edward Fulton Denison
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  1. Selected works

  2. References

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}}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)

References

1. ^{{citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/24/us/e-f-denison-economist-76-devised-gnp.html|title=E. F. Denison, Economist, 76; Devised G.N.P.|journal=New York Times|date=October 24, 1992|first=Bruce|last=Lambert}}.
2. ^{{citation|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1031437.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105064916/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1031437.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=November 5, 2012|title=Brookings Institution Economist Edward F. Denison Dies at 77|journal=Washington Post|date=October 24, 1992}}.
3. ^{{citation|url=http://www.roiw.org/1993/117.pdf|title=In Memoriam: Edward F. Denison, 1915–1992|journal=Review of Income and Wealth|volume=39|issue=1|year=1993|pages=117–119|first=John W.|last=Kendrick|authorlink=John Whitefield Kendrick|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4991.1993.tb00442.x}}.
4. ^View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-08-20.
5. ^Distinguished fellows, American Economic Association, retrieved 2010-12-30.
6. ^{{cite news |work=New York Times |accessdate=2011-06-05 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/24/us/e-f-denison-economist-76-devised-gnp.html |title=E. F. Denison, Economist, 76; Devised G.N.P. |date=October 24, 1992 |first=Bruce |last=Lambert}}
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10 : 1915 births|1992 deaths|Oberlin College alumni|Brown University alumni|20th-century American economists|People from Omaha, Nebraska|Fellows of the American Statistical Association|Mathematicians from Nebraska|Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association|Economists from Nebraska

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