Edwin Kuh

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Edwin Kuh
Born (1925-04-13)April 13, 1925
Chicago, Illinois
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Institution MIT Sloan School of Management
Field Economics
Econometrics
Alma mater Harvard University
Williams College
Influences James Duesenberry
John Lintner
Guy Orcutt
Influenced Phoebus Dhrymes

Edwin Kuh (April 13, 1925 – June 9, 1986) was an American economist. He was a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management for over 30 years and was widely known for his work with econometric models to forecast production, savings, investment, business cycle, unemployment and related functions.[1] John Kenneth Galbraith called him “one of the most innovative economists of his generation.”[1]

A native of Chicago, Kuh attended Williams College and received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1955, the year after he joined the faculty of the MIT Sloan School of Management as an associate professor. His dissertation topic—business investment decisions—coincided with that of a Harvard classmate, John R. Meyer, leading them to merge both papers and publish it as The Investment Decision: An Empirical Study in 1957.[2] In 1972, Kuh headed George McGovern's economic advisory panel during his presidential campaign.[1]

Selected publications

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References

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