Alfred E. Osborne Jr is an American economist who is senior associate dean, Professor of Global Economics, Management and Entrepreneurship, and founder and faculty director of The Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at

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. He is also chair of the Board of Trustees of Fidelity Charitable, and is a former president of the National Economic Association.

Education and early life

Osborne was raised in the

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, and came to the US to study electrical engineering at

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. After working briefly as an engineer, he returned to Stanford to study economics and business, earning an MA in economics, and MBA in finance, and a PhD in Business Economics in 1974.

Career

Osborne began teaching at UCLA Anderson School of Management as an assistant professor of economics, and was quickly awarded tenure. He spent brief periods of time as an economic fellow at the Brookings Institution and at the

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, but has otherwise spent his professional career at Anderson. He was appointed interim dean of Anderson in 2018.

Selected works

* Bradford, William D., and Alfred E. Osborne. "The entrepreneurship decision and black economic development." The American Economic Review 66, no. 2 (1976): 316–319. * Osborne Jr, Alfred E. "Rule 144 Volume Limitations and the Sale of Restricted Stock in the Over-The-Counter Market." The Journal of Finance 37, no. 2 (1982): 505–517. * Osborne, Alfred E. "On the Economic Cost to Panama of Negotiating a Peaceful Solution to the Panama Canal Question." Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 19, no. 4 (1977): 509–521. * Bates, Timothy, and Alfred E. Osborne JR. "The perverse effects of SBA loans to minority wholesalers." Urban Affairs Quarterly 15, no. 1 (1979): 87–97. * Osborne Jr, Alfred E. "The welfare effect of black capitalists on the black community." The Review of Black Political Economy 6, no. 4 (1976): 477–484.

References

American economists African-American economists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) UCLA Anderson School of Management faculty Stanford University alumni 21st-century African-American people Presidents of the National Economic Association {{US-economist-stub