Edgar Russell Fiedler (April 21, 1929 – March 15, 2003)EDGAR FIEDLER (1929-2003), Social Security Death Index
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Biography

Fiedler was born in

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, and later lived in Scarsdale, New York, and

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. He was a 1951 graduate of the

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. He received an M.B.A. at the

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in 1956, and a Ph.D. in economics from

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in 1970. He served as

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from 1971 to 1975 during the presidencies of

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and

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. He authored ''The Roots of Stagflation''. He served as Vice President, economic counselor, senior fellow and adviser of

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, a business research organization in Manhattan, which he first joined in 1975. He edited its monthly publication, ''Economic Times''. In the 1980s he was an adjunct professor of economics at the

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. He authored ''The Roots of Stagflation'' (1984). He wrote the following wry rules for economic forecasters: “If you must forecast, forecast often. And if you’re ever right, never let ’em forget it.”Joe Keohane (January 9, 2011)
"That guy who called the big one? Don’t listen to him."
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''.

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*Saxon, Wolfgang.
Edgar Russell Fiedler, 73, Economist and Treasury Aide.
''The New York Times''. A27. March 19, 2003. 2003 deaths 1929 births 20th-century American economists Columbia Business School faculty New York University alumni People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina People from Milwaukee People from Scarsdale, New York Ross School of Business alumni United States Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury University of Michigan alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni {{US-gov-bio-stub