Edwin Kuh (April 13, 1925 – June 9, 1986) was an American
economist
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. He was a faculty member at the
MIT Sloan School of Management
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for over 30 years, and was widely known for his work with
econometric
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models to forecast production, savings, investment, business cycle, unemployment, and related functions.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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called him "one of the most innovative economists of his generation."
A native of
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, Kuh attended
Williams College
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and received his Ph.D. degree from
Harvard University
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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
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Career
Born in Pasco, Meyer atte ...
, leading them to merge both papers and publish it as ''The Investment Decision: An Empirical Study'' in 1957.
In 1972, Kuh headed
George McGovern
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's economic advisory panel during his
presidential campaign
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References
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1925 births
1986 deaths
People from Chicago
Economists from Illinois
Williams College alumni
Harvard University alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
Fellows of the Econometric Society
20th-century American economists