John Donald Black (June 6, 1883 – April 12, 1960) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at

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from 1918 to 1927, and then from 1927 to 1956 at

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. Black was one of the authors of the

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. He was also president of the

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in 1955. Black died at a Boston hospital in 1960.

Bibliography

* (1926) Production Economics.

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* (1942) Parity, parity, parity. The Harvard Committee on Research in the Social Sciences. * (1944) Food Enough: Science for War and Peace Series.

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. * (1950) The Rural Economy of New England: A Regional Study.

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B0000CHSFH. * (1951
Interregional Competition in Agriculture: With Special Reference to Dairy Farming in the Lake States and New England
Harvard Economic Studies. * (1955) Farm and Other Operating-unit Land-use Planning. * (1960) Rural Planning of One County: Worcester County, Massachusetts.

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, Journal of Political Economy.

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* 1883 births 1960 deaths People from Cambridge, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Harvard University faculty University of Minnesota faculty Presidents of the American Economic Association 20th-century American economists Economists from Wisconsin {{US-economist-stub