Edwin Kuh (April 13, 1925 – June 9, 1986) was an American

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. He was a faculty member at the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...

for over 30 years, and was widely known for his work with

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models to forecast production, savings, investment, business cycle, unemployment, and related functions.

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called him "one of the most innovative economists of his generation." A native of

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, Kuh attended

Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kill ...

and received his Ph.D. degree from

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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 John Robert Meyer (December 6, 1927 – October 20, 2009) was an American economist and educator. Meyer is credited with creating the field of transport economics and was one of the pioneers of cliometrics. 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's economic advisory panel during his

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Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuh, Edwin 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