Last updated on:
11/8/2007 |
Author: ProCon.org
Abba P. Lerner, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Economist
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of June 2006
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with PhDs and JDs or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to the ACLU. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to the ACLU. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Distinguished Professor, Economics at Florida State University
- Recipient, Rockefeller Fellowship, 1937
- Assistant Lecturer, London School of Economics, 1935-1937
- Education:
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- PhD, Economics, London School of Economics, 1943
- BSc, Economics, London School of Economics, 1932
- Other:
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- Died Oct. 27, 1982
- Born in Bessarabia, Russia on Oct. 28, 1903
- Developed the Lerner Index which measures potential monopoly power as the negative inverse of demand elasticity
- Developed the Lerner symmetry theorem which states that an import tariff can have the same effects as an export tax
- Improved a formula of Alfred Marshall, now known as the Marshall-Lerner principle
- Developed a model of market socialism known as the Third Way
- Taught at over a half-dozen universities in his career
- Launched the Review of Economic Studies
- Worked as a machinist, a teacher in Hebrew schools, and as a businessman, London East End, United Kingdom
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