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Jacob Viner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jacob Viner (May 3, 1892 – September 12, 1970) was an economist and as one of the early members of the modern day Chicago School of Economics. Viner was born in 1892 in Montreal, Quebec to Romanian i...
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Viner, Jacob (1892-1970), third Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance, was one of the ablest economists of his generation, and ``in the range and depth of insight and erudition,'' according to the British economist Lionel C. Robbins, ``the outstanding all-rounder of his time in our profession.''
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Together with Knight, the Canadian-born Jacob Viner was the leading light of the Chicago School of the inter-war period. His work ranged all over economics, but it is perhaps his work on the history of economic thought and international trade theory that we find his remarkable strengths.
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Economics historian Mark Blaug called Jacob Viner “the greatest historian of economic thought that ever lived.” One of Viner’s greatest accomplishments is his book Studies in the Theory of International Trade.
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Viner, Jacob - 1892—1970, American economist, b. Montreal. He taught at the Univ. of Chicago (1919—46) and Princeton Univ. (1946—60). A specialist on the subject of international trade, Viner was an... ... Yahoo! Education > Reference > Encyclopedia > Viner, Jacob...
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Our youngest child, 10-year-old Jacob, is soon to embark on his valedictory term at the little village primary school, before secondary education beckons in the heaving metropolis, comparatively speaking, of Hereford. ... More from Brian Viner...
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Jacob Viner was born on May 3, 1892 in Montreal, Canada, to Samuel P. Viner and Rachel Smilovici, of Romanian descent. ... Jacob Viner (May 3, 1892 - September 12, 1970), was a Canadian-born American economist. Together with Frank Hyneman Knight he was one of the leading figures at the Chicago School of the inter-war period.
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Biography of Jacob Viner ... Abstract: Jacob Viner (1892-1970) is considered one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century. His career was spent at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, and he also frequently served as an advisor to the United States government.
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(1943–52). Viner's work ranges from specialized writings on the theory of costs in The Long View and the Short (1931), in which he laid out the envelope cost curve, to such histories of economic thought as Studies in the Theory of International Trade (1937) and Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics (ed.
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