Peter Temin

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Peter Temin (born December 17, 1937 ) is an American economist and university professor.

Peter Temin graduated from Swarthmore College with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1959 and then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his PhD in 1964 . Since 1965 he has taught industrial history and economic history at MIT, among other things . From 1990 to 1993 he was head of the Institute for Economics at MIT. Since 1982 he has also been a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research . In 2009 he became a professor emeritus .

He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986) and the American Economic Association .

Peter Temin lives in Cambridge . He is married and has two grown children. He is the brother of Howard Temin .

Works (selection)

  • together with Paul A. Samuelson : Economics. McGraw-Hill, New York 1976 (English).
  • The fall of the Bell system: a study in prices and politics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1987 (English).
  • Lessons from the Great Depression. MIT Press, Cambridge 1989 (English).
  • together with David Vines: The leaderless economy: why the world economic system fell apart and how to fix it. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2013 (English).
  • Prometheus shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's financial revolution after 1700. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2013 (English).
  • The Roman market economy. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2013 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Temin: Curriculum Vitae. (PDF; 76.4 kB) MIT, May 2017, accessed on December 4, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Péter Érdi: Complexity Explained . Springer Science & Business Media, Berlin / Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-35778-0 , p. 334 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Temin, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1937