Eberhard M. Fels

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Eberhard Maximilian Fels (born January 13, 1924 in Berlin ; † April 18, 1970 near Starnberg ) was a German economist .

Life

After studying economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he received his doctorate there in 1953 with a thesis “On the theory and measurement of non-additive demand functions”. He then worked for nine years at American universities, most recently as professor of statistics and social sciences at the University of Pittsburgh . In 1963 he was appointed to the chair for econometrics and statistics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. At the age of 46, he drowned in an accident in Lake Starnberg in 1970.

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The teaching and research activities of Eberhard M. Fels were broad: methodology of the social sciences, econometrics, statistics, linear methods in economic theory, mathematical logic and basic research. In addition, he dealt intensively with the state of mathematical and economic research in the former Soviet Union.

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