Edwin Griswold Nourse
Edwin Griswold Nourse (born May 20, 1883 in Lockport , New York , † May 7, 1974 in Maryland ) was an American economist , university professor and first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers between 1946 and 1950 .
Life
After attending a high school in Illinois , Nourse, a younger brother of the writer Alice Tisdale Hobart , studied first at the Lewis Institute and then at Cornell University , which he graduated in 1906. In 1915 he earned a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) in economics and sociology from the University of Chicago .
He then took on a professorship at the University of South Dakota and was then professor at the University of Arkansas from 1915 to 1918 . He was then a professor at the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts between 1918 and 1923 .
In 1924 he became president of the American Farm Economic Association . During his long presidency in 1925 he wrote his two-volume main work American Agriculture and the European market , which was published in German in 1926 under the title American Agriculture and the European Industrial Peoples.
Nourse became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1934 . In 1942, he was the American Economic Association as president-elect before that increasingly became an international association of economists. When the Council of Economic Advisers , an advisory body to the President of the United States , was created under the Employment Act 1946 , Nourse became its first chairman and held this position until 1950.
After leaving this post, he received a Guggenheim scholarship between 1950 and 1951 . Nourse, who was also a member of the Social Science Research Council and vice president of the Brookings Institution , eventually became a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1957. Since 1952 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .
literature
- Edwin G. Nourse , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 06/1950 from January 30, 1950, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about Edwin Griswold Nourse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Edwin Griswold Nourse in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Edwin Griswold Nourse in the nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Past and Present Officers. aeaweb.org ( American Economic Association ), accessed October 31, 2015 .
- ^ Member History: Edwin G. Nourse. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 18, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nourse, Edwin Griswold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lockport , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7th 1974 |
| Place of death | Maryland |