Edwin Mills

Edwin Smith Mills (* 25. June 1928 in Collingswood , New Jersey ) is an American economist and emeritus professors . He is considered one of the pioneers in urban economics .

Career, research and teaching

After Mills left Collingswood High School in 1946 , he served in the US Army until the summer of 1947 . He then began his studies in economics at Brown University in the fall of 1948 . He finished this in the summer of 1951 as Artium Baccalaureus with the distinction magna cum laude . He moved to the University of Birmingham , where he continued his studies as part of the Fulbright program . In 1956 he graduated with a Ph.D. , his thesis with the title "Theory of Inventory Decisions" received the award for best submitted paper of 1955. At the same time he worked from 1953 as an assistant lecturer at the University College of North Staffordshire , today's Keele University .

In 1955 Mills returned to the United States and went to the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston . In 1957 he moved to Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor . From 1960 associate professor , the university appointed him full professor in the summer of 1963. Three years later he took over the management of the Department of Political Economy . In 1970 he followed a call from Princeton University . At the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs he took over the Gerald L. Phillippe Chair for Urban Studies until 1976 . He was then Professor of Economics until 1987 and head of the Economics Department between 1975 and 1977. In 1987, Mills accepted a call from Northwestern University , where he took up the Gary Rosenberg Chair at the renowned Kellogg Graduate School of Management . In 1996 he retired, but stayed with the university in the following years with further lectures.

Together with Richard Muth and William Alonso , Mills developed the fundamentals of regional and urban economics in the 1960s . Mills and Muth supplemented the model developed by Alsonso of a monocentric urban structure for the economic description of urban development. The main focus of Mills was in particular on the description of property prices, indexes and financing, but also the environmental influences on the choice of living space. His main work Urban Economics , first published in 1972 - translated into various languages ​​- already appeared in its fifth edition in 1997.

Fonts

The following is a selection of Mills' published books, and he has written numerous magazine articles and working papers.

• Urban Economics. 1972.
• The Economics of Environmental Quality. 1978.
• The Burden of Government. 1986.
• with John F. McDonald : The economics of housing markets. 1992.
• with Charles Becker , Jeffrey G. Williamson : Indian Urbanization and Economic Growth Since 1960. 1992.

literature

• Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , p. 779

Web links

• Edwin Mills at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management
• Literature by and about Edwin Mills in the catalog of the German National Library