Hendrik Houthakker

Hendrik S. Houthakker (1969)

Hendrik Samuel Houthakker (born December 31, 1924 in Amsterdam , † April 15, 2008 in Lebanon , New Hampshire ) was a Dutch -born American economist .

Life

Houthakker studied at the University of Amsterdam , where he graduated in 1949. He then went to the University of Cambridge . In 1952 he moved to the USA to do research with the Cowles Commission for Economic Research at the University of Chicago . From 1954 he taught at Stanford University . He stayed here until 1960, only interrupted in 1955 by a visiting professorship at the University of Tokyo . His next stop was Harvard University , where he worked until he retired in 1994.

Houthakker was initially a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under US President Lyndon B. Johnson . In the same capacity, he was a member of the then three-person committee under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1971 . He later took on other advisory tasks for various government institutions.

Houthakker belonged to several research institutions. For example, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1968), and the American Economic Association , of which he was Vice President at the beginning of the 1970s.

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Houthakker has worked in a wide variety of fields within economics . He has published on topics such as econometrics , budget theory or economic policy and economic relations between economies as well as international financial markets.

Web links

Commons : Hendrik S. Houthakker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Page about Houthakker at Harvard University
• List of Houthakker's major works