Neil H. Jacoby

Neil Herman Jacoby (born September 19, 1909 in Saskatchewan , Canada ; † May 31, 1979 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American economist and university professor who was president of the American Finance Association in 1949 and a member of the American Finance Association between 1953 and 1955 Council of Economic Advisers was.

Life

After attending school, Jacoby began an undergraduate degree at the University of Saskatchewan , which he completed in 1930 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A post-graduate studies of economics at the University of Chicago concluded it in 1938 with a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) with a dissertation titled sales Retail taxation. Relation to business and consumers, and aministrative problems . In the early to mid-1940s, he worked for the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ), where he wrote several non-fiction books on finance and economics. He was a professor at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a member of the board of trustees of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey . He served intermittently as dean of UCLA's Graduate School of Business Administration .

In 1949 Jacoby became president of the American Finance Association for one year . In 1953 he was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers , an advisory body to the President of the United States . He was a member of this until 1955. In 1968 he was also an advisor to the Federal Reserve System and in 1973 a Fellow of the International Academy of Management. He was also involved in the American Economic Association , the Center for International Business, the Council on International Progress in Management, the National Planning Association, the National Tax Association and the Tax Research Foundation.

Publications

• Retail sales taxation. Relation to business and consumers, and aministrative problems , Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1938
• Term lending to business ... , National Bureau of Economic Research, 1942
• Financing inventory on field warehouse receipts ... , National Bureau of Economic Research, 1944
• Business finance and banking , co-author Raymond J. Saulnier , National Bureau of Economic Research, 1947
• Can prosperity be sustained? Policies for full employment and full production without price inflation in a free economy , Holt, 1956
• Evaluation of US economic aid to free China, 1951-1965 , Department of State, 1966
• European economics - east and west. Convergence of five European countries and the United States , co-author James E. Howell, World Pub. Co., 1967
• The polluters: industry or government? , Co-author FG Pennance, Institute of Economic Affairs, 1972
• Corporate power and social responsibility. A blueprint for the future , Macmillan, 1973

Web links

• Neil H. Jacoby in nndb (English)
• Proof of publication ( Open Library )