Walter Buckingham

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walter Samuel Buckingham (* 1924 in Florida ; † 1967 ) was an American university professor and academic expert on automation issues.

Live and act

Buckingham has at Georgia Institute of Technology and at the Indiana University economics student. After receiving his doctorate, he initially taught at the University of London . He later became director of the School of Industrial Management and Professor of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He gained international recognition as an expert on automation issues for the Senate and House of Representatives in Washington. In 1961 the House of Representatives put him in charge of a subcommittee that was supposed to investigate the connections between unemployment and automation.

Fonts

  • Theoretical Economic Systems: A Comparative Analysis . Ronald Press, New York 1958.
  • Automation. Its Impact on Business and People . Harper & Row, New York, 1961.
    • German edition: Automation and Society . 3. Edition. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • The Great Employment Controversy . In: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . March 1962, pp. 46-52.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81139061/
  2. ^ Author note in: Walter Buckingham: Automation and Society . 3rd edition, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1967, p. 282.
personal data
SURNAME Buckingham, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buckingham, Walter Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Florida
DATE OF DEATH 1967