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Russian-British economist (1903?1982)
Abraham
"
Abba
"
Ptachya Lerner
(also
Abba Psachia Lerner
;
[1]
[2]
28 October 1903 ? 27 October 1982) was a Russian-born American-British
economist
.
Biography
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Born in
Novoselytsia
,
Bessarabia
,
Russian Empire
,
[3]
Lerner grew up in a
Jewish
family, which emigrated to Great Britain when Lerner was three years old. Lerner grew up in London's
East End
and from age 16 worked as a machinist, a teacher in
Hebrew
schools, and as an entrepreneur. In 1929, Lerner entered the
London School of Economics
, where he studied under
Friedrich Hayek
. A six-month stay at
Cambridge
in 1934?1935 brought him into contact with
John Maynard Keynes
. In 1937, Lerner emigrated to the United States.
[4]
[5]
While in the US, he befriended intellectual opponents
Milton Friedman
and
Barry Goldwater
.
[6]
Lerner never stayed at one institution long, serving on the faculties of nearly a dozen universities and accepting over 20 visiting appointments.
[7]
Lerner was 62 when he was given a professorship at the
University of California, Berkeley
in 1965 and left after reaching mandatory retirement age six years later.
[7]
During his time there, Lerner criticized the unrest caused by the student protests as a threat to
academic freedom
.
[7]
Abba Lerner taught in the Economics Department at Florida State University, for several years. He stopped teaching after he suffered a stroke while visiting Israel.
Although Lerner never received the Sveriges Riksbank's
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
, he has been recognized as one of the greatest economists of his era.
[8]
Research
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References
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- ^
The London Gazette (8 November 1935)
- ^
New York Passenger Lists
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"
Abraham Psachia Lerner, Assistant Lecturer in Economics
",
The London Gazette
, 8 November 1935.
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Odekon, Mehmet (2011).
Booms and Busts: An Encyclopedia of Economic History from the First Stock Market Crash of 1792 to the Current Global Economic Crisis
. Armonk, NY: Sharpe.
ISBN
9780765682246
.
- ^
Colander, David
(December 1984), "Was Keynes a Keynesian or a Lernerian?",
Journal of Economic Literature
,
22
: 1571?79, argues for the influence of Lerner's interpretation Keynes in "textbook" Keynesianism.
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link
)
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Arrow, Kenneth J. (25 August 2016).
On Ethics and Economics: Conversations with Kenneth J. Arrow
. Routledge.
ISBN
978-1-317-19779-9
.
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a
b
c
Gerard Debreu
; B. Hansen;
Charles J. Hitch
(1988).
1988, University of California: In Memoriam
. University of California Academic Senate. pp. 82?84
. Retrieved
8 April
2017
.
- ^
Scitovsky, Tibor (1984). "Lerner's Contribution to Economics".
Journal of Economic Literature
.
22
(4): 1547?1571.
JSTOR
2725381
.
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Abba P. Lerner, 1938. "Theory and Practice in Socialist Economics".
Review of Economic Studies
, 6(1), pp.
71
?75.
? _____, 1934. "Economic Theory and Socialist Economy,"
Review of Economic Studies
, 2(1), pp.
51
?61.
? _____, 1936. "A Note on Socialist Economics",
Review of Economic Studies
, 4(1), pp.
72
?76.
? _____, 1937. "Statics and Dynamics in Socialist Economics,"
Economic Journal
, 47(186), pp.
253
?270.
? _____, 1944,
The Economics of Control
, Macmillan. (
J.E. Meade
article book-review
extract.
)
- ^
Tadeusz Kowalik (2008), "Lange, Oskar Ryszard (1904?1965),"
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
, 2nd Edition.
Abstract.
- ^
Tibor Scitovsky
, ([1987] 2008). "Lerner, Abba Ptachya (1905?1982),"
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
, 2nd Edition. Preview
link.
- ^
Raaj Kumar Sah
and
Joseph E. Stiglitz
, 1985. "Human Fallibility and Economic Organization",
American Economic Review
, 75(2), pp.
292
?297.
- ^
Who framed 'social dividend'?
, by Van Tier, Walter. March 2002. USBIG Conference, CUNY.
- ^
"What eventually became known as textbook Keynesian policies were in many ways Lerner's interpretations of Keynes's policies, especially those expounded in
The Economics of Control
(1944) and later in
The Economics of Employment
(1951)...Textbook expositions of Keynesian policy naturally gravitated to the black and white 'Lernerian' policy of
Functional Finance
rather than the grayer Keynesian policies. Thus, the vision that monetary and fiscal policy should be used as a balance wheel, which forms a key element in the textbook policy revolution, deserves to be called Lernerian rather than Keynesian." (
Colander 1984
, p. 1573)
- ^
Abba P. Lerner, 1936. "The Symmetry Between Import and Export Taxes",
Economica
, N.S., 3(11), pp.
306
?313.
- ^
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
,
Arvind Panagariya
, and
T. N. Srinivasan
, 1998
Lectures on International Trade
, 2nd Edition, MIT Press.
Description
and ch. 12, sect. 12?6, Lerner Symmetry Theorem, scrollable preview, pp.
215?19.
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Abba P. Lerner, 1934. "The Concept of Monopoly and the Measurement of Monopoly Power,"
Review of Economic Studies
,
1(3), pp.
157
?175.
- ^
? Abba P. Lerner, 1944,
The Economics of Control
, Macmillan.
? _____, 1952. "Factor Prices and International Trade,"
Economica
, N.S., 19(73), pp.
1
?15.
- ^
? Abba P. Lerner, 1944,
The Economics of Control
, Macmillan, ch. 3.
? _____, 1978. "Utilitarian Marginalism (Nozick, Rawls, Justice, and Welfare),"
Eastern Economic Journal
, 4(1), pp.
51?65.
- ^
Abba P. Lerner, 1943. "Functional Finance and the Federal Debt,"
Social Research
, 10(1), pp.
38
?51.
- ^
Abba P. Lerner, 1952. "Factor Prices and International Trade,"
Economica
, N.S., 19(73), pp.
1
?15.
- ^
Murray C. Kemp, 2008.
International Trade Theory: A Critical Review
, Routledge, pp.
xiv?xvii.
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