Frederick Cecil Mills (March 24, 1892 – February 9, 1964) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University in Manhattan from 1919 to 1959.[1] An expert on business cycles, he was also a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1925 to 1953.[2] In 1940, he served as president of the American Economic Association.[3] Mills was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1926.[4]
Frederick C. Mills | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 24, 1892 |
| Died | February 9, 1964 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| Institution | Columbia University |
| School or tradition | Institutionalism |
| Alma mater | Columbia University University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Wesley Clair Mitchell |
His son, Robert Mills, was a physicist known for the development of Yang–Mills theory.[5]
Bibliography
edit- Raymond Taylor Bye; Frederick Cecil Mills (1940). An Appraisal of Frederick C. Mills' The Behavior of Prices. Social Science Research Council.
- Frederick Cecil Mills (1917). Contemporary Theories of Unemployment and Unemployment Relief. Columbia University.
References
edit- ^ "CU Emeritus Prof. F. Mills Dies Sunday". Columbia Daily Spectator. February 11, 1964.
- ^ "Frederick C. Mills, 1892-1964". HET: History of Economic Thought.
- ^ "University of California: In Memoriam, 1980". texts.cdlib.org. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
- ^ "View/Search Fellows of the ASA". American Statistical Association. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
- ^ "Columbia College Today".
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