Jacob Viner
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| Born |
May 3, 1892 Montreal, Quebec |
| Died | September 12, 1970 (aged 78) Princeton, New Jersey |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Institution | University of Chicago, Princeton University |
| Field | Economics |
| School or tradition |
Chicago School of Economics |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (Ph.D.), McGill University |
| Influences | Frank W. Taussig, Frank Knight |
| Influenced | George Stigler, Milton Friedman |
Jacob Viner (May 3, 1892 – September 12, 1970) was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago School of Economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading figures of the Chicago faculty.
Viner was born to a Jewish family in 1892 in Montreal, Quebec, to Romanian immigrant parents and earned his undergraduate degree at McGill University in 1914. He received a PhD at Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation under the renowned international trade economist Frank W. Taussig.
Viner was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1916 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1946. At various times Viner also taught at Stanford and Yale universities and twice went to the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1946 he left for Princeton University, where he remained until his retirement in 1960. He was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton from 1947 to 1948, and a permanent member there from 1950 to 1970.
As a professor, Viner had a reputation as being extremely tough and many students were terrified by the prospect of studying under him. To his friends and family, however, he was known to be wise, witty, and kind. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman studied under Viner while he was at the University of Chicago.
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