William A. Barnett
| William A. Barnett | |
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Photograph of William A. Barnett
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| Born |
October 30, 1941 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | United States |
| Institution |
University of Kansas, Department of Economics. Center for Financial Stability, NY City. |
| Field | Economic measurement, macroeconomics, monetary econometrics, consumer demand and production modelling, nonlinear dynamics. |
| School or tradition |
neoclassical economics |
| Alma mater |
Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D., 1974). |
| Influences | Henri Theil, Milton Friedman, Franco Modigliani, Simon Kuznets, Robert Lucas, Jr., Thomas J. Sargent. |
| Influenced | Apostolos Serletis |
| Contributions |
Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. |
| Awards |
Higuchi Research Award (2013). American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (the PROSE Awards) (2012). |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
University of Kansas, Department of Economics.
Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D., 1974).
University of California at Berkeley (M.B.A., 1965).
Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics.
President of Society for Economic Measurement.
Director of Center for Financial Stability.
Higuchi Research Award (2013).
William Arnold Barnett (born October 30, 1941) is an American economist, whose current work is in the fields of chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinear dynamics in socioeconomic contexts, econometric modeling of consumption and production, and the study of the aggregation problem and the challenges of measurement in economics.
Barnett received his B.S. degree from M.I.T., his M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Barnett is currently the Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas and Director of the Center for Financial Stability, in New York City. He is also a Fellow of the IC² Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and a Fellow of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. He is the founder and President of the Society for Economic Measurement. He was previously Research Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.; Stuart Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin; and Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to becoming an economist, he worked as an engineer at Rocketdyne on development of the Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine.
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