Edwin Mills (economist)
Edwin Smith Mills ( born June 25, 1928 in Collingswood, New Jersey) is an American economist and an emeritus professor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the city economics.
Career, teaching and research
After Mills had 1946 Collingswood High School leave, he first served until the summer of 1947 in the U.S. Army. He then started in the fall of 1948 his studies in economics at Brown University. This he finished in the summer of 1951 as Baccalaureus Artium with the distinction magna cum laude. He moved to the University of Birmingham, where he continued his studies under the Fulbright program. In 1956 he graduated with the academic title of Ph.D., his thesis entitled " The Theory of Inventory Decisions" received the award for best submitted work of the year 1955. Parallel he worked from 1953 as Assistant Lecturer at University College of North Staffordshire, today's Keele University.
1955 Mills returned back to the United States and went to the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. In 1957, he joined as an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. From 1960 Associate Professor, the university appointed him in the summer of 1963 as a full professor. Three years later he became head of the department of political economy. In 1970 he accepted a position at Princeton University. At the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, he took until 1976 to Gerald L. Phillippe - chair of urban studies. Subsequently, he was until 1987 Professor of Economics and 1975-1977 Head of the Economics Department. In 1987 he was Mills a call from Northwestern University, at the prestigious Kellogg Graduate School of Management, he took over the Gary Rosenberg Chair. He retired in 1996 but remained with further lectures at the University in the following years.
Together with Richard Muth and William Alonso Mills developed in the 1960s, the foundations of Regional Economics and Urban Economics. Mills and Muth supplemented developed by Alsonso model of a monocentric city structure for economic description of urban development. The main focus Mills was in particular in the description of real estate prices, indices and financing, but also the environmental influences on the residential seating. His 1972 masterpiece erstveröffentlichtes Urban Economics - translated into different languages - was published in 1997 in its fifth edition.
Works
The following list is a selection of Mills published books again, he has also written numerous journal articles and working papers.
- Urban Economics, 1972
- The Economics of Environmental Quality, 1978
- The economics of housing markets with John F. McDonald, 1992
- Indian Urbanization and Economic Growth Since 1960 with Charles Becker and Jeffrey Williamson, 1992