Alvin Hansen

Alvin Harvey Hansen ( born August 23, 1887 in Viborg (South Dakota), † June 6, 1975 in Alexandria ( Virginia)) was an American Keynesian economist (Harvard University).

Life

Hansen was born in 1887 in Viborg (South Dakota) as a child of Danish immigrants. After graduating from Yankton College in 1910, he worked for a time as a teacher at a high school until 1918, he completed his studies at the University of Wisconsin. He taught briefly at Brown University until he was appointed in 1923 to the University of Minnesota.

In 1937 he was appointed as Lucis N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. Hansen was one of the most important widening Keynesian body of thought in the United States, which earned him the nickname The American Keynes. Among his students at Harvard were among the later Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson and James Tobin. Widespread found his textbook A Guide to Keynes, the Keynes ' General Theory in detail chapter by chapter explained and supplemented.

Hansen had his membership in numerous advisory bodies of the American governments major influence on the economic policies of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. He was vice president of the American Statistical Association and president of the American Economics Association.

After his retirement in 1957 he taught until his death in 1975 at various American universities and the University of Bombay.

Publications

  • Cycles of Strikes (1921, AER)
  • Business Cycle Theory (1927 )
  • A fundamental error in Keynes 's Treatise (1932, AER)
  • Economic stabilization in to Unbalanced World ( 1932)
  • Mr. Keynes on Underemployment Equilibrium (1936, Journal of Political Economy ( JPE ) )
  • Full Recovery or Stagnation (1938 )
  • Economic Progress and Declining Population Growth (1939, AER)
  • Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles ( 1941)
  • Economic Policy and Full Employment ( 1946)
  • Some Notes on Terborgh 's "The Bogey of Economic Maturity " (1946, Restat )
  • Dr. Burns on Keynesian Economics (1947, RES )
  • The General Theory ( 1947)
  • Keynes on Economic Policy (1947 )
  • Monetary Theory and Fiscal Policy (1949 )
  • The Pigouvian Effect (1951, JPE )
  • A Guide to Keynes (1953 )
  • The Dollar and the International Monetary System ( 1965)
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