Dale W. Jorgenson

Dale Jorgenson Weldeau ( born May 7, 1933, Bozeman ) is an American economist.

Life

Jorgenson attended a public school in Helena, Montana. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955 from Reed College. In 1957 with the Artium Magister his Masters from Harvard University and two years later, Dale Jorgenson received at the same university a Ph.D. He then worked at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked as an associate in 1961 and 1963 as full professor of lecturer economy was. He was also from 1962 to 1963 as a Ford Foundation Research Professor at the University of Chicago. In 1969 he left the University of California to go back to Harvard where he was a full professor and from 1980 Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor and since 2002 was Samuel W. Morris University Professor. During his time at Harvard, married Jorgenson, on 24 July 1971, Linda Ann Mabus with whom he had two children ( born 1979 and * 1975).

Scientific Work

Jorgenson has written over 240 articles for scientific journals. In addition, he has published 31 books. In July 1997, he proposed to the Congress of the United States to levy a tax on greenhouse gas.

Awards

• John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1971
• Honorary Doctor of the University of Uppsala in 1991
• Honorary Doctor of the University of Oslo in 1991
• Outstanding Contribution Award from the International Association of Energy Economists in 1994
• Honorary Doctor of Keio University in 2003
• Adam Smith Prize of the National Association for Business Economics in 2005
• Honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2007

Works

• Optimal Replacement Policy, together with JJ McCall and R. Radner, Amsterdam 1967
• Measuring Performance in the Private Economy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1950-1973, Tübingen 1975
• Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth, FM Gollop and BM Fraumeni, Cambridge 1987
• Tax Reform and the Cost of Capital, with K.-Y. Yun, Oxford 1991
• International Comparisons of Economic Growth, Cambridge 1995
• Postwar U.S. Economic Growth, Cambridge 1995
• Capital Theory and Investment Behavior, Cambridge 1996
• Tax Policy and the Cost of Capital, Cambridge 1996
• Aggregate Consumer Behavior, Cambridge 1997
• Measuring Social Welfare, Cambridge 1997
• Econometric General Equilibrium Modeling, Cambridge 1998
• Energy, the Environment, and Economic Growth, Cambridge 1998
• Econometric Modeling of Producer Behavior, Cambridge 2000
• Economic Growth in the Information Age, Cambridge 2002
• Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence, Cambridge 2005
• A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, with J. Steven Landefeld and William D. Nordhaus, Chicago 2006