Paul Douglas
Paul Howard Douglas (born 26 March 1892 in Salem, Massachusetts, † September 24, 1976 in Washington DC) was a university professor, economist and influential U.S. Senator (Democratic Party).
Life
Douglas was married to Emily Taft Douglas ( second marriage ), graduated in 1913 from Bowdoin College ( BA), and 1915 at Columbia University in New York ( MA) and studied 1915/1916 Economics at Harvard University (PhD). As an economist, economist, author and university professor, he taught 1916-1917 at the University of Illinois, 1917-1918 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. 1918 to 1919 he worked for the " Emergency Fleet Corporation ". 1919-1920 he took up a teaching post at the University of Washington; 1920 to 1949 he was a professor at the University of Chicago.
Douglas was a very successful economist who brought out a new book every two years at the University of Chicago. He learned the legendary Jane Addams of Hull House know that influenced his later fights against corruption and for social reforms. Between 1930 and 1939, was active in numerous state and national commissions and committees, and from 1939 to 1942 as an alderman in " Chicago City Council ."
His first bid for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1942 was not successful. From 1948 he was elected to the U.S. Senate for three legislatures until 1966 for 18 years for the Democratic Party from the state of Illinois. He was chairman of numerous committees there, including the Joint Committee on the Economic Report and the Joint Economic Committee. He was also Chairman of the President's Committee on Urban Affairs 1967-1968.
At the beginning of the 1970s, he retired after a stroke from public life and died on September 24, 1976 in Washington. His ashes were scattered in the forests of Jackson Park in Chicago. He wrote numerous articles for Economic and Political journals and magazines including The American Economic Review, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine.
In 1928 became Paul Douglas, along with Charles Wiggins Cobb, final celebrity. The two had a indicated by Johann Heinrich von Thünen and developed in 1913 by Knut Wicksell special form of the production function by statistically. The function is therefore known in neoclassical economics under the Cobb - Douglas function.
- The Worker in Modern Economic Society (1923 )
- Wages and the Family (1925 )
- Real Wages in the United States, 1890-1926 (1930 )
- The Problem of Unemployment (1931 )
- The Making of a New Party (1932 )
- Standards of Unemployment Insurance ( 1933),
- The Theory of Wages (1934 )
- Controlling Depression (1935 )
- Social Security in the United States (1936 )
- Ethics in Government (1952 ),
- Economy in the National Government ( 1952),
- In Our Time (1967 )
- In the Fullness of Time (1971). autobiography
Swell
- Jerry M. Anderson: Paul H. Douglas: Insurgent Senate Spokesman for Human Causes, 1949-1963. Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1964.
- Roger Biles: Crusading Liberal, Paul H. Douglas of Illinois. , 2002.
- Paul H. Douglas: In the Fullness of Time: The Memoirs of Paul H. Douglas. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York 1972.