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Fairchild attended Doane College (AB, 1898) in Crete and Yale University (PhD, 1904). He also received an honorary LL.D. from Doane in 1929. [2] Fairchild taught economics at Yale for many years. [3] He was a holder of the Knox Chair of Economics. [4] He was published widely, and his work included well received textbooks. [5] [6]
Rashi Fein (February 6, 1926 – September 8, 2014) was an American health economist termed "a father of Medicare" in the United States [2] and "an architect of Medicare", [3] was Professor of Economics of Medicine, Emeritus, in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the author of the book Medical Care, Medical Costs: The Search for a Health ...
The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879 is a nonfiction history book by American historian Irwin Unger, published in 1964 by Princeton University Press. It won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for History. [1] It is about American finance in the post-Civil War period and the social and political elements involved ...
The cartoon represents the commercial status of the US during the Revolution. The American Revolution (1775–1783) inaugurated the inalienable rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", which emphasize individual freedom and economic entrepreneurship, and simultaneously a commitment to the political values of liberalism and ...
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199740925. Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. Robert Morris, Patriot and Financier (Macmillan, 1903) online. Perkins, Edwin J. American public finance and financial services, 1700–1815 (1994). pp. 85–105 on Revolution, pp. 106–36 on postwar.
"Portfolio Selection", Journal of Finance, 7 (1), 1952, 77–91. Description: Development of the utility framework which shows an optimum can be reached using a portfolio of investments. In effect the first real proof that you should not put all your eggs in one basket. Importance: Precursor to most modern portfolio theory work in finance.
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is a 1913 book by American historian Charles A. Beard. [1] It interpreted the early history of the United States from the lens of class conflict , arguing that the Constitution of the United States was structured to financially benefit the Founding Fathers .
He was a widely published author in finance and economics, and was a coauthor of a best-selling Corporate Finance textbook. [ 3 ] He received his BS with honors from Caltech in 1965 where he majored in physics, and his PhD in economics from Harvard in 1970, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania , Yale School of Management , and MIT .