Arthur Goldberger
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Arthur Stanley Goldberger (November 20, 1930 – December 11, 2009) was an econometrician and an economist. He worked with Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein on the development of the Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic model at the University of Michigan.[1][2]
Arthur S. Goldberger | |
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Born | (1930-11-20)November 20, 1930 |
Died | December 11, 2009(2009-12-11) (aged 79) |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Field | Econometrics |
School or tradition | Neoclassical economics |
Alma mater | University of Michigan (PhD) NYU (B.S.) |
Doctoral advisor | Lawrence Klein |
Doctoral students | P. A. V. B. Swamy |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
He spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he helped build the Department of Economics. He wrote classic graduate and undergraduate econometrics textbooks, including Econometric Theory (1964), A Course in Econometrics (1991) and Introductory Econometrics (1998). Among his many accomplishments, he published a number of articles critically evaluating the literature on the heritability of IQ and other behavioral traits.[1]
In 1968 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3]