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
Born(1930-11-20)November 20, 1930
DiedDecember 11, 2009(2009-12-11) (aged 79)
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
FieldEconometrics
School or
tradition
Neoclassical economics
Alma materUniversity 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]

Selected publications edit

  • (1964) Goldberger and Lawrence Klein. Econometric Model of the U. S., Nineteen Twenty-Nine to Nineteen Fifty-Two.
  • (1964) Goldberger. Econometric Theory (Wiley Publications in Applied Statistics) .John Wiley & Sons Inc.. ISBN 978-0471311010.
  • (1970) Goldberger. Impact Multipliers and Dynamic Properties of the Klein-Goldberger Model (Contributions to Economic Analysis). North-Holland Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0720431124.
  • (1981) Goldberger. A Course in Econometrics. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674175440.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Nicholas M. Kiefer (1989). "The ET Interview: Arthur S. Goldberger". Econometric Theory. 5: 133–160. doi:10.1017/s0266466600012299. S2CID 122352587.
  2. ^ Dept. of Economics, University of Wisconsin. "Arthur Goldberger (1930–2009)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 29, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  3. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-08-20.

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