Frederick C. Mills

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Frederick C. Mills
Born(1892-03-24)March 24, 1892
Santa Rosa, California, US
DiedFebruary 9, 1964(1964-02-09) (aged 71)
Neshanic, New Jersey, US
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorWesley Clair Mitchell
Academic work
DisciplineMacroeconomics
School or traditionInstitutionalism
InstitutionsColumbia University

Frederick Cecil Mills (March 24, 1892 – February 9, 1964) was an American economist.[1] He was a professor of economics at Columbia University in Manhattan from 1919 to 1959.[2] An expert on business cycles, he was also a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1925 to 1953.[3] In 1940, he served as president of the American Economic Association.[4] Mills was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1926.[5]

His son, Robert Mills, was a physicist known for the development of Yang–Mills theory.[6]

Bibliography

  • Raymond Taylor Bye; Frederick Cecil Mills (1940). An Appraisal of Frederick C. Mills' The Behavior of Prices. Social Science Research Council.
  • Frederick Cecil Mills (1924). Statistical Methods, applied to Economics and Business. Henry Holt.[7]
  • Frederick Cecil Mills (1917). Contemporary Theories of Unemployment and Unemployment Relief. Columbia University.

References

  1. ↑ Woirol, Gregory R. (1999). "The Contributions of Frederick C. Mills". Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 21 (2): 163–185. doi:10.1017/S1053837200003126. ISSN 1469-9656.
  2. ↑ "CU Emeritus Prof. F. Mills Dies Sunday". Columbia Daily Spectator. February 11, 1964.
  3. ↑ "Frederick C. Mills, 1892-1964". HET: History of Economic Thought.
  4. ↑ "University of California: In Memoriam, 1980". texts.cdlib.org. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ "View/Search Fellows of the ASA". American Statistical Association. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Columbia College Today".
  7. ↑ Crum, W. L. (1925). Mills, Frederick Cecil (ed.). "Mills's Statistical Methods". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 39 (3): 469–472. doi:10.2307/1882437. ISSN 0033-5533.