Frederick C. Mills

Frederick C. Mills
Born(1892-03-24)March 24, 1892
DiedFebruary 9, 1964(1964-02-09) (aged 71)
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.