Warren M. Persons
American economist (1878–1937)
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Warren M. Persons (1878–1937) was an American economist. He was an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College, and a professor of economics at Colorado College and Harvard University. He was the President of the American Statistical Association in 1923.
Warren Milton Persons | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1878 |
| Died | October 11, 1937 (aged 58–59) |
| Education | University of Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Spouse | Irmagarde Keller |
Early life
Warren M. Persons was born in 1878.[1] He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1899, and he earned a PhD in economics in 1916.[2]
Career
Persons taught economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906.[2] He was an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College from 1906 to 1910.[2] He was a professor of economics at Colorado College from 1913 to 1918, and at Harvard University from 1918 to 1928.[2] He was also the editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics.[2]
Persons became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1914, and its president in 1923.[2]
Personal life and death
Works
- Persons, Warren M. (1919). Indices of General Business Conditions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Committee on Economic research. OCLC 917724375.
- Persons, Warren M. (1928). The Construction of Index Numbers. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
