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List of Professors
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Years at Michigan | Position | |
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Alan V. Deardorff |
1970 - 2021 | Professor of Economics and Public Policy |
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Albert Francis Park |
1997 - 2007 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Alexander Eckstein |
1961 - 1976 | Professor of Economics |
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Andrew M. Coleman |
2000 - 2005 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Anthony Y.C. Koo |
1964 - 1968 | Professor of Economics |
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Aquiles Almansi |
1985 - 1989 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Ariel T. Burstein |
2002 - 2003 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Arthur Smithies |
1938 - 1946 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Avery Katz |
1986 - 1994 | Professor of Law, Economics |
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Burkhard F. Struempel |
1968 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Carol Adaire Jones |
1984 - 1989 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Natural Resources |
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Carroll H. May |
1921 - 1930 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Carter Lyman Goodrich |
1924 - 1931 | Professor of Economics |
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Charles Brown |
1985 - 2022 |
Professor of Economics Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research |
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Charles Edmonds |
1920 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Business Organization |
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Charles Frederick Remer |
1928 - 1959 | Professor of Economics |
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Charles Russel Hill |
1969 - 1975 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Daisuke Nakajima |
2005 - 2013 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Daniel B. Suits |
1947 - 1970 | Professor of Economics |
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Daniel L. Rubinfeld |
1972 - 1984 |
Professor of Economics Professor of Law |
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Daniel P. O'Brien |
1989 - 1991 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Daniel Roland Fusfeld |
1960 - 1987 | Professor of Economics |
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David Aschauer |
1983 - 1989 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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David Daokui Li |
1992 - 1999 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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David Lam |
1983 - 2023 |
Professor of Economics & Research Professor Director of Institute for Social Research 2015-2021 |
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David Roth |
1992 - 1997 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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David Sappington |
1980 - 1982 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Deborah S. Freedman |
1967 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Donald C. Shoup |
1970 - 1973 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Edgar Malone Hoover Jr. |
1936 | Professor of Economics |
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Edmund Ezra Day |
1922 - 1928 |
Professor of Economics Chair of the Economics Department Dean of the Business School |
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Edward David Jones |
1901 - 1919 | Professor of Political Economy |
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Edward M. Gramlich |
1976 - 2006 |
Richard R. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Public Policy Professor of Public Policy and Economics Interim Provost |
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Egon Neuberger |
1965 - 1966 | Visiting Professor of Economics |
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Elliot Joseph Berg |
1966 - 1983 | Professor of Economics |
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Emre Ozdenoren |
2000 - 2010 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Ennio S. Stacchetti |
1992 - 2002 | Professor of Economics |
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Eugene Philip Howrey |
1973 - 2004 |
Professor of Economics, Statistics Research Scientist |
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Eva L. Mueller |
1951 - 1988 | Professor of Economics |
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F. Thomas Juster |
1973 - 1996 |
Professor of Economics Research Scientist |
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Frank P. Stafford |
1969 - 2017 | Professor of Economics |
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Fred Emerson Clark |
1916 - 1919 | Assistant Professor of Commerce and Industry |
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Frederick Manville Taylor |
1893 - 1930 |
Professor of Political Economy and Finance, Economics Chair of Economics Department |
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Gary R. Solon |
1983 - 2018 | Professor of Economics |
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Gary Rand Solon |
1983 - 2007 |
Professor of Economics, Public Policy Chair of Economics |
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Gary Saxonhouse |
1979 - 2006 | Professor of Economics |
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Gavin Wright |
1974 - 1982 | Professor of Economics |
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George A. Fulton |
1978 - 2016 |
Research Professor & Director Center for Labor Market Research Research Scientist Department of Economics |
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George E. Johnson |
1966 - 2007 | Professor of Economics |
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George Katona |
1948 - 1972 | Professor of Economics, Psychology |
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George R Anderson |
1942 - 1973 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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George Shorey Peterson |
1921 - 1968 | Professor of Economics |
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George William Dowrie |
1913 - 1918 | Professor of Economics |
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Gordon H. Hanson |
1998 - 2001 | Professor of Economics, Business Administration |
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Grege E. Shaffer |
1989 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Gregory Clark |
1989 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Harcourt Lenhart Caverly |
1924 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Harold Demsetz |
1958 - 1960 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Harold Myer Levinson |
1945 - 1983 | Professor of Economics |
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Harold T. Shapiro |
1964 - 1988 |
Professor of Economics Chair of Economics Vice President for Academic Affairs |
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Harvey E. Brazer |
1957 - 1985 | Professor of Economics |
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Henry Carter Adams |
1880 - 1921 | Professor of Political Economy and Finance |
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Herbert Francis Taggart |
1924 - 1968 | Professor of Accounting, Business Administration |
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Herbert Nicholaus Schmitt |
1917 - 1922 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Howard Sylvester Ellis |
1929 - 1938 | Professor of Economics |
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Illoong Kwon |
1999 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Isaiah Leo Sharfman |
1912 - 1955 |
Henry Carter Adams University Professor of Economics Chair Department of Economic |
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James A. Levinsohn |
1987 - 2010 |
Professor of Economics Professor of Public Policy |
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James Elbert Cutler |
1906 - 1907 | Assistant Professor of Political Economy |
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James N. Morgan |
1949 - 1987 |
Professor of Economics Research Scientist |
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James Pickwell Adams |
1944 - 1951 |
Professor of Economics Provost |
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Jan Kmenta |
1973 - 1993 | Professor of Economics, Statistics |
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Janet Gerson |
1983 - 2016 |
Lecturer IV Economics Lecture IV Emerita |
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Jarvis M. Babcock |
1962 - 1964 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Jeffrey Alan Miron |
1984 - 1990 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Jeffrey Alexander Frankel |
1978 - 1979 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason |
1986 - 2015 |
Professor and Dean of School of Information Professor of Information & Computer Science Professor of Economics |
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Jeremy Fox |
2010 - 2015 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Jing Cai |
2012 - 2016 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Jing Zhang |
2005 - 2013 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Jinyong Hahn |
1999 - 2000 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Joan Porter Crary |
1978 - 2015 | Assistant Research Scientist Economics |
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John B. Condiffe |
1930 - 1931 | Visiting Professor of Economics |
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John Belcher Lansing |
1962 - 1970 |
Professor of Economics Chair, Department of Economics - 1970 |
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John Bound |
1986 - 2022 |
Professor of Economics Research Professor, Populations Studies, Institute for Social Research |
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John E. DiNardo |
2001 - 2017 | Professor of Economics and Public Policy |
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John Elliot Parker |
1963 - 1967 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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John G. Cross |
1965 - 2001 |
Professor of Economics Senior Associate Research Scientist |
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Joseph Daniel Mooney |
1968 - 1969 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Joseph E. Swierzbinsk |
1988 - 1994 | Assistant Professor Economics, Natural Resources |
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Juan Carlos Hallak |
2002 - 2007 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Julianne Berry Cullen |
1996 - 2003 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Justin McCrary |
2003 - 2008 |
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Kai-Uwe Kuhn |
1998 - 2016 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Kenneth Eward Boulding |
1949 - 1968 | Professor of Economics |
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Kenneth G. Binmore |
1986 - 1993 | Professor of Economics |
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Kenneth L. Wertz |
1970 - 1973 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Kerwin Kofi Charles |
1995 - 2006 |
Associate Professor of Public Policy Associate Professor of Economics |
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Klaas Van’t Veld |
1997 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Lawrence R. Klein |
1950 - 1956 | Professor of Economics |
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Lee A. Lillard III |
1998 - 2000 | Professor of Economics |
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Leonard L Watkins |
1926 - 1957 | Professor of Economics |
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Lester D. Taylor |
1969 - 1974 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Lewis Henry Haney |
1908 | Assistant Professor of Political Economy |
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Lones A. Smith |
1998 - 2010 | Professor of Economics |
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Lucas William Davis |
2005 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Lung-Fei Lee |
1991 - 1996 | Professor of Economics |
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Manuela Angelucci |
2010 - 2016 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Margaret Elliot Tracy |
1928 - 1949 |
Professor of Economics Professor Personnel Management |
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Margarita Genius |
1990 - 1994 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Mark E. Bagnoli |
1983 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Mark Gersovitz |
1989 - 1994 | Professor of Economics |
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Max Sylvius Handman |
1931 - 1940 | Professor of Economics |
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Meredith L. Fowlie |
2006 - 2009 |
Assistant Professor of Economics Assistant Professor of Public Policy |
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Michael E. Chernew |
1992 - 2007 |
Professor of Economics Visiting Professor of Health Management and Policy |
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Michael E. Manove |
1968 - 1975 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Michael Eisby |
2005 - 2011 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Michael Lee Hartzmark |
1984 - 1988 | Assistant Professor Economics, Business Administration |
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Michelle J. White |
1983 - 2001 | Professor of Economics |
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Miles Spencer Kimball |
1987 - 2016 |
Professor of Economics Research Professor, Institute for Social Research |
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Montague Yudelman |
1965 - 1968 | Professor of Economics |
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Morris A. Copeland |
1936 | Professor of Economics |
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Morris Bornstein |
1958 - 1992 |
Professor of Economics Research Scientist |
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Natalia Lazzati |
2011 - 2015 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Omri Ben-Shahar |
1999 - 2008 |
Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law Professor of Economics |
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Patrick L. Bajari |
2005 - 2006 | Professor of Economics |
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Paul J. Feldstein |
1964 - 1987 | Professor of Economics, Health Services Management and Policy |
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Paul N. Courant |
1973 - 2020 | Professor of Information, Economics & Public Policy |
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Paula A. Malone |
1998 - 2014 |
Lecturer IV in Economics Lecturer IV Emerita |
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Perry Mason |
1922 - 1930 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Peter C. Eckstein |
1967 - 1970 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Peter S. Heller |
1971 - 1977 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Peter Steiner |
1968 - 1991 |
Professor of Economics, Law Dean of Literature, Science, and the Arts |
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Rebecca Lynn Thornton |
2006 - 2015 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Rebecca M. Blank |
1999 - 2007 |
Professor of Economics Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy Dean of the School of Public Policy |
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Richard A. Musgrave |
1947 - 1959 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Richard B. Mancke |
1971 - 1974 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Richard Clay Porter |
1964 - 1999 | Professor of Economics |
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Richard H. Tilly |
1964 - 1966 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Robert B. Barsky |
1985 - 2014 |
Professor of Economics & Personnel Management Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research |
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Robert Dernberge |
1968 - 1995 | Professor of Economics |
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Robert E. Thomas |
1988 - 1994 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Business Economics |
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Robert F. Dernberger |
1968 - 1995 | Professor of Economics |
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Robert Holbrook |
1965 - 2000 | Professor of Economics |
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Robert J. Willis |
1995 - 2018 |
Professor of Economics Research Professor Survey Research Center Research Professor Population Studies Center |
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Robert Spivey Ford |
1934 - 1968 |
Professor of Economics Associate Dean of Graduate School |
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Robert Stern |
1961 - 1999 | Professor of Economics, Public Policy |
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Robin E. Wells |
1991 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Roger H. Gordon |
1983 - 2001 | Reuben Kempf Professor of Economics |
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Rohini Somanathan |
1998 - 2005 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Ronald A. Shearer |
1958 - 1962 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Ronald L. Teigen |
1962 - 1983 | Professor of Economics |
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Ruediger Bachmann |
2007 - 2012 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Ryan M. Kellogg |
2008 - 2016 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Samuel P. Hayes Jr. |
1956 - 1962 | Professor of Economics |
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Saul H. Hymans |
1964 - 2004 |
Professor of Economics Research Scientist |
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Serena Ng |
2003 - 2008 | Professor of Economics |
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Severin J. Borenstein |
1983 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Public Policy |
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Shaun McRae |
2010 - 2016 | Assistant Professor of Economic |
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Shinichi Sakata |
1995 - 2003 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Sidney G. Winter Jr. |
1968 - 1976 | Professor of Economics |
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Stefan E. Oppers |
1993 - 1995 | Professor of Economics |
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Stefan Nagel |
2013 - 2017 |
Michael Stark Professor of Finance Professor of Economics |
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Stephan Lauermann |
2007 - 2014 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Stephen W. Salant |
1986 - 2015 | Professor of Economics & Personnel Management |
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Steven Benjamin Webb |
1978 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Susan I Ranney |
1983 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Susanto Basu |
1992 - 2005 | Professor of Economics |
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Tayfun Oguz Sonmez |
1995 - 2000 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Thomas E Weisskopf |
1972 - 2010 |
Professor of Economics Professor of Residential College |
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W.H. Locke Anderson |
1960 - 1988 | Professor of Economics |
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Warren C. Whatley |
1981 - 2015 | Professor of Economics |
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Warren Lounsbury Smith |
1957 - 1972 |
Professor of Economics Chair Department of Economics |
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Wilbur Pere Calhoun |
1915 - 1923 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Willard G. Manning |
1988 - 1991 | Professor of Economics, Health Services Management and Policy |
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William Andrew Paton |
1916 - 1959 |
E.F. Gay University Professor of Accounting Professor of Accounting |
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William B. Neenan |
1964 - 1980 | Professor of Economics, Social Work |
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William B. Palmer |
1930 - 1975 | Professor of Economics |
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William G. Shepherd |
1963 - 1986 | Professor of Economics |
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William Haber |
1936 - 1971 |
Professor of Economics Dean of Literature, Science, and the Arts |
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William S. Krasker |
1979 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Wolfgang F. Stolper |
1949 - 1982 | Professor of Economics |
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Yoonseok Lee |
2006 - 2013 | Assistant Professor of Economics |
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Yusufcan Masatlioglu |
2005 - 2016 | Associate Professor of Economics |
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Zenas Clark Dickinson |
1923 - 1959 | Professor of Economics |