Peter Temin
Peter Temin was an American economist and economic historian, who served as the Gray Professor of Economics at MIT, where he was once the head of the Economics Department.
Background
- Born in
- Philadelphia
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySwarthmore College
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Charles Poor Kindleberger
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Christina Romer📖 Donald Ratajczak📖 Elise Brezis📖 Stephen DeCanio
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1937
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Died
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