Abba Lerner
Abraham "Abba" Ptachya Lerner was a Russian-born American-British economist.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Novoselytsia
- Educated at
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Awards
- 🏆 Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association🏆 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Friedrich Hayek🎓 Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Franco Modigliani📖 Bixio Barenco📖 Seung Chul Ahn
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Trending topics shown first"What is scarce is money. The lack of money to spend on goods is what keeps the unemployed resources from producing more goods. Work, moreover, instead of being a curse, is desired more than anything e…"
"The central idea is that government fiscal policy, its spending and taxing, its borrowing and repayment of loans, its issue of new money and withdrawal of money, shall be undertaken with an eye only t…"
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Timeline
1903
Born
Birth1982
Died
Death
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