Economistas

James S. Duesenberry ( 1918-2009 )

James S. Duesenberry, nacido en Princeton, WV, estudió y obtuvo el doctorado en la Universidad de Michigan. Fue profesor en Harvard y el MIT. Actualmente es profesor emérito de Dinero y Banca en el Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Harvard.

En 1949 propuso una función de consumo de tipo keynesiano argumentando que el comportamiento de consumo crea hábito y proponiendo que los individuos aumentan su consumo al aumentar las rentas pero que tienen dificultades para reducir su consumo en la misma proporción cuando la renta disminuye.

Posteriormente, en 1958, y siguiendo un razonamiento similar, hace una contribución al acelerador y la teoría keynesiana de los ciclos. Para Duesenberry, la inversión depende de los niveles históricos alcanzados por la renta y el capital.

Falleció el 5 de octubre de 2009.

Curriculum Vitae

Nombre: James Stemble Duesenberry
Nacimiento: 18 de julio de 1918

Titulaciones

A.B., 1939, University of Michigan
A.M., 1941, University of Michigan
Ph.D., 1948, University of Michigan

Puestos Académicos

• 1939-1941 Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan
• 1941 Research Fellow, Social Science Research Council
• 1942-1945 U.S. Air Force
• 1946 Instructor, M.I.T.
• 1946-1948 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
• 1948-1953 Assistant Professor, Harvard University
• 1953 Associate Professor, Harvard University
• 1954-1955 Fulbright Fellow, Cambridge University
• 1955-1989 Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• 1958-1959 Ford Research Professor
• 1966-1968 Member of President's Council of Economic Advisers
• 1969-1974 Chairman, Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• 1972-1977 Chairman, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• 1981-Present Consultant, Harvard Institute for International Development en Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Gambia
• 1984 Visiting Professor, University of Kobe, Japan
• 1989- Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• 1989 Visiting Professor, Southwest University of Finance and Economic, ChengDu, Sichuan, China
• 1989- Consultant, Harvard Institute for International Development

OBRAS

• "Income-Consumption Relations and their Implications", 1948, in Metzler, editor, Income, Employment and Public Policy.
• Income, Saving and the Theory of Consumer Behavior, 1949.
• "The Mechanics of Inflation", 1950, REStat.
• "The Methodological Basis of Economic Theory", 1954, REStat
• Business Cycles and Economic Growth, 1958.
• "Underlying Factors in the Post-War Inflation",1959, in Myers, editor, Wages, Prices, Profits and Productivity
• Cases and Problems in Economics, 1960.
• "A Simulation of the U.S. Economy in Recession", with O. Eckstein and G. Fromm, 1960, Econometrica
• "A Process Approach to Flow-of-Funds Analysis", 1962, in Flow-of-Funds Approach to Social Accounting
• "The Portfolio Approach to the Demand for Money and Other Assets", 1963, REStat
• The Brookings Quarterly Econometric Model of the United States, with L. Klein and G. Fromm, 1965
• Money and Credit: Impact and control, 1967.
• "Alternatives to Monetary Policy", 1974, AER
• Money, Banking and the Economy, with T. Mayer, and R.Z. Aliber, 1984?

Coordenadas actuales de Duesenberry

Dirección de su oficina:
Harvard University
Department of Economics,
Littauer 235
Persona de contacto: Yvonne Zinfon

Telefonos:
(617) 495-5077
(617) 495-2151
Fax : (617) 495-7730

email:
duesenb@fas.harvard.edu
yzinfon@harvard.edu