Evsey D. Domar, 1914-1997

S-a nascut la Lodz, oras polonez care apartinea in acel moment Rusiei. A fost educat in  Manchuria de unde a emigrat in Statele Unite in 1936. 

A terminat studiile la UCLA in 1939, obtinand un titlu la Universitatea din Michigan in 1940 si doctoratul la Harvard in 1947. A fost profesor la Carnegie Institute of Technologie, la Universitatea din Chicago, la Universitatea John Hopkins si, din 1957 pana la sfarsitul vietii, la Massachussetts Institute of Technology.

A apartinut diferitor organizatii academice cum sunt  American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, si Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. A facut parte din comitetul executiv al American Economic Association 1962­65, unde ajunge sa fie vicepresedinte in 1970. A fost presedinte al Association for Comparative Economics. Domar a lucrat si pentru RAND Corp., Ford Foundation, Brookings Institution, National Science Foundation,  Batelle Memorial Institute si Institute for Defense Analysis. 

Evsey Domar a fost un important keynesist. Lucrarile sale se localizeaza pe trei campuri: istoria economica, economia comparativa si cresterea economica. In 1946 a inaintat ideea conform careia cresterea economica ar servi scaderii deficitului si datoriei publice. Recunoasterea sa se datoreaza, fara indoiala, considerarii drept coautor impreuna cu Roy Harrod, al modelului cresterii Harrod-Domar, un model ce analizeaza echilibrul pe termen lung in termeni keynesisti, chiar daca fiecare din ei a ajuns la acel punct de forma total independenta. Unul dintre elevii sai de la macroeconomie, R.W. Fogel, a obtinut premiul Nobel in Economie in 1993.

Lucrari ale lui Evsey D. Domar

• "The Burden of the Debt and the National Income", 1944, AER.
• "Proportional Income Taxation and Risk-Taking", with R. Musgrave, 1944.
• "Capital Expansion, Rate of Growth and Employment", 1946, Econometrica.
• "Expansion and Employment", 1947, AER.
• "The Problem of Capital Accumulation", 1948, AER.
• "Capital Accumulation and the End of Prosperity", 1949, Proceedings of Internat. Statistical Conference
• "The Effect of Foreign Investment on the Balance of Payments", 1950, AER.
• "A Theoretical Analysis of Economic Growth", 1952, AER.
• "Depreciation, Replacement and Growth", 1953, EJ.
• "The Case for Accelerated Depreciation", 1953, QJE.
• Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth, 1957.
• "On the Measurement of Technological Change", 1961, EJ.
• "The Soviet Collective Farm as a Producer Co-Operative", 1966, AER.
• "An Index-Number Tournament", 1967, QJE.
• "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A hypothesis", 1970, Journal of Economic History.
• "On The Optimal Compensation of a Socialist Manager", 1974, QJE.