Nationality United States Fields Econometrics Role Economist | Name Arthur Goldberger | |
Born November 20, 1930 ( 1930-11-20 ) Brooklyn, New York Institution University of Wisconsin–Madison Alma mater University of Michigan (PhD)
NYU (B.S.) Influences Lawrence Klein
Sydney Hook Died December 11, 2009, Madison, Wisconsin, United States Education University of Michigan (1958) Books A course in econometrics, Introductory econometrics Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Influenced Jan Kmenta, Charles F. Manski, P. A. V. B. Swamy | ||
School or tradition Neoclassical economics | ||
Arthur Stanley Goldberger (November 20, 1930 – December 11, 2009) was an econometrician and an economist. He worked with Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein on the development of the Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic model at the University of Michigan. He died at the age of 79.
He spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he helped build the Department of Economics. He wrote classic graduate and undergraduate econometrics textbooks, including Econometric Theory (1964), A Course in Econometrics (1991) and Introductory Econometrics (1998). Among his many accomplishments, he published a number of articles critically evaluating the literature on the heritability of IQ and other behavioral traits.
In 1968 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.