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American economist (1878–1937)
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Warren Milton Persons |
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| Born | 1878 |
| Died | October 11, 1937 (aged 58–59) |
| Education | University of Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Spouse | Irmagarde Keller |
Warren M. Persons (1878–1937) was an American economist. He was an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College, and a professor of economics at Colorado College and Harvard University. He was the President of the American Statistical Association in 1923.
Warren M. Persons was born in 1878.[1] He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1899, and he earned a PhD in economics in 1916.[2]
Persons taught economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906.[2] He was an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College from 1906 to 1910.[2] He was a professor of economics at Colorado College from 1913 to 1918, and at Harvard University from 1918 to 1928.[2] He was also the editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics.[2]
Persons became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1914, and its president in 1923.[2]
Personal life and death
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Persons married Irmagarde Keller in 1906.[2] He fell ill with tuberculosis in 1910 and survived in 1913.[2]
Persons died on October 11, 1937.[1][2]
- Persons, Warren M. (1919). Indices of General Business Conditions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Committee on Economic research. OCLCÂ 917724375.
- Persons, Warren M. (1928). The Construction of Index Numbers. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Friedman, Walter A. (2014). “Chapter 4: C.J. Bullock and Warren Persons: The Harvard ABC Chart. “The Statistician… attempts to find an analogy existing in an orderly universe”“. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 128–165. ISBN 9780691159119. OCLC 858778194.
- “Warren M. Persons”. JSTOR.
