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Johnson, David Gale was born on July 10, 1916 in Vinton, Iowa, United States. Son of Albert D. and Myra Jane (Reed) Johnson.
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Professor Johnson of the University of Chicago has made a careful analysis of conflicts between some American farm policies and the foreign trade policies pursued by our government. He proposes an alternative farm policy that will overcome these conflicts without damaging American agriculture. D. Gale Johnson, the author, was one of the world's most eminent researchers of agricultural and development economics. He worked on important policy issues in both agricultural economics and development economics. He combined careful attention to data with a reliance on economic theory to gain insights into important real world problems. When D. Gale Johnson traveled in Asia, he was greeted by heads of state as 'their teacher' the man who was the world's foremost figure in agriculture policy and economic development.
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Johnson, David Gale was born on July 10, 1916 in Vinton, Iowa, United States. Son of Albert D. and Myra Jane (Reed) Johnson.
Bachelor of Science, Iowa State College, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, Iowa State College, 1945. Master of Science, University Wisconsin, 1939.
Student, University Chicago, 1941. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Iowa State University, 1995.
Research associate Iowa State College, 1941-1942, assistant professor economics, 1942-1944. With department economics University Chicago, 1944—2003, research associate to associate professor, 1944-1954, professor, 1954—1986, emeritus professor, 1986—2003, associate dean division social science, 1957-1960, dean, 1960-1970, chairman department economics, 1971-1975, 80-84, acting director library, 1971-1972, director Office Economic Analysis, 1975-1980, vice president, dean of faculties, 1975, provost, 1976-1980. Acting director William Benton Fellowship in Broadcast Journalism, 1991-1992.
Director Center East Asian Studies, 1994-1998. Economist OPA, 1942, Department State, 1946, Department Army, 1948. Member food advisory committee Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, 1974-1976.
Consultant Tennessee Valley Authority and Rand Corporation, Agency for International Development, 1962-1968. President National Opinion Research Center, 1962-1975, 79-85. Agricultural adviser Office of President's Special Republican for Trade Negotiations, 1963-1964.
Member President's National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber, 1965-1967. Advisory board Policy Planning Council State Department, 1967-1969, National Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, 1970-1972. Member steering committee President's Food and Nutrition Study, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-1977.
Chairman board directors University Savings and Loan Association, 1986-1988, chairman executive committee, 1988-1992. Member committee Economic Education and Research in China, 1984-1994. Co-chairman working group on population growth and economic development National Academy of Sciences, 1984-1986, chairman delegation to Bulgaria, 1991.
Team leader World Bank Food Sector Reform Mission to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Republics, 1991-1992. Consultant European Bank for Reconstrn. and Development, 1993. Member international advisory committee China Center for Economic Research Peking University, since 1995.
Honorary professor Beijing University, 1999.
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Author: Forward Prices for Agriculture, 1947, Agriculture and Trade: A Study of Inconsistent Policies, 1950, (with Robert Gustafson) Grain Yields and the American Food Supply, 1962, The Struggle Against World Hunger, 1967, World Agriculture in Disarray, 1973, second edition, 1991, World Food Problems and Prospects, 1975, (with Karen Brooks) Prospects for Soviet Agriculture in the 1980's, 1983, The People's Republic of China: 1978-1990, 1990, Long-Term Agricultural Policies for Central Europe, 1996. Editor Economic Development and Cultural Change, since 1986.
My first work was an analysis of the effects of agricultural price policies upon resource use and income distribution. I showed that price policies that reduced risk and uncertainty could increase productivity in agriculture. If prices were set above equilibrium levels, the distribution of income became more unequal within agriculture.
Subsequent work showed that high farm prices transferred income from low-income urban consumers to high-income rural families. Related work was my analysis of the inconsist-
encies between the domestic farm policies of the industrial countries and liberal trade policies that most espoused. My work on share cropping showed that resource efficiency could be and probably was achieved under this form of tenure, contrary to widely held views.
I analysed the long-term trends in world supply and demand for food and showed that the trend was for lower real prices of the cereals, the major source of calories for low-income people.
In that work I found that much of the price variability in international markets for farm products resulted from numerous governments stabilising their domestic farm and consumer prices by varying net trade and forcing others to bear the costs of their variability. My students and I undertook research on optimal grain reserves and showed that if there were free trade in the world, there would be little need for reserve stocks. The general subject of my book World Agriculture in Disarray (1973) has guided much of my research during the past decade.
In particular, I have shown that high levels of price supports are insufficient to have a long-run effect upon the return to farm labour. Alternative employment opportunities and the amount of human capital are the primary determinants of labour returns in agriculture.
Board directors Wm. Benton Foundation, 1980-1992. President Southeast Chicago Commission, 1980-2002. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Agricultural Economics Association.
Member National Academy of Sciences, Social Science Research Council (director 1953-1956), American Economic Association (president-elect 1998, president 1999), American Farm Economic Association (president 1964-1965), Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta.
Married Helen Wallace (deceased 1990), August 10, 1938. Children: David Wallace, Kay Annual.