Background
Edwin Dale Jr. was born in September 1923, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Contemporary Economics
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Edwin L. Dale
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Edwin graduated from Yale.
Career
Dale served as a budget spokesperson in the Reagan administration and was responsible for clearly explaining the complexities of supply-side economics. Economists also gave Dale credit for making it clear that inflation was influenced by services as well as goods. Edwin served in World War II and worked for several newspapers. Dale's first newspaper job was with The Worcester Evening Gazette in Massachusetts in 1947 and he was an economics reporter for The New York Herald Tribune before joining The Times. Dale worked for the paper between 1955 to 1976. In 1968, he assisted on an important scoop on the escalation of the war in Vietnam. Dale died of cancer on May 10, 1999, in Washington, DC.
Achievements
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Dale contributed to an important story on the escalation of the war in Vietnam for the New York Times. He was credited with being one of the first to establish that the roots of inflation lay as much in the service sector as in the pricing of goods. He came to this insight in the 1950s and helped bring it to public awareness.
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Personality
Dale was considered by professional economists to be as versed in economics as any competent economist.
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''One budget director commented to me after an interview that this man Dale was qualified to be budget director.'' - Joseph Laitin
''It was pretty wild and woolly when I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve and Dale was a voice of calm, common sense during that period.'' - Paul A. Volcker, the economist
Connections
Dale was married to Mary Todd Hastings from 1950 until her death in 1983. In addition to Mrs. Dale, he is survived by a stepdaughter, Rosalind C. Dujardin of Bermuda; a stepson, Daniel C. Cross of Washington, and six step-grandchildren.
