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PRYOR, Frederic LeRoy was born in 1933 in Owosso, Michigan, United States of America.
(Frederic L. Pryor uses the concept of structural complexi...)
Frederic L. Pryor uses the concept of structural complexity to show how changes in the population, the labor force, the structure of industry, the financial system, foreign and domestic trade, and the government sector are related to the same general trend in the U.S. economic system over the past forty years and in the coming twenty years. The author investigates the impact of these changes on the functioning of the system, exploring such matters as the long-term rising unemployment rate, the alleged increasing volatility of the economy, the altering degree of competition, and the evolving economic role of the government.
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Drawing from economics, anthropology, statistics, and history to examine large samples of foraging (hunting, gathering and fishing), agricultural and industrial societies, Frederic L. Pryor isolates their economic systems. He explores why certain societies or nations have one system rather than another, examines the impact of these economic systems on the societies' welfare and studies their development and changes. The book presents a broad framework for understanding economic systems and provides considerable evidence on both preindustrial and industrial systems.
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PRYOR, Frederic LeRoy was born in 1933 in Owosso, Michigan, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts (Chemistry) Oberlin College, 1955. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy Yale University, 1957, 1962.
Assistant Professor of Economics, University Michigan, 1955-1957. Research Economics, Yale University, 1957-1962. Assistant Professor, Association Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College, 1962-1974.
Visiting Professor, Universities, Indiana, 1969, California Berkeley, 1972-1973, Institute, Institution International Economics, Geneva, 1977-1978, 1982, Paris, 1981. Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America,
. Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Economics, 1976-1984.
(Drawing from economics, anthropology, statistics, and his...)
(Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industria...)
(Frederic L. Pryor uses the concept of structural complexi...)
(Frederic L. Pryor uses the concept of structural complexi...)
Author: The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collective Agriculture, 1992, Economic Evolution and Structure, 1995, The Future of the United States Capitalism, 2002, Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural and Industrial Societies, 2005, Capitalism Reassessed. Co-author: Who's Not Working and Why, 1999.
Most of my work has focussed on two questions: What are the causal forces underlying the origins and development of different economic institutions and systems? What is the impact of different economic institutions on the performance of the economy? After carrying out a case study of foreign trade in East Europe, I believed that these two questions could be approached more fruitfully by directly comparing societies with different economic systems. In my next three books I dealt respectively with consumption, production, and distribution and tried to test empirically a variety of hypotheses by means of such inter-societal or international comparisons. In recent years my scholarly interests have broadened: I have tried to analyse a series of questions about economic institutions and systems in both industrial and nonindustrial economies and to deal with issues that have not only economic but important social and political aspects as well.
Among other things this means that much of my recent work falls in the areas of economic development and economic history.
Trustee Tougoloo College, 1981-2008.
Married Zora Prochazka, March 26, 1964. 1 child, Daniel.