George Nikolas Perazich

Background

George Nikolas Perazich was born April 20, 1905, Rezevici, Montenegro. Perazich became a naturalized American citizen in 1942.

Education

Perazich attended Yugoslav Naval Academy. Then, after his moving to the United States in 1927 at the age of 22, he studied at the University of California, where in 1931, he received a Bachelor of Science. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1937 to 1938, and the University of Buffalo from 1941 to 1942.

Career

From 1934 to 1935, George Perazich was a research assistant in economics at the University of California in Berkeley, and then, he became an engineer and economist at Work Projects Administration from 1935 to 1940. From 1940 to 1942, George was a research director of technology at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research to Advance and Serve. From 1942 to 1943, he was a project engineer at Western Electric in Buffalo, New York, and, director of industrial division at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Washington, from 1944 to 1947.

From 1947 to 1948, Perazich worked at the University of Chicago in Illinois as an associate professor of economics, and then, he was a consultant on economic technology from 1948 to 1954. At National Planning Association he was a senior analyst from 1954 to 1956. From 1960 to 1961, he held the position of consultant at Penn-Jersey Transportation Study, after that, he became an associate and then a director at Economic Associates from 1961 to 1978. From 1962 to 1964, George was a consultant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. From 1969 to 1973, he held the position of consultant on the industrialization of developing countries at the World Bank and United Nations. He also was a lecturer at the University of Maryland, George Washington University, and the Central University of Venezuela. Perazich also was a consultant to the government of Yugoslavia, as well as to U.S. missions in Algeria, New Zealand, Chile, Korea, Peru, Malaysia, India, Israel, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica.

Achievements

• George Perazich is known as a contributor of articles to publications, including Barron’s, Science, Food Engineering, and Industrial Research.

Works

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  • Economic Aspects of Atomic Power

    (Economists of the Cowles Commission of the University of ...)

    1950
  • Industrial Research and Changing Technology 1938
  • Mechanization in the cement industry 1939
  • Nuclear power and economic development in Israel 1957

Membership

Perazich was a member of the Economics Club and Engineering Society.

Personality

Apart from his maternal language George spoke and wrote English and Italian and had a reading knowledge of Spanish, French and Russian.

Connections

In 1933, Perazich married Amelia. They had two children: John and Michael.

Wife:

Amelia Perazich

Son:

John Perazich

Son:

Michael Perazich