Jesse William Markham

Background

Markham, Jesse William was born on April 21, 1916 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of John James and Edith (Luttrell) Markham.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Richmond, 1941. Postgraduate, Johns Hopkins University, 1942. Postgraduate, United States Foreign Service School, 1945.

Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1949.

Career

Accountant, East.I. duPont de Nemours Company, Richmond, 1935-1938. Teaching fellow Harvard University, 1946-1948. Assistant professor Vanderbilt University, 1948-1952, associate professor, 1952-1953.

Chief economistFTC, Washington, 1953-1955.

Associate professor Princeton University, 1955-1957, professor economics, 1957-1968. Professor Harvard Graduate School Business Administration, 1968-1972, Charles Edward Wilson professor, 1972-1982, professor emeritus, 1982.

Professor Harvard University Extension Superior vena cava syndrome, 1984. Visiting professor Columbia University, 1958.

Ford Foundation visiting professor Harvard Graduate School Business Administration, 1965-1966.

Research professor Law and Economics Center, Emory University, 1982-1984. Research staff, member board editors Patent Trademark Copyright Research Institute, George Washington University, 1955-1970. Economics editor Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961-1971.

United States delegate commission experts on business practices European Productivity Agency, Organization of European Economic Cooperation, 1956, 57, 58, 59, 61.

Visiting professor Harvard University, 1961-1962. Director Ford Foundation Seminar Region II, 1961.

Advising committee marketing to secretary commerce, 1967-1971. Member American Bar Association Commission to study Federal Trade Commission, 1969.

Delaware People to People Diplomacy Mission to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1989.

Active Boy Scouts American. Chairman Harvard Parents Committee, 1969-1972.

Achievements

• Jesse William Markham has been listed as a noteworthy economist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Baseball Economics and Public Policy

    (Treatise that was originally prepared as background infor...)

  • CONGLOMERATE ENTERPRISE AND PUBLIC POLICY

    (Boston 1972. 8vo., 218pp., index. Owner signed on front f...)

  • Competition in the rayon industry (Harvard University series on competition in American industry)
  • Competition in the Rayon Industry.
  • Fertilizer Industry: Study of an Imperfect Market

Views

As an admiring student of Joseph Schumpeter, I have tried in my earlier published works to synthesise his concepts of innova- tional activity and the dynamics of creative destruction on the one hand and static models of competition on the other. My Competition in the Rayon Industry and The Fertilizer Industry were attempts to effect this type of synthesis through the instrument of specific industry studies. Later I centred my attention more directly on the public policy implications of the structureconduct-performance model of industrial organisation, especially the extent of which business conduct could in a statistical sense be predicted from measures of market structure.

My conclusions on this matter in view of the available information at the time were summarised in article 6 above. As it became clearer to me that so many factors conditioned the structureconduct relationship, I directed my research toward the measurable importance of these factors, especially the technological horizon, the opportunity for product innovation, and what might broadly be defined as creative competitive strategies. A book-length manuscript setting forth this analysis is near completion, and given the tentative title Oligopolistic Competition: Studies in Structure and Business Conduct.

Membership

Member American Bar Association Commission to study Federal Trade Commission, 1969. Delaware People to People Diplomacy Mission to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1989. Served as Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, World World War World World War II Ford Foundation research professor, 1958-1959.

Member American Economics Association, United States Chamber of Commerce (economics policy committee), Harvard.

Member Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• 022 Microeconomic Theory. 610 Industrial Organisation and Public Policy: 620 Economics of Technical Change.

Connections

Married Penelope Jane Anton, October 15, 1944. Children: Elizabeth Anton Markham McLean, John James, Jesse William.

Father:

John James Markham

Mother:

Edith (Luttrell) Markham

Spouse:

Penelope Jane Anton

child:

Elizabeth Anton Markham McLean Markham

child:

Jesse William Markham

child:

John James Markham