Background
Joe S. Bain was born in Spokane, Washington, July 4, 1912.
Joe S. Bain was born in Spokane, Washington, July 4, 1912.
After graduating in 1935, education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in 1940 he received his doctorate at Harvard (under the direction of Joseph Schumpeter).
The rest of his career is connected with the University of California, Berkeley. In 1982 he became an honorary member of the American Economic Association.