Background
REDER, Melvin Warren was born in 1919 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
REDER, Melvin Warren was born in 1919 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts University California Berkeley, 1939. Master of Arts University Chicago, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy Columbia University, 1946.
Instructor, Bryn Mawr College, 1942-1943, Brooklyn College, 1943-1945. Assistant Professor, Carnegie Institute, Institution Technology,
8. Association Professor, University Pennsylvania,
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Association Professor, Professor, Stanford University, 1949-1953, 1953-1971. Visiting Professor, London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1967. Research Association, National Bureau of Economie Research, New York, New York, United States of America, 1971-1974.
Distinguished Professor of Economics, Graduate Center, City University New York, 1971^4. Professor Urban and Labor Economics, Graduate School Business, University Chicago, since 1974. Editor, Journal of Business.
Editorial Board, J. Labor Research.
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Author: Studies in the Theory of Welfare Economics, 1947, Labor in a Growing Economy, 1957.
In graduate school and the first few years thereafter I concentrated upon economic theory, writing about welfare economics and macro and micro topics. In the late 1940s, my primary focus shifted to labour economics where it since has remained, despite occasional and continuing flirtations with other research areas. I have always interpreted labour economics broadly to include the interface of trade union wage behaviour with monetary-fiscal policy (Article No.
1 above), the theory of income distribution among factor shares (Article No. 3 above) and among individuals (Article No. 6), the theory of wage structure (Article No.
2), the effects of immigration (Article No. 5) and the analysis of strikes (Article No. 9). So interpreted, labour economics continues to be the centre of my professional interest.
However, I have also worked in a number of other branches of the subject: medical economics (Article No. 7); and the methodology and history of economic thought (Article No.