Education
He received his Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in economics from the University of Chicago.
He received his Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in economics from the University of Chicago.
From 1951 to 1963, he was a research economist at the Research and Development Corporation, where he and Charles J. Hitch developed the Planning Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS), which was first implemented by the United States. Department of Defense in 1961. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson extended adoption of PPBS to all executive departments. He was a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles until 1968, and was the Paul Goodloe Macintire professor of economics at the University of Virginia until his retirement in 1988.
