Robert Eugene Kuenne

Background

Kuenne, Robert Eugene was born on January 29, 1924 in St. Louis. Son of Edward Sebastian and Margaret (Yochum) Kuenne.

Education

Student, Harris Junior College, St. Louis, 1942. Bachelor of Journalism, University Missouri, 1947. AB, Washington University, St. Louis, 1948.

A.M., Washington University, St. Louis, 1949. A.M., Harvard, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Umea University, 1985.

Career

Assistant professor economics University Virginia, 1955. Member faculty Princeton (New Jersey) University, from 1956, associate professor, 1960-1969, professor economics, from 1969. Consultant United States Naval War College, 1954, 55, Institute Defense Analyses, Arlington, Virginia, 1968–2001, Institute for Energy Analysis, Washington, 1978-1982.

Visiting professor military systems analysis United States Army War College, 1967-1985. Member science and management advisory committee United States Army Computer Systems Command.

Achievements

• Oliver Ellsworth Bicentennial Preceptor, Princeton University, 1957-1960. Senior Fellow, Council Humanities, Princeton University, 1962-1965. Research Fellow, National Institute, Institution Health, 1965-1969.
  
  Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellow,
  
  6. Member, Scientific and Management Advisory Committee, United States Army Computer Systems Command, 1971-1974.

Works

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  • Rivalrous Consonance: Theory of General Oligopolistic Equilibrium (Contributions to Economic Analysis)

    (The book is an attempt to construct frameworks for the an...)

  • Price and Nonprice Rivalry in Oligopoly: The Integrated Battleground

    (The theory of price and quality decision making in indust...)

  • The Medieval Village Economy

    ( Robert Townsend has made path-breaking contributions to...)

  • Economic Justice in American Society (Princeton Legacy Library)

    ( America is entering a new age of economic discord, warn...)

  • The attack submarine;: A study in strategy,

    (Examines the strategies of submarine deployment in World ...)

  • The Polaris Missile Strike A General Economic Systems Analysis

    (1966 1st Ohio State University. Hardcover. Octavo, 434pp....)

  • The Economics of Oligopolistic Competition: Price and Non-price Rivalry (Advances in Theoretical & Applied Economics)

    (Book by Kuenne, Robert E.)

  • Monopolistic competition and general equilibrium theory (Harvard economic studies)

    (used book condition good)

  • The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium

    (1)

  • General Equilibrium Economics: Space, Time and Money

    (1)

  • The Polaris missile strike : a general economic systems analysis,
  • Monopolistic competition theory: studies in impact : essays in honor of Edward H. Chamberlin
  • Microeconomic theory of the market mechanism: A general equilibrium approach (Macmillan series in economics)
  • Microeconomic Theory of the Market Mechanism A General Equilibrium Approach
  • Monopolistic Competition and General Equilibrium Theory **Harvard Economics Study Vol. LXVII**
  • [(Economic Exchange and Social Organization: The Edgeworthian Foundations of General Equilibrium Theory )] [Author: Robert P. Gilles] [Sep-1996]
  • Monopolistic Competition and General Equilibrium Theory **Harvard Economics Stud

• Other Work

  • Author: The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium, 1963, The Attack Submarine: A Study in Strategy, 1965, The Polaris Missile Strike: A General Economic Systems Analysis, 1966, Monopolistic Competition Theory: Studies in Impact, 1967, Microeconomic Theory of the Market Mechanism, 1968, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, 1971, Rivalrous Consonance, 1986, Economics of Oligopolistic Competition, 1992, General Equilibrium Economics, 1991, Economic Justice in American Society, 1993, Price and Nonprice Rivalry in Oligopoly: The Integrated Battleground, 1999.

Views

Over my career my interests have drawn me toward the large-scale interdependent microeconomic system in both my theoretical and applied research. That interest began in graduate student days by a fascination with the Walrasian general equilibrium structure when that approach received little attention in Anglo-American economics. I feel that my Theory of General Economic Equilibrium and some prior articles may have played some small role in the

popularity now enjoyed by general as opposed to partial frameworks.

From the beginning, however, I shared with most scholars the essential barrenness of the Walrasian model in its inability to yield qualitative theorems.

This led me to input-output analysis as one operational alternative for the derivation of theorems, but its lack of true economic dimension did not completely satisfy my theoretical conscience.

The modern work in general equilibrium theory that began in the 1950s and exploited point-set topology and real analysis has led the field in precisely the wrong directions. Its misguided fascination with the ‘newer’ mathematical techniques has led the field to concerns of secondary and tertiary economic significance and permitted it, by instilling it with a misplaced sense of achievement in deriving existence or uniqueness proofs, to ignore its central deficiencies. It has reinforced the attachment of modelling to purely competitive market structures despite universal recognition of the inappropriateness of that assumption, and it has actually reduced the capability of general economic systems to yield realistically worthwhile theorems.

My current research continues, therefore, to pursue paths that will make micro-general economic analysis operationally useful.

I have recently completed work which attempts to construct an operational approach to general oligopolistic equilibrium, using nonlinear programming.

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Member Princeton Club (New York City).

Connections

Married Janet Lawrence Brown, September 7, 1957. Children: Christopher Brian, Carolyn Leigh Jeppsen.

Father:

Edward Sebastian Kuenne

Mother:

Margaret (Yochum) Kuenne

Spouse:

Janet Lawrence Brown

child:

Christopher Brian Kuenne

child:

Carolyn Leigh Jeppsen Kuenne