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Gordon, Robert James was born on September 3, 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Aaron and Margaret (Shaughnessy) Gordon.
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Gordon, Robert James was born on September 3, 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Aaron and Margaret (Shaughnessy) Gordon.
Bachelor of Arts Harvard University, 1962. Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts University Oxford, 1964, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1967.
Assistant professor economics Harvard University, 1967-1968. Assistant professor University Chicago, 1968-1973. Professor economics Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1973, Stanley G. Harris professor social science, since 1987, chair economics department, 1992-1996.
Research associate National Bureau Econ Research, since 1968. Member Brookings Panel Economic Activity, 1970-2007. Co-chairman International Seminar Macroecons., 1978-1994.
Member executive committee Conference Research, Income and Wealth, 1978-1983. Member panel review productivity measures National Academy of Sciences, 1977-1979. Consultant board governors Federal Reserve Systems, 1973-1983, United States Department Treasury, 1967-1980, United States Congressional Budget Office, 1996-2010, United States Bureau Economic Analysis, since 1999.
Member National Commission on Consumer Price Index, 1995-1997. Member tech panel, Society Security Administration, 2003-2007.
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Author: Macroeconomics, 1978, 11th edition, 2009, Milton Friedman's Monetary Framework, 1974, Challenges to Interdependent Economies, 1979, The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change, 1986, The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices, 1990, International Volatility and Economic Growth, 1991, The Economics of New Goods, 1997, Inflation, Unemployment and Productivity, 2003. Editor Journal Political Economy, 1970-1973.
Demonstrated that inflation depends both on demand pressure and supply shocks and that excess demand stems from pressures on the central bank to accommodate wage push, supply shocks and fiscal deficits. Have called attention to the greater inertia of inflation in the postwar United States than in either the prewar United States or in other postwar countries (especially United Kingdom and Japan). Have questioned conventional approaches to the econometric specification of fixed in
vestment and money demand functions and suggested a new treatment of each topic.
Work on price measurement for durable goods has developed new techniques to adjust for improvements in performance and energy efficiency, as well as 20,000 new data observations that yield radically different estimates of changes in aggregate prices and productivity, and in the industry allocation of productivity gains.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Econometric Society (treasurer 1975—2005). Member American Economic Association (board editors 1975-1977, member executive committee 1981-1983), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Julie S. Peyton, June 22, 1963.