Background
Lampman was born on September 25, 1920 in Plover, Wisconsin, United States of America.
(Social Welfare Spending: Accounting For Changes From 1950...)
Social Welfare Spending: Accounting For Changes From 1950 To 1978, by Lampman, Robert J.
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Lampman was born on September 25, 1920 in Plover, Wisconsin, United States of America.
Lampman completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin in 1942. After his military service as an air navigator in the U.S. Navy, he returned to the University of Wisconsin to pursue a graduate degree in economics, completing a Ph.D. in 1950.
A specialist in measuring income distribution, Lampman taught economics at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1948 until 1958, when he returned to the University of Wisconsin in Madison as a professor of economics. While Lampman remained a Wisconsin faculty member for the duration of his academic career, he also served as visiting professor at such institutions as the University of the Philippines and Cornell University. Lampman wrote and edited books and articles on issues of income, poverty, and social welfare. His written works include such studies as The Low Income Population and Economic Growth (1959), The Share of Top Wealth-Holders in National Wealth, 1922-1956 (1962), and Ends and Means of Reducing Income Poverty (1971).
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Quotations:
"My graduate training was in labour economics with a minor in law. However, I soon drifted into the study of income and wealth distributions and of policies related thereto. This drift led me to work in social accounting and what I call economics of health, education and welfare."
"A considerable part of what I have written could be classified as policy analysis and is related to my advisory role with government agencies. Most of my writing relates to the United States, but some of it reflects a secondary and recurring interest in developing nations stemming from teaching in Lebanon and the Philippines."