Background
Fisher, Walter Dummer was born on September 17, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter Taylor and Katharine (Dummer) Fisher.
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Fisher, Walter Dummer was born on September 17, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter Taylor and Katharine (Dummer) Fisher.
AB, Harvard University, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1943.
Assistant economist, United States Surplus Marketing Administration, Washington, 1940-1942;
instructor economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1946-1948;
assistant professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1948-1951;
assistant professor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 1951-1954;
associate professor, Kansas State University, 1954-1957;
professor, Kansas State University, 1957-1967;
professor economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1967-1985;
professor emeritus, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1985-1995. Consultant Pullman Bank, Chicago, 1951-1953, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California,1958-1962. Visiting professor U. Louvain, Belgium, 1971-1972.
Director National Bureau Economics Research, New York City, 1967-1983.
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(Baltimore 1969 first edition Hopkins. Hardcover. Octavo.,...)
Served to captain United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Fellow Econometric Society. Member American Statistical Association.
Married Marjorie Smith, December 21, 1948. Children: Andrew, Carol, Dorothy.