Edward Fulton Denison

American economist

Edward Fulton Denison
Born	(1915-12-18)18 December 1915 Omaha, Nebraska
Died	23 October 1992(1992-10-23) (aged 76) Washington, D.C.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University
Spouse	Elsie Lightbown
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	George Washington University

Edward Fulton Denison (December 18, 1915, Omaha – October 23, 1992, Washington D.C.) was an American economist.^[1]^[2]^[3] He was a pioneer in the measurement of the United States gross national product^[1] and one of the founders of growth accounting.^[3]

Denison earned a bachelor's degree in economics in Oberlin College in 1936, a master's degree in Brown University in 1938, and a doctorate from Brown in 1941.^[1] In 1948, he became acting chief of the National Income Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.^[3] The next year, Edward also acted as Assistant Director and Chief Economist of the Office of Business Economics.^[1]^[3] In 1956 he left OBE to work for the Committee for Economic Development.^[3] From 1963, he served as a senior member of the Brookings Institution on economic research.^[1]^[3]

In 1966 Denison was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.^[4] He became a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association in 1981.^[5]

He married Elsie Lightbown. His daughter, Janet Howell has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992.^[6]

Selected works

Trends in American economic growth, 1929-1982 (1962), published on The Journal of Business
The Residual Factor and Economic Growth (Paris, 1962)
The Sources of Economic Growth in the United States & the Alternatives Before us (New York City, 1962), one that describes his theory mostly
Why growth rates differ; postwar experience in nine western countries (Washington D. C., 1967)
Accounting for United States economic growth, 1929-1969 (Washington D. C., 1974)
Accounting for slower economic growth : the United States in the 1970s (Washington D. C., 1979)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Lambert, Bruce (October 24, 1992), "E. F. Denison, Economist, 76; Devised G.N.P.", The New York Times.
^ "Brookings Institution Economist Edward F. Denison Dies at 77", The Washington Post, October 24, 1992, archived from the original on November 5, 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Kendrick, John W. (1993), "In Memoriam: Edward F. Denison, 1915–1992" (PDF), Review of Income and Wealth, 39 (1): 117–119, doi:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1993.tb00442.x.
^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-08-20.
^ Distinguished fellows, American Economic Association, retrieved 2010-12-30.
^ Lambert, Bruce (October 24, 1992). "E. F. Denison, Economist, 76; Devised G.N.P." The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-06-05.