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Martin Bronfenbrenner, 1914-1997

Martin Bronfenbrenner had his undergraduate training at Washington University (St. Louis) and proceeded to obtain a Ph.D. from University of Chicago, where he worked under the direction of Paul Douglas.  During World War II, Bonfenbrenner learnt Japanese in order to translate captured documents and  interrogate prisoners of war.  Thus began his long association with Japan, where he held joint academic appointments for much of his career.  

In 1947, Bronfenner took an appointment at Wisconsin and, after brief interludes at Michigan State and Minnesota, took up a position at Carnegie-Mellon.  In 1971, he took a position at Duke University -- both in the economics and Japanese history departments.  In 1984, he moved to Japan and took up a position as Professor of Economics at Aoyuma Gakuin University in Tokyo.

 

  

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Major Works of Martin Bronfenbrenner

  • "The Economics of Collective Bargaining", 1939, QJE
  • "Cross-Section Studies in the Cobb-Douglas Function" with P.H. Douglas, 1939, JPE
  • "The Cobb-Douglas Function and Trade-Union Policy", 1939, AER
  • "Applications of the Discontinuous Oligopoly Demand Curve", 1940, AER
  • "The Keynesian Equations and the Balance of Payments", 1940, RES
  • "Diminishing Returns in Federal Taxation?", 1942, JPE
  • "The Role of Money in Equilibrium Capital Theory", 1943, Econometrica
  • "Production Functions: Cobb-Douglas, Interfirm, Intrafirm", 1944, Econometrica
  • "Some Fundamentals in Liquidity Theory", 1945, QJE
  • "The Dilemma of Liberal Economics", 1946, JPE
  • "Sales Taxation and the Mints Plan", 1947 REStat
  • "Price Control under Imperfect Competition", 1947, AER
  • "Four Positions on Japanese Finance", 1950, JPE
  • "Contemporary American Thought", 1950, AJES
  • "A Loan Ratio for Inflation Control", 1951, JPE
  • "Contemporary Economics Resurveyed", 1953, JPE
  • "The Incidence of Collective Bargaining", 1954, AER
  • "Changing Fashions in Philosopher-Salesmen", 1954, AER
  • "A Modest Proposal for Surplus Disposal", 1955, AER
  • "Study in Redistribution and Consumption" with T. Yamane and C. H. Lee, 1955, AER
  • "The Appeal of Confiscation in Economic Development", 1955, Econ Dev Cultural Change
  • "The State of Japanese Economics", 1956, AER
  • "Potential Monopsony in Labor Markets", 1956, ILRR
  • "Contribution to the Aggregative Theory of Wages", 1956, JPE
  • "A Reformulation of Naive Profit Theory", 1960, SEJ
  • "A Note on Relative Shares and the Elasticity of Substitution", 1960, JPE
  • "Liquidity Functions in the American Economy", with T. Mayer, 1960, Econometrica
  • "Statistical Tests of Rival Monetary Rules", 1961, JPE
  • "Notes on the Elasticity of Derived Demand", 1961, Oxford EP
  • Academic Encounter: The American University in Japan and Korea, 1961
  • "Observations on the "Chicago School(s)", 1962, JPE
  • "Balm for the Visiting Economist", 1963, JPE
  • "Survey of Inflation Theory", with F.D. Holzman, 1963, AER
  • "Rejoinder to Professor Eisner", 1963, Econometrica
  • "Notes on Marxian Economics in the United States", 1964, AER 
  • "Das Kapital for the Modern Man", 1965, Science and Society
  • "Paul Baran: An Appreciation", 1966, JPE
  • "Trends, Cycles, and Fads in Economic Writing", 1966, AER
  • "Marxian Influences in "Bourgeois" Economics", 1967, AER
  • "Radical Economics in America: a 1970 survey", 1970, JEL
  • Is The Business Cycle Obsolete?, 1970
  • Income Distribution Theory, 1971.
  • "The Structure of Revolutions in Economic Thought", 1971, HOPE
  • "Samuelson, Marx, and Their Latest Critics", 1973, JEL
  • Tomioko Stories, 1976.
  • Macroeconomic Alternatives, 1979.
  • "Early American Leaders--Institutional and Critical Traditions", 1985, AER
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