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William Leonard Crum, 1894-1967.

Yale-trained mathematician and statistician at Harvard and later Berkeley.

Obtaining his Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale in 1917, and serving in WWI, William Leonard Crum returned to Yale as a lecturer in mathematics and statistics. William Leonard Crum hired in 1923 by Bullock and Persons for the Harvard Economic Service.  After Persons' departure in 1928 and the failure of the barometer to forecast the 1929 downturn, Crum was left holding the bag.  After the dissolution of the HES, Crum joined the economics department at Harvard in 1933. In 1936, Crum became director of the NBER.

Leonard Crum moved to University of California-Berkeley in 1948.

 

  

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Major Works of William Leonard Crum

  • "The Relations of a Commercial Bank to the Business Cycle", with H.B. Vanderblue, 1924, Harvard Business Review
  • An introduction to the methods of economic statistics, with A.C. Patton 1925 [hth]
  • "The Construction and Interpretation of the Harvard Index of Business Confidence", with C.J. Bullock and W.M. Persons, 1927 REStat
  • Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical, 1927
  • "The Harvard Index of Economic Conditions: Interpretations and Performance, 1919-1931", with C.J. Bullock, 1932 REStat
  • Corporate Earning Power in the Current Depression, 1935
  • Corporate Size and Earning Power, 1939
  • Fiscal Year Reporting for the Corporate Income Tax, 1956 [nber]

 
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