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Arthur Robert Burns, 1895-1981.

 London-born Arthur Robert Burns was trained at the LSE, receiving his Ph.D. in 1928.  A.R. Burns married fellow economist Eveline M. Burns in 1922.

Arthur R. and Eveline Burns came to the United States in 1928, and Arthur joined the faculty of Columbia in1933. 

A.R. Burns was a prominent popularizer of the theories of imperfect competititon (esp. his 1936 book) in the US, re-casting the theories as a strain of the American Institutionalist School.  Milton Friedman would later refer to A.R. Burns as his principal mentor at Columbia.

(A.R. Burns is sometimes confused with fellow Columbia colleague Arthur F. Burns)

 

  

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Major Works of Arthur R. Burns

  • Money and Monetary Policy in Early Times, 1927. [hth]
  • The Economic World: A survey, with E. Burns, 1927 [hth]
  • "The Quantitative Study of Recent Economic Changes in the United States", 1930, WWA
  • "The Process of Industrial Concentration", 1933, QJE
  • "The First Phase of the National Industrial Recovery Act", 1934, Polit Science Quart
  • The Decline of Competition, 1936.
  • "Concentration of Production", 1943, Harvard Bus Rev
  • Comparative Economic Organization, 1955.
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Resources on Arthur R. Burns

  • A.R. Burns obituary in NY Times 1981
  • Online books page at Univ Pennsylvania
  • Eveline Burns at Wikipedia
  • Toward Social Security by Eveline Burns, 1936 [av]

 

 
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