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Charles F. Roos, 1901-1958.

Portrait of C.F. Roos from Econometrica

Mathematician, statistician and occasional economist. 

Trained at Rice, Charles Frederick Roos was a professor of mathematics at Cornell, from 1928 until 1931, during which he worked on mathematical economics, along the lines of Henry L Moore.

Charles F. Roos was the first research director of the Cowles Commission from 1934 to 1937, during its period at Colorado Springs.   He would also help found the Econometric Society.

Although he remained involved with the society, Roos left academic research to join private business research at the Institute of Applied Economics in 1937.

 

  

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Major works of Charles F. Roos

  • "A Mathematical Theory of Competition", 1925, American Journal of Mathematics.
  • "A Dynamical Theory of Economics", 1927, JPE
  • "Dynamical Economics", 1927 Proceedings of NAS.
  • "Generalized Lagrange Problems in the Calculus of Variations, I & II", 1928-29, Trans AMS.
  • "A Mathematical Theory of Price and Production Fluctuations and Economic Crisis", 1930, JPE
  • "Theoretical Studies of Demand", 1934, Econometrica.
  • Dynamic Economics: theoretical and statistical studies of demand, production and prices, 1934 [cwls]
  • Money, Men and Machines, with W. Catchings, 1958.

 
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