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Pryor, Frederic L

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Personal name headingPryor, Frederic L.
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Associated placeNew Haven (Conn.) Swarthmore (Pa.)
LocatedNewtown Square (Pa.)
Birth date1933-04-23
Death date2019-09-02
Place of birthOwosso (Mich.)
Place of deathNewtown Square (Pa.)
Field of activityEconomics
AffiliationYale University
Swarthmore College
Profession or occupationEconomists
Found inHis The Communist foreign trade system, 1963.
His A guidebook to the comparative study of economic systems, c1985: CIP t.p. (Frederic L. Pryor) data sheet (b. 4-23-33)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (Ph.D.)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 12, 2019 (Frederic L. Pryor; died Sept. 2 [2019] at his home in Newtown Square, Pa. He was 86. In 1961, Dr. Pryor was completing his PhD dissertation in economics at Yale University. Frederic LeRoy Pryor was born April 23, 1933, in Owosso, Mich. Dr. Pryor graduated in 1955 from Oberlin College in Ohio, where he majored in chemistry. He received a master's degree in economics from Yale in 1957, then spent a good deal of time in Europe studying for his doctorate. Yale conferred his PhD in 1962, shortly after his return from captivity in Berlin [as an accused spy]. He taught at the University of Michigan and worked in research at Yale before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College in 1967. He published more than a dozen books and more than 100 scholarly papers, examining the economics of Eastern Europe, agriculture, income inequality and other subjects. He retired in 1998 but kept an office at Swarthmore for many years afterward)
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