Meltzer, Allan H

LC control no.	n 79059676
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Meltzer, Allan H. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1928-02-06
Death date	2017-05-08
Place of birth	Boston (Mass.)
Place of death	Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Field of activity	Economics Law
Affiliation	Carnegie-Mellon University Carnegie Institute of Technology Shadow Open Market Committee (U.S.) University of California, Los Angeles
Profession or occupation	Economists
Found in	His A study of the dealer market for Federal government securities, 1960. Theory, policy, institutions, 1983: CIP t.p. (Allan H. Meltzer) CIP data sheet (b. 2/6/28) His Keyne's monetary theory, 1988: t.p. (Allan H. Meltzer, univ. prof. and John M. Olin prof. of pol. econ. and pub. policy, Carnegie Mellon Univ.) t.p. verso (Brit. CIP hdg.: Meltzer, Allan H. (Allan Harold), 1928- ) Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (Professor, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 11, 2017 (Allan H. Meltzer, a distinguished economist and one of the country's leading experts on the Federal Reserve, died May 8 [2017] in Pittsburgh; he was 89; professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh; in 1973, Dr. Meltzer along with Karl Brunner of the University of Rochester created the Shadow Open Market Committee, a group of economists, academics and bankers who met regularly to critique the actions of the Federal Reserve's main policy group, the Federal Open Market Committee; Dr. Meltzer chaired the group, which was frequently critical of Fed policy decisions, from 1973 until 1999; Allan Harold Meltzer was born in Boston on Feb. 6, 1928; he was a 1948 graduate of Duke University and received a master's degree (1955) and a doctorate (1958) in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles; joined Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor in 1957 and was still on the faculty at his death; in the last eight years of his life, Dr. Meltzer had taken up a new interest in law and regulation; efore his death, he was working on the book "Regulation and the Rule of Law" with colleagues from Stanford University)
Associated language	eng