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Goodwin, Richard M. (Richard Murphey), 1913-1996

LC control no.n 84021075
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Personal name headingGoodwin, Richard M. (Richard Murphey), 1913-1996
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Variant(s)Goodwin, Richard Murphey
Goodwin, R. M. (Richard Murphey), 1913-1996
Goodwin, Dick, 1913-1996
Birth date19130224
Death date19960813
Place of birthNew Castle (Ind.)
Place of deathSiena (Italy)
AffiliationHarvard University
University of Cambridge
Università di Siena
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Economists
Found inNonlinear models of fluctuating growth, 1984: CIP t.p. (R.M. Goodwin) verso t.p. (Richard M. Goodwin, Dept. Econ., Univ. Siena) data sheet (Dr. Richard Murphey Goodwin, b. 2-24-13)
LC data base, 5-24-84 (hdg.: Goodwin, Richard Murphey; usage: Richard M. Goodwin, R. M. Goodwin)
Wikipedia, November 12, 2014 (Richard M. Goodwin; American mathematician and economist; born in New Castle, Indiana on February 24, 1913; Goodwin received his BA and Ph. D. at Harvard, and he taught there from 1942 until 1950; he taught at the University of Cambridge until 1979 and the University of Siena until 1984; he was the first non-Italian professor of economics at Siena; Goodwin worked on the interaction between long run growth and business cycles; he died August 13, 1996)
Cambridge journal of economics 1996: volume 20, page 645-649 (Richard Murphey Goodwin, 1913-1996; the unexpected death of Dick Goodwin, in a Siena hospital, on the 6th of August 1996, following an emergency heart operation; Goodwin was born in Newcastle, Indiana, on 24 February 1913; he won a scholarship to Harvard (1930), where he read Political Science and graduated in 1934; as a Rhodes Scholar (1934-1937), he spent three years at St John's College, Oxford, reading PPE and then gaining a BLitt; on returning to Harvard in 1938, he gained his Ph. D. in economics and then became a member of the Economics Department (1938-1950); he taught Economics and, during the war, also Physics, to Army Officers; he then came to Cambridge, England, in 1951; he was appointed Girdlers' Lecturer, then a Reader in Economics and a Fellow of Peterhouse; in Cambridge he remained till retiring age, 67, in 1980; he won the concours to a Professorship of Economics at Siena, Italy, where he continued his teaching till the Italian retirement age of 75 in 1988)
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