| LC control no. | n 88651002 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Westfield, Fred M. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1926-11-07 |
| Death date | 2019-04-24 |
| Place of birth | Essen (Germany) |
| Place of death | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Affiliation | Vanderbilt University |
| Profession or occupation | Economists |
| Found in | nuc88-31754: His The economic theory of marginal cost ... 1980 (hdg. on NcGU rept.: Westfield, Fred M.; usage: Fred M. Westfield) LC data base, 7/22/88 (hdg.: Westfield, Fred M.) Vanderbilt Univ. news network, viewed May 6, 2019: (Fred Westfield, Professor Emeritus of Economics; born on November 7, 1926, in Essen, Germany; died on April 24, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee; graduated from Vanderbilt; Ph.D. program in economics at M.I.T., completed his doctoral dissertation in 1957; serving on the faculty at Northwestern as Assistant and Associate Professor. In 1965 he moved to Vanderbilt as Professor of Economics, where he remained until his retirement in 1998. He remained active in the department as an emeritus professor all the way through early 2019.) <https://as.vanderbilt.edu/econ/documents/Fred-Westfield.pdf> Tennessean, viewed May 6, 2019 (Nashville - Fred Meinhard Westfield passed away on April 24, 2019, at Richland Place Health Center in Nashville, Tennessee. In January 1939, 12-year-old Fred was sent to England as part of the Kindertransport. He took graduate studies at MIT, earned a PhD in industrial economics in 1957. From 1957-1965, he served as assistant and associate professor at Northwestern University. In 1965, Vanderbilt appointed Fred as professor of economics, where he taught microeconomic theory to a generation of PhD students.) <https://obits.tennessean.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?n=fred-meinhard-westfield&pid=192736765> |
| Associated language | eng |
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