Arthur Goldberger
Arthur Stanley Goldberger (November 20, 1930 – December 11, 2009) was an econometrician and an economist. He worked with Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein on the development of the Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic model at the University of Michigan.
Arthur S. Goldberger | |
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| Born | November 20, 1930 |
| Died | December 11, 2009 (aged 79) Madison, Wisconsin, US |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Field | Econometrics |
| School or tradition | Neoclassical economics |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (PhD) NYU (B.S.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lawrence Klein |
| Doctoral students | P. A. V. B. Swamy |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
He spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he helped build the Department of Economics. He wrote classic graduate and undergraduate econometrics textbooks, including Econometric Theory (1964), A Course in Econometrics (1991) and Introductory Econometrics (1998). Among his many accomplishments, he published a number of articles critically evaluating the literature on the heritability of IQ and other behavioral traits.
In 1968 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.