Henry Ludwell Moore
Henry Ludwell Moore was an American economist known for his pioneering work in econometrics.
Moore was born in Charles County, Maryland, the first ofchildren. He received a B.A. from RandolphMacon College in 1892 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1896. His thesis was on von Thnens theory of the natural wage. The visiting lecturers included Simon Newcomb and J. B. Clark and he may have learned some mathematical economics from them. While doing the Ph.D., he spent a year at the University of Vienna. At that time study in Europe was quite usual Americans often went to Europe, usually to Germany, for their entire graduate education. Moore was an early U.S. Ph.D. His academic career proceeded through an instructorship and lectureship at Johns Hopkins, a professorship at Smith College from 1897 to 1902 and finally to positions at Columbia University. He retired from Columbia in 1929 due to ill health.
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