Arthur Goldberger

Arthur S. Goldberger
Born	November 20, 1930 Brooklyn, New York
Died	December 11, 2009 (aged 79) Madison, Wisconsin
Nationality	United States
Institution	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Field	Econometrics
School or tradition	Neoclassical economics
Alma mater	University of Michigan (PhD) NYU (B.S.)
Influences	Lawrence Klein Sydney Hook
Influenced	Jan Kmenta Charles Manski P. A. V. B. Swamy George C. Tiao
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

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.^[1] He died at the age of 79.^[2]

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.^[1]

References

1. Nicholas M. Kiefer (1989). "The ET Interview: Arthur S. Goldberger". Econometric Theory 5: 133–160. doi:10.1017/s0266466600012299.
2. Dept. of Economics, University of Wisconsin. "Arthur Goldberger (1930–2009)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 29, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-17.

Sources

• Jöreskog, K. G. and Goldberger, A. S. (1975). "Estimation of a model with multiple indicators and multiple causes of a single latent variable". Journal of the American Statistical Association 70 (351): 631–639. doi:10.2307/2285946. JSTOR 2285946.
• Arthur Goldberger at the Mathematics Genealogy Project