Edward Fulton Denison

{{short description|American economist}}

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|birth_place = Omaha, Nebraska

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|death_place = Washington, D.C.

|spouse = Elsie Lightbown

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|nationality = American

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|field = Statistics

|work_institutions = George Washington University

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Edward Fulton Denison (December 18, 1915, Omaha – October 23, 1992, Washington D.C.) was an American economist.{{citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/24/us/e-f-denison-economist-76-devised-gnp.html|title=E. F. Denison, Economist, 76; Devised G.N.P.|journal=The New York Times|date=October 24, 1992|first=Bruce|last=Lambert}}.{{citation|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1031437.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105064916/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1031437.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 5, 2012|title=Brookings Institution Economist Edward F. Denison Dies at 77|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 24, 1992}}.{{citation|url=http://www.roiw.org/1993/117.pdf|title=In Memoriam: Edward F. Denison, 1915–1992|journal=Review of Income and Wealth|volume=39|issue=1|year=1993|pages=117–119|first=John W.|last=Kendrick|authorlink=John Whitefield Kendrick|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4991.1993.tb00442.x}}. He was a pioneer in the measurement of the United States gross national product and one of the founders of growth accounting.

Denison earned a bachelor's degree in economics in Oberlin College in 1936, a master's degree in Brown University in 1938, and a doctorate from Brown in 1941. In 1948, he became acting chief of the National Income Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. The next year, Edward also acted as assistant director and Chief Economist of the Office of Business Economics. In 1956 he left OBE to work for the Committee for Economic Development. From 1963, he served as a senior member of the Brookings Institution on economic research.

In 1966 Denison was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm |date=2016-06-16 }}, accessed 2016-08-20.

He became a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association in 1981.[http://www.aeaweb.org/honors_awards/disting_fellows.php Distinguished fellows], American Economic Association, retrieved 2010-12-30.

He married Elsie Lightbown. His daughter, Janet Howell has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992.{{cite news |work=The New York Times |accessdate=2011-06-05 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/24/us/e-f-denison-economist-76-devised-gnp.html |title=E. F. Denison, Economist, 76; Devised G.N.P. |date=October 24, 1992 |first=Bruce |last=Lambert}}