Edwin Mansfield
{{short description|American economist}}
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| name = Edwin Mansfield
| birth_date = 1930
| death_date = 1997
| occupation = Professor of economics
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Edwin Mansfield (1930 – 17 November 1997) was a professor of economics at University of Pennsylvania from 1964 and until his death. From 1985 he was also a director of the Center for Economics and Technology.{{cite news |title=Edwin Mansfield, 67, Scholar Of Economics and Technology |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/21/business/edwin-mansfield-67-scholar-of-economics-and-technology.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=11 July 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=21 November 1997 |page=B11}}
Edwin Mansfield is best known for his scientific results concerning technological change / diffusion of innovations, and also for his textbooks on microeconomics, managerial economics, and econometrics that were published in millions copies and translated into foreign languages.
References
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- Diamond, Arthur M. Jr. 2003. "Edwin Mansfield's Contributions to the Economics of Technology," Research Policy, 32(9), pp. [ftp://ftp.ige.unicamp.br/pub/CT001%20SocCiencia/Agosto%2030/Diamond%20on%20Mansfield.pdf 1607-17]{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}.
- Mansfield, Edwin, et al. 2009. Managerial Economics Theory, Applications, and Cases, 7th Edition. Norton. [http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail-contents.aspx?ID=13385 Contents].
- Scherer, F.M. 2005. "Edwin Mansfield: An Appreciation," Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield, Part I, Springer, pp.[https://doi.org/10.1007%2F0-387-25022-0_1 1]-7. [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1503896 Abstract.]
- Teece, David J. 2005. "Technology and Technology Transfer: Mansfieldian Inspirations and Subsequent Developments," Journal of Technology Transfer, 30(1/2), Springer, pp. [https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10961-004-4355-x 17]-33. [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1500957 Abstract.]
External links
- [http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v44/n14/obitmansfield.html An obituary on the UPENN website]
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Category:20th-century American economists
Category:Fellows of the Econometric Society
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