Frederick C. Mills

{{Short description|American economist (1892–1964)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date |1892|3|24|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Santa Rosa, California, US

| death_date = {{death date and age |1964|2|9|1892|3|24|mf=y}}

| death_place = Neshanic, New Jersey, US

| institution = Columbia University

| field = Macroeconomics

| school_tradition = Institutionalism

| alma_mater = Columbia University
University of California, Berkeley

| doctoral_advisor = Wesley Clair Mitchell

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Frederick Cecil Mills (March 24, 1892 – February 9, 1964) was an American economist.{{Cite journal |last=Woirol |first=Gregory R. |date=1999 |title=The Contributions of Frederick C. Mills |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-history-of-economic-thought/article/abs/contributions-of-frederick-c-mills/53D724E30010BBA7F7B72E89A9A63961 |journal=Journal of the History of Economic Thought |language=en |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=163–185 |doi=10.1017/S1053837200003126 |issn=1469-9656}} He was a professor of economics at Columbia University in Manhattan from 1919 to 1959.{{cite news |title=CU Emeritus Prof. F. Mills Dies Sunday |work=Columbia Daily Spectator |date=February 11, 1964 |url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19640211-01.2.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------# }} An expert on business cycles, he was also a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1925 to 1953.{{cite web |title=Frederick C. Mills, 1892-1964 |work=HET: History of Economic Thought |url=http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/fcmills.htm }} In 1940, he served as president of the American Economic Association.{{cite web|url=http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1j49n6pv&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00038&toc.depth=1&toc.id=|publisher=texts.cdlib.org|title=University of California: In Memoriam, 1980|access-date=2016-11-22}} Mills was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1926.{{cite web|url=http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm|title=View/Search Fellows of the ASA|publisher=American Statistical Association|access-date=2016-07-22|archive-date=June 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm|url-status=dead}}

His son, Robert Mills, was a physicist known for the development of Yang–Mills theory.{{Cite web|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/feb00/feb00_obituaries.html|title=Columbia College Today}}