Michael C. Lovell

{{Short description|American economist (1930–2018)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|04|11}}

| birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|12|20|1930|04|11}}

| death_place = New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.

| nationality = American

| institutions = Wesleyan University
Carnegie Mellon University

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| alma_mater = Harvard University
Stanford University
Reed College

| doctoral_advisor = Wassily Leontief

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| doctoral_students = Dale T. Mortensen
Edward C. Prescott

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| influences = Edwin Mills
Guy Orcutt

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| contributions = Frisch–Waugh–Lovell theorem

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Michael Christopher Lovell (April 11, 1930 – December 20, 2018) was an American economist. He was the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Science at Wesleyan University from 1969 to 2002, professor of economics at Carnegie-Mellon from 1963 to 1969, and assistant professor of economics at Yale from 1958 to 1963.http://mlovell.web.wesleyan.edu/vitae.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lovell earned his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on inventories that was later published in parts in Econometrica.{{cite journal |first=Michael |last=Lovell |title=Manufacturers' Inventories, Sales Expectations, and the Acceleration Principle |journal=Econometrica |volume=29 |issue=3 |year=1961 |pages=293–314 |jstor=1909634 |doi=10.2307/1909634 |url=http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/d00/d0086.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151218132501/http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/d00/d0086.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 18, 2015 }}{{cite book |first1=William |last1=Darity |first2=Robert |last2=Leeson |first3=Warren |last3=Young |title=Economics, Economists and Expectations: From Microfoundations to Macroapplications |location=London |publisher=Routledge |year=2004 |isbn=0-415-08515-2 |pages=54–55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vi6IAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 }}

Lovell's older brother Hugh Gilbert Lovell was also an economist.{{Cite web|url=http://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?pid=161404662|title = Hugh Gilbert Lovell Obituary (2012) the Oregonian}} Their father, R. Ivan Lovell, was a professor of history at Willamette University from 1937 to 1966.

Michael C. Lovell died on December 20, 2018, at the age of 88.{{cite web |title=Michael Lovell Memorial Seminar |url=https://www.wesleyan.edu/econ/Seminars/lovell-memorial.html |website=Wesleyan University |access-date=30 December 2023}}