Murray Weidenbaum

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Murray Weidenbaum

|image = Murray Weidenbaum 1981.jpg

|office = 12th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers

|president = Ronald Reagan

|term_start = February 27, 1981

|term_end = August 25, 1982

|predecessor = Charles Schultze

|successor = Marty Feldstein

|office1 = Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy

|president1 = Richard Nixon

|term_start1 = June 23, 1969

|term_end1 = August 13, 1971

|predecessor1 = Position established

|successor1 = Edgar Fiedler

|birth_date = {{birth date|1927|2|10}}

|birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2014|3|20|1927|2|10}}

|death_place = Clayton, Missouri, U.S.

|party = Republican

|spouse = Phyllis Green

|children = 3

|education = City University of New York, City College {{small|(BBA)}}
Columbia University {{small|(MA)}}
Princeton University {{small|(PhD)}}

}}

Murray Lew Weidenbaum (February 10, 1927 – March 20, 2014), was an American economist and author. He was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor and Honorary Chairman of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. He served as the first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1969 to 1971, and he was chairman of President Ronald Reagan's first Council of Economic Advisors from 1981 to 1982.

Biography

Weidenbaum was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UgRQAsk0CK4C&q=weidenbaum|first=Gerald|last=Sorin|title=Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America (The American Moment)|pages=219|date=March 11, 1997|publisher=JHU Press |isbn=9780801854460}} He received a BBA from City College of New York, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University with thesis titled Government Spending: Process and Measurement.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1959.tb00501.x| title = Government Spending: Process and Measurement| journal = The Journal of Finance| volume = 14| page = 101| year = 1959| last1 = Weidenbaum | first1 = M. L. | author-link1 = Murray Weidenbaum}} He became a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis in 1964 and was chair of the economics department from 1966 to 1969. In 1975 he helped found the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University, which was later renamed the Weidenbaum Center in his honor.

Weidenbaum did extensive research on the role of the Overseas Chinese bamboo network in Southeast Asia. He explores the topic in his book The Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia.{{cite book|author=Murray L Weidenbaum|title=The Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia|url=https://archive.org/details/bamboonetworkhow00weid|url-access=registration|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Martin Kessler Books, Free Press|isbn=978-0-684-82289-1}}

Weidenbaum died on March 29, 2014, at his home in Clayton, Missouri, at 87.{{cite news |url=http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/obituaries/economist-and-presidential-advisor-murray-weidenbaum-dies-at/article_7d59e146-ac5c-5822-9e91-4e305a80661e.html |title=Economist and presidential advisor Murray Weidenbaum dies at 87 |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=March 21, 2014}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20101010034420/http://economics.wustl.edu/people/Murray_Weidenbaum Murray Weidenbaum biography] via Washington University in St. Louis
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http://www.oac.cdlib.org/data/13030/5j/kt1000345j/files/kt1000345j.pdf
http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/26682.aspx
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