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Allyn Abbott Young | |
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Born | September 19, 1876 Kenton, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | March 7, 1929 London, England | (aged 52)
Academic career | |
Institution | London School of Economics |
Alma mater | Hiram College University of Wisconsin |
Doctoral advisor | Walter F. Willcoxl Richard T. Ely |
Doctoral students | Frank Knight Edward Sagendorph Mason Edward Chamberlin Nicholas Kaldor |
Allyn Abbott Young (September 19, 1876 – March 7, 1929) was an American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio. He died aged 52 in London, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his intellectual powers and current president of Section F of the British Association. Uniquely, Young had also been president of the American Statistical Association (1917) and the American Economic Association (1925).