本帖所有资料取自互联网，不以盈利为目的。最近在做关于TFP的分析，Edward F. Denison是growth accounting的重要人物，做了很多开创性的工作。权且发上来供大家共同讨论。接下来会发布一些近年来的后人工作，也请有兴趣的同学一起讨论。

Edward Fulton Denison

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Edward Fulton Denison (December 18,1915, Omaha - October 23, 1992, Washington D.C.) was an American economist.[1][2][3] He was apioneer in the measurement of the United States gross national product[1] and one of thefounders of growth accounting.[3]

Denison earned an bachelor's degreein economics in Oberlin College in 1936, amaster's degree in Brown University in 1938, and adoctorate from Brown in 1941.[1] In 1948, hebecame acting chief of the National Income Division of the Bureau of Foreign and DomesticCommerce.[3] The next year,Edward also acted as Assistant Director and Chief Economist of the Office of BusinessEconomics.[1][3] In 1956 he leftOBE to work for the Committee for Economic Development.[3] From 1963, heserved as a senior member of the Brookings Institution on economicresearch.[1][3]

Denison became a distinguishedfellow of the American Economic Association in 1981.[4]

He married Elsie Lightbown. Hisdaughter, Janet Howell has served inthe Virginia Senate since 1992. [5]