| Birth | June 30, 1915 |
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| Death | February 12, 1998 |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Institution | University of Michigan |
| Alma mater | Western Michigan University, B.A., University of Michigan Ph.D. |
| Awards | Fulbright Scholar, Ford Foundation fellowship, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, President of American Economic Association (1982) |
Gardner Ackley also known as H. Gardner Ackley, (June 30, 1915 – February 12, 1998) was a American economist and diplomat.
He served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President John F. Kennedy, and as the Chairman under President Lyndon B. Johnson between 1964 and 1968. He also served as Ambassador to Italy between 1968 and 1969,[1] and as President of the American Economic Association in 1982.[2] Ackley was a member of the University of Michigan faculty for 43 years and served as chair of its Economics department. Upon returning to the University following his ambassadorship, he was named the Henry Carter Adams Professor of Political Economy.
Ackley was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1915, and was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan where he attended public schools and graduated from Western Michigan University in 1936. He earned a Ph.D from the University of Michigan in 1940, and joined the faculty that year. He served in the U.S. Office of Price Administration, and the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C. between 1941 and 1946 and as assistant director of the U.S. Office of Price Stabilization from 1951 to 1952.[3][4]
Ackley believed that government had a definite role in fine tuning the economy, and he believed in both fiscal and monetary intervention. He warned President Johnson in 1966 that a tax increase was needed to finance the escalation of the war in Vietnam and the increased social welfare spending that Johnson was undertaking. Johnson did not ask for a tax increase, and economists, including Paul Samuelson believed this was the cause of the inflation of the 1970's.[2]
He was the author of the popular graduate school textbook Macroeconomic Theory", which was translated into several languages and which remained the standard advanced text for many years.[5][4]
Selected publications
- "Relative Prices and Aggregate Consumer Demand", with D.B. Suits, 1950, American Economic Review.
- "The Wealth-Saving Relationship", Journal of Political Economy, 1951.
- "Administered Prices and the Inflationary Process", American Economic Review, 1959.
- Macroeconomic Theory, Macmillan Company, 1971.
- Stemming World Inflation, The Atlantic Institute, 1971.
- "An Incomes Policy for the 1970s", Review of Economics and Statistics, 1972.
- Macroeconomics, Theory and Policy, Macmillan Library Reference 1978.
- "The Costs of Inflation", American Economic Review, 1978.
References
- ^ U.S. Dept of State, Office of Historian. "Hugh Gardner Ackley Ambassador Italy"
- ^ a b McDowell, Edwin. "H. Gardner Ackley, 82, Dies; Presidential Economic Adviser", The New York Times, February 21, 1998.
- ^ Gardner Ackley Papers 1936-1990."Summary Information", Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
- ^ a b "H. Gardner Ackley, Obituary", The University Record, University of Michigan, February 25, 1998.
- ^ Ackley, Gardner, "Macroeconomic Theory", Collier Macmillan, 1978.
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