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James S. Duesenberry, 1918-

James Duesenberry, nacido en Princeton, WV, estudió y obtuvo el doctorado en la Universidad de Michigan. Fue profesor en Harvard y el MIT. Actualmente es profesor emérito de Dinero y Banca en el Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Harvard.

En 1949 propuso una función de consumo de tipo keynesiano argumentando que el comportamiento de consumo crea hábito y proponiendo que los individuos aumentan su consumo al aumentar las rentas pero que tienen dificultades para reducir su consumo en la misma proporción cuando la renta disminuye.

Posteriormente, en 1958, y siguiendo un razonamiento similar, hace una contribución al acelerador y la teoría keynesiana de los ciclos. Para Duesenberry, la inversión depende de los niveles históricos alcanzados por la renta y el capital.

Curriculum Vitae


• Nombre: James Stemble Duesenberry
• Nacimiento: 18 de julio de 1918

Titulaciones:


• A.B., 1939, University of Michigan
• A.M., 1941, University of Michigan
• Ph.D., 1948, University of Michigan

Puestos académicos:


• 1939-1941 Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan
• 1941 Research Fellow, Social Science Research Council
• 1942-1945 U.S. Air Force
• 1946 Instructor, M.I.T.
• 1946-1948 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
• 1948-1953 Assistant Professor, Harvard University
• 1953 Associate Professor, Harvard University
• 1954-1955 Fulbright Fellow, Cambridge University
• 1955-1989 Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• 1958-1959 Ford Research Professor
• 1966-1968 Member of President's Council of Economic Advisers
• 1969-1974 Chairman, Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• 1972-1977 Chairman, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• 1981-Present Consultant, Harvard Institute for International Development en Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Gambia
• 1984 Visiting Professor, University of Kobe, Japan
• 1989- Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• 1989 Visiting Professor, Southwest University of Finance and Economic, ChengDu, Sichuan, China
• 1989- Consultant, Harvard Institute for International Development

Obras de Duesenberry:
• "Income-Consumption Relations and their Implications, 1948, in Metzler, editor, Income, Employment and Public Policy.
• Income, Saving and the Theory of Consumer Behavior, 1949.
• The Mechanics of Inflation, 1950, REStat.
• The Methodological Basis of Economic Theory, 1954, REStat
• Business Cycles and Economic Growth, 1958.
• Underlying Factors in the Post-War Inflation,1959, in Myers, editor, Wages, Prices, Profits and Productivity
• Cases and Problems in Economics, 1960.
• A Simulation of the U.S. Economy in Recession, with O. Eckstein and G. Fromm, 1960, Econometrica
• A Process Approach to Flow-of-Funds Analysis, 1962, in Flow-of-Funds Approach to Social Accounting
• The Portfolio Approach to the Demand for Money and Other Assets, 1963, REStat
• The Brookings Quarterly Econometric Model of the United States, with L. Klein and G. Fromm, 1965
• Money and Credit: Impact and control, 1967.
• Alternatives to Monetary Policy, 1974, AER
• Money, Banking and the Economy, with T. Mayer, and R.Z. Aliber, 1984?