Duesenberry, James S., 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.
Falleció el 5 de octubre de 2009.
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
"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?
Coordenadas actuales de Duesenberry
Dirección de su oficina:
Harvard University
Department of Economics,
Littauer 235
Persona de contacto: Yvonne Zinfon