Alexander Gerschenkron (Russian: Александр Гершенкрон; 1 October 1904 – 26 October 1978) was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University...

The Gerschenkron effect, developed by Alexander Gerschenkron, claims that changing the base year for an index determines the growth rate of the index....

particularly in comparison with the 'backwardness' model developed by Alexander Gerschenkron. The two models are not necessarily mutually exclusive, however...

The backwardness model is a theory of economic growth created by Alexander Gerschenkron. The model postulates that the more backward an economy is at the...

efficiently provide inexpensive capital to industry and promote growth. Alexander Gerschenkron also advanced the hypothesis that universal banking was critical...

relation to understanding historical chronology. Economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron has taken issue with the dichotomy, arguing that continuity "appears...

a PhD in economics from Harvard in 1970, where she studied with Alexander Gerschenkron. Her doctoral dissertation on the British iron and steel industry...

have been several major phases of development theory since 1945. Alexander Gerschenkron argued that the less developed the country is at the outset of economic...

advancing to the next stage in development. Another economic historian, Alexander Gerschenkron, complicated this theory with works on how economies develop in...

were settled on just over 600,000 hectares of land. According to Alexander Gerschenkron, with the passing of the law "a momentous decision was taken. German...

thesis. Stanley Hoffmann, an authority on international relations; Alexander Gerschenkron, an eminent economic historian; H. Stuart Hughes, a specialist in...

influential in economic growth than exogenous factors. For example, Alexander Gerschenkron states that governments can substitute for missing prerequisites...

army threatened to unbalance the budget. The economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron criticized his "penny pinching, 'not-one-heller-more policies',"...

is a notion first formulated by the Russian-American economist Alexander Gerschenkron in 1952. However, there is one who argues that it was the American...

in 1960. At Harvard University, she was influenced by economists Alexander Gerschenkron and Robert Solow. She was a fellow of the American Association of...

Character (May 2002), is a memoir of his grandfather, the economist Alexander Gerschenkron. It was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in biography. A Seattle...

Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan Peter B Evans, Embedded Autonomy Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective Peter A. Hall,...

1968 Milton Friedman / Lloyd A. Metzler 1969 Kenneth E. Boulding / Alexander Gerschenkron/ Ludwig E. von Mises 1970 William J. Fellner /William Arthur Lewis...

(1963). "The Russian Peasantry". Past & Present (26): 102–109. Gerschenkron, Alexander (1964). ""Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth...

Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and author (b. 1919) 1978 – Alexander Gerschenkron, Ukrainian-American historian, critic, and academic (b. 1904) 1979...

career Institution City College of New York Field Economic history Transportation economics Alma mater Harvard University Influences Alexander Gerschenkron...

economic history, awarded on behalf of Columbia University Press Alexander Gerschenkron prize: best dissertation in non-American economic history Jonathan...

at Oxford. From the Economic History Association, he won their Alexander Gerschenkron prize in 1997. In 1998, Leunig joined the London School of Economics...

Bismarck and the German Empire (London: Unwin University Books, 1968). Alexander Gerschenkron, Bread and Democracy in Germany (New York: Howard Fertig, 1966)...

practitioner of the New Economic History. At Harvard he studied under Alexander Gerschenkron. He completed his dissertation, Shipbuilding and Shipping in the...

economics from Harvard University. His teachers at Harvard included Alexander Gerschenkron, Wassily Leontief and Edward Chamberlin.[citation needed] He began...

chemistry. However, he switched to studying economics under economist Alexander Gerschenkron. He graduated from Harvard in 1956. He attended the University of...

exhibitions data from early world's fairs. For her work, she received the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize, awarded by the Economic History Association to the best dissertation...

theorist Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian Jean Gottmann, geographer Lazar Gulkowitsch...

(born 1952) Niall Ferguson (born 1964) Robert Fogel (1926–2013) Alexander Gerschenkron (1904–1978) Claudia Goldin (born 1946) Susan Howson (born 1945)...