Data Resources Inc or DRI was co-founded in 1969 by Donald Marron and Otto Eckstein. Marron is best known as the former CEO of PaineWebber and founder of Lightyear Capital. Eckstein was a Harvard University economics professor, economic consultant to Lyndon Baines Johnson and member of the Council of Economic Advisors.

DRI became the largest non-governmental distributor of economic data in the world.

DRI was bought by McGraw-Hill in 1979, and merged with WEFA (formerly Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates) in 2001 to form Global Insight.

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• McGraw-Hill company website
• Global Insight company website

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