Moses Abramovitz
Born	January 1, 1912(1912-01-01) Brooklyn, New York
Died	December 1, 2000
Residence	U.S.
Nationality	American
Fields	Economics
Institutions	Stanford University
Alma mater	Harvard University and Columbia University
Known for	Economic history

Abramovitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1912. He studied economics at Harvard University and earned a doctorate at Columbia University. In 1945 and 1946, he was economic adviser to the United States representative on the Allied Reparations Commission. He also was one of the founding faculty of the Department of Economics at Stanford University, which he joined in the fall of 1948. Abramovitz’s 1986 journal article entitled Catching up, Forging Ahead and Falling Behind is the second most-cited among all the papers published by the Journal of Economic History as of 2006^[update].

Abramovitz was married to Carrie Glasser from 1937 until her death in 1999. She was an internationally recognized painter and sculptor. They had one son together, Joel.

[edit] Publications

Most notable publications in chronological order:

• Price Theory for a Changing Economy, 1939
• Role of Inventories in Business Cycles, 1948
• Inventories and Business Cycles, 1950
• The Trend of Public Employment in Great Britain, with V. Eliasberg, 1954
• Resource and Output Trends in the US since 1870, 1956
• The Welfare Interpretation of Secular Trends in National Income and Product, 1959
• The Nature and Significance of Kuznets Cycles, 1961
• Evidences of Long Swings in Aggregate Construction since the Civil War, 1964
• The Passing of Kuznets Cycles, 1968
• Reinterpreting Economic Growth: Parables and realities, with P. David, 1973
• Rapid Growth Potential and its Realization, 1979
• Economic Growth and Its Discontents, 1979
• Catching Up, Forging Ahead and Falling Behind, 1986
• Thinking About Growth and Other Essays, 1989
• The Search for the Sources of Growth: Areas of Ignorance, Old and New, 1993
• Convergence and Deferred Catch Up, with P. David, 1996
• What Economists Don't Know About Growth, 1999

[edit] References

• Biography at S9
• List of major works

[edit] External links

• Abramovitz' memoirs

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