James Harvey Rogers | |
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 Rogers in 1934 | |
| Born | 25 September 1886 |
| Died | 13 August 1939 (aged 52) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Known for | Advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt |
James Harvey Rogers was Yale University Sterling Professor of Economics from 1931 until his death in 1939. He was an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on monetary economics from 1933 to 1934. He was a student of Irving Fisher and Vilfredo Pareto and is considered Fisher's closest disciple[1] and a proto-Keynesian.[2]
- ^ Jones 1966, p. 20.
- ^ Sweezy 1972, p. 116 writes, "There were no full-fledged Keynesians before the General Theory [1936]. This makes it difficult to say who should be included in a list of Keynesians of the early New Deal period. We find elements of Keynesianism in the work of various people but nowhere the complete product. In discussing those who influenced policy in the early period, I have selected a few outstanding people who contributed in one way or another to the evolution of policy in a Keynesian direction." Among those outstanding people, Sweezy considers Rogers.