Evsey Domar

Evsey David Domar (Russian: Евсей Давидович Домашевицкий, Domashevitsky; April 16, 1914 – April 1, 1997) was a Russian-American economist, famous as developer of the Harrod–Domar model.

Life

Evsey Domar was born on April 16, 1914, in the

Evsey Domar was president of the Association for Comparative Economics and a member of several other academic organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He was on the executive committee of the American Economic Association from 1962 until 1965, and became the organization's vice president in 1970. In 1965, he was the first recipient of the John R. Commons Award, given by the economics honor society Omicron Delta Epsilon.^[2]

He worked for the

Evsey Domar died on April 1, 1997, in the Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts 15 days before his 83rd birthday.

Work

Evsey Domar was a

Domar's 1961 paper is cited as the source of Domar aggregation, a set of rules and processes for combining industry growth data together to get aggregate industry sector or national growth.

Among his students was the economic historian

Papers

• The Burden of the Debt and the National Income, 1944, AER.
• Proportional Income Taxation and Risk-Taking, with Richard Musgrave, 1944.
• Capital Expansion, Rate of Growth and Employment, 1946, Econometrica.
• Expansion and Employment, 1947, AER.
• The Problem of Capital Accumulation, 1948, AER.
• Capital Accumulation and the End of Prosperity, 1949, Proceedings of Internat. Statistical Conference
• The Effect of Foreign Investment on the Balance of Payments, 1950, AER.
• A Theoretical Analysis of Economic Growth, 1952, AER.
• Depreciation, Replacement and Growth, 1953, EJ.
• The Case for Accelerated Depreciation, 1953, QJE.
• Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth, 1957.
• On the Measurement of Technological Change, 1961, The Economic Journal 71:284 (Dec., 1961), 709–729. (jstor)
• The Soviet Collective Farm as a Producer Co-Operative, 1966, AER.
• An Index-Number Tournament, 1967, QJE.
• The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A hypothesis, 1969, MIT.
• On The Optimal Compensation of a Socialist Manager, 1972, MIT.
• Poor Old Capitalism, 1974, MIT.
• On the profitability of Russian serfdom, 1982, MIT. (with Mark J. Machina)
• Were the Russian serfs overcharged for their land in 1861? The history of one historical table, 1985, MIT.
• The blind men and the elephant : an essay on isms, 1988, MIT.

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