George S. Tolley

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George S. Tolley
Born(1925-11-18)November 18, 1925
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedAugust 31, 2021(2021-08-31) (aged 95)
NationalityAmerican
SpouseAlice
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AwardsFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003)
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    Early life

    Tolley was born November 18, 1925, in

    Agricultural Adjustment Administration and was chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics from 1936 to 1946.[1]

    George married Alice Welch, and they have one daughter, Catherine.

    Graduate school

    Tolley graduated from

    Lester Telser, Clifford Hildreth, and F. G. Jarrett.[3]

    Career

    After graduating he moved to North Carolina State University as associate professor of agricultural economics[4] from 1955 to 1966. In 1966, he returned to the University of Chicago as a full professor.[5]

    His work style was influenced by Schultz's valuing of testing and contesting ideas in workshops and with working papers. His questioning at workshops were gentle but probing, and he was considered a more relaxed audience member than many of his University of Chicago colleagues at research seminars.[5]

    In 1965-1966 he was Director of the Economic Development Division of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of the Office of Tax Analysis at the US Department of Treasury in 1974–1975. He has also served on the President's Task Force on Urban Renewal, the

    National Research Council.[5]

    His research was broad reaching and included migration and agricultural policy, water allocation, water investments in depressed areas, international trade in agriculture and economic development, social costs and rural–urban balance, resource allocation effects of environmental policies, fiscal externalities and suburbanization, road capacity and city size, tax rates and national incomes, and freeing up transit markets. Between 1960 and 2000 he supervised 69 student PhD dissertations.[5] Tolley died on August 31, 2021, at the age of 95.[6]

    Honors

    Tolley's research received a number of awards from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (formerly the American Farm Economics Association). In 1956, his doctoral dissertation, "Earnings of Labor and Capital in the Food Processing Industries", received the doctoral dissertation award. In 1961 and 1962 he received honorable mention for the Published Research Award for a pair of articles written with Loyal M. Hartman, "Inter-Area Relations in Agricultural Supply" and "Effects of Federal Acreage Controls on Costs and Techniques of Producing Flue-cured Tobacco". In 1964, he received the award with Raymond W. Gieseman for a paper titled "Consumer Demand Explained By Measurable Utility Changes".[7]

    Tolley was director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1985. He founded the journal, Resource and Energy Economics.[8]

    Tolley was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He was honorary editor of the journal, Resource and Energy Economics. He was also awarded an honorary Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2006.[2]

    See also

    Bibliography

    • George S. Tolley;
      ISBN 978-0-8018-2704-4
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    • George S. Tolley; Philip E. Graves; John L. Garner (1979). Urban Growth Policy in a Market Economy. Academic Press.
      ISBN 978-0-12-692850-1
      .
    • George Tolley; Donald Kenkel; Robert G. Fabian (November 1994). Valuing Health for Policy: An Economic Approach. University of Chicago Press.
      ISBN 978-0-226-80713-3
      .

    References

    1. ^ Hansen, John Mark. The problem of political management: Two historical episodes examined Prepared for the Conference on Political Accountability, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the Political Economy Program, Princeton University, March 2002, accessed June 13, 2016, at https://www.princeton.edu/csdp/events/Accountability2002/hansen.pdf
    2. ^ a b George S. Tolley, University of Chicago Department of Economics Webpage, accessed June 13, 2016, at https://economics.uchicago.edu/facstaff/tolley.shtml Archived 2016-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
    3. ^ Sumner, Daniel A. Agricultural Economics at Chicago, in David Gale Johnson, John M. Antle. The Economics of Agriculture: Papers in honor of D. Gale Johnson. University of Chicago Press, 1996 p 14-29
    4. ^ Notes. The American Economic Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Mar., 1956), pp. 272-279
    5. ^ a b c d G.C. Blomquist. Economist and Editor George S. Tolley, A special issue in his honor. Resource and Energy Economics 24 (2002) 3–11
    6. ^ George S. Tolley 1925-2021 - A message from the department chair
    7. ^ The History of AAEA Research Awards. Am. J. Agr. Econ. (2010) 92 (2): 300-328.
    8. ^ George Tolley, President, RCF Webpage Biography, accessed June 13, 2016, at http://www.rcfecon.com/site/epage/89619_883.htm Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine

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