Murray Weidenbaum

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Murray Weidenbaum
12th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office
February 27, 1981 – August 25, 1982
PresidentRonald Reagan
Preceded byCharles Schultze
Succeeded byMarty Feldstein
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
In office
June 23, 1969 – August 13, 1971
PresidentRichard Nixon
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byEdgar Fiedler
Personal details
Born(1927-02-10)February 10, 1927
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedMarch 20, 2014(2014-03-20) (aged 87)
Clayton, Missouri, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpousePhyllis Green
Children3
EducationCity University of New York, City College (BBA)
Columbia University (MA)
Princeton University (PhD)

Murray Lew Weidenbaum (February 10, 1927 – March 20, 2014), was an American

Council of Economic Advisors
from 1981 to 1982.

Biography

Weidenbaum was born to a

Ph.D. from Princeton University with thesis titled Government Spending: Process and Measurement.[2] He became a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis
in 1964 and was chair of the economics department from 1966 to 1969. In 1975 he helped found the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University, which was later renamed the Weidenbaum Center in his honor.

Weidenbaum did extensive research on the role of the Overseas Chinese bamboo network in Southeast Asia. He explores the topic in his book The Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia.[3]

Weidenbaum died on March 29, 2014, at his home in Clayton, Missouri, at 87.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 9780801854460
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  2. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1959.tb00501.x
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  3. ISBN 978-0-684-82289-1
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  4. ^ "Economist and presidential advisor Murray Weidenbaum dies at 87". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 21, 2014.

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Political offices
New office Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
1969–1971 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
1981–1982 		Succeeded by
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