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Abram Bergson

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Abram Bergson · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1914, Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Where

United States · Harvard University

Biography

Abram Bergson is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Abram Bergson was an American economist, the leading Western authority on the Soviet economy, who introduced the 'social welfare function' (the Bergson–Samuelson welfare function) into welfare economics and developed methods for measuring Soviet national income. He long directed Harvard's Russian Research Center. He was Jewish.

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