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Don Patinkin

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Don Patinkin · Economics & Business

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Economist

When

1922, Chicago, USA — 1995, Jerusalem, Israel

Where

United States · Israel

Biography

Don Patinkin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Don Patinkin was an American-born Israeli monetary economist whose Money, Interest, and Prices (1956) was among the most influential works in monetary macroeconomics, integrating the theories of value and money. He emigrated to Israel in 1949, became a central figure of the Hebrew University's economics department, and served as its president; born in Chicago to a Jewish family of Polish origin, he was Jewish.

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