IK
Economics & Business

Irving Kravis

Share
Who

Irving Kravis · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1916, USA — 1992, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Irving Kravis is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Irving B. Kravis was an American economist at the University of Pennsylvania and a student of Simon Kuznets, best known for pioneering the international comparison of prices and real output through purchasing-power parities that led to the Penn World Table. He is listed among Jewish economists by Jewish biographical sources, though his own biographies do not detail his religious identity.

Sources & external links

Verify and go deeper with these external references.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists

This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.

Contributions & Sources

Economist

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists