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Murray Weidenbaum

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Murray Weidenbaum · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1927, Bronx, New York, United States — 2014, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Murray Weidenbaum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Murray Lew Weidenbaum was an American economist at Washington University in St. Louis who served as the first chairman of Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (1981–1982) and was an early architect of deregulation policy, a leading scholar of the costs of government regulation. He was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists