Robert Summers
Robert Summers · Economics & Business
Economist
1922, Gary, Indiana, USA — 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
United States · University of Pennsylvania
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Robert Summers was an American economist who, with Alan Heston, created the Penn World Table, a landmark dataset of internationally comparable national accounts that transformed empirical growth economics. Brother of Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson and father of economist Lawrence Summers, he belonged to a distinguished Jewish family and was Jewish.
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