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Willian Fellner

Who

Willian Fellner · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1905, Budapest, Austria-Hungary — 1983, United States

Where

Hungary · United States

Biography

Willian Fellner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Willian Fellner (usually spelled William Fellner) was a Hungarian-American economist and Sterling Professor at Yale who wrote influentially on oligopoly, competition and inflation and later served on the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. He was born into a Jewish family in Budapest and emigrated to the United States in 1938; his Encyclopaedia Judaica entry documents his Jewish background.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists

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Economist

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists