Lance Taylor (economist), Date of Birth

Lance Taylor (economist)

American economist

Date of Birth: 25-May-1940

Profession: professor, economist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lance Jerome Taylor (born May 25, 1940) is a well known structuralist macroeconomist, working to understand the macroeconomy through “its major institutions and distributive relationships across productive sectors and social groups." He is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development and director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research, where he has taught and worked since 1993.
As a professor, he teaches students who come in with "a critical attitude about economics," aiming to encourage that "progressive perspective" while providing them "the standard technical tools of economics."He has served as a visiting scholar or policy advisor in over 25 countries, including Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, Egypt, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.Taylor was previously Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard and Professor of Economics at MIT, year-long visiting professorships at U.
Minnesota, Univesidade de Brasilia, Delhi School of Economics, and Stockholm School of Economics.
He received a B.S.
degree with honors in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and, after study at Lund University (Sweden) and a Fulbright Fellowship in mathematics and economics, he received a Ph.D.
in Economics from Harvard University in 1968.