Allyn Abbott Young

Allyn Abbott Young
BornSeptember 19, 1876
DiedMarch 7, 1929 (1929-03-08) (aged 52)
London, England
Academic career
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
Alma materHiram College
University of Wisconsin
Doctoral
advisor
Walter F. Willcoxl
Richard T. Ely
Doctoral
students
Frank Knight
Edward Sagendorph Mason
Edward Chamberlin
Nicholas Kaldor

Allyn Abbott Young (September 19, 1876 – March 7, 1929) was an American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio. He died aged 52 in London, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his intellectual powers and current president of Section F of the British Association. Uniquely, Young had also been president of the American Statistical Association (1917) and the American Economic Association (1925).