Carl Christ

Carl F. Christ
Born(1923-09-19)September 19, 1923
Chicago, Illinois
DiedApril 21, 2017(2017-04-21) (aged 93)
Baltimore, Maryland
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Doctoral studentsMarc Nerlove
Takeshi Amemiya
Herschel Grossman
Naomi Lamoreaux[1]

Carl Finley Christ (September 19, 1923 –April 21, 2017) was an American economist and a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his contributions in econometrics, including an early popular textbook.[2]

A native of Chicago, Christ graduated with a BS in physics from the University of Chicago in 1943. He worked as junior physicist for the Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1945, and then as an Instructor in Physics at Princeton University, 1945–46, before starting graduate studies in economics at the University of Chicago.[3]

In 1970 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4]

  1. ^ Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (1980). "Industrial Organization and Market Behavior: The Great Merger Movement in American Industry". Journal of Economic History. 40 (1): 169. doi:10.1017/S002205070010470X. S2CID 154400638.
  2. ^ Blaug, Mark; Sturges, Paul (1982). "Christ, Carl Finley". Who's Who in Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 68–69. ISBN 0-262-02188-9.
  3. ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Carl F. Christ" (PDF). JHU website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-16. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  4. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-08-20.