Frederick C. Mills | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 24, 1892 |
| Died | February 9, 1964 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| Institution | Columbia University |
| School or tradition | Institutionalism |
| Alma mater | Columbia University University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Wesley Clair Mitchell |
Frederick Cecil Mills (March 24, 1892 – February 9, 1964) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University in Manhattan from 1919 to 1959.[1] An expert on business cycles, he was also a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1925 to 1953.[2] In 1940, he served as president of the American Economic Association.[3] Mills was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1926.[4]
His son, Robert Mills, was a physicist known for the development of Yang–Mills theory.[5]