Harry Gunnison Brown

Harry Gunnison Brown
Portrait of Brown
Born(1880-05-07)May 7, 1880
DiedMarch 11, 1975(1975-03-11) (aged 94)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldMonetary economics
Public economics
InstitutionYale University
University of Missouri
School or
tradition
Neoclassical economics[1]
Alma materWilliams College
Yale University
Doctoral
advisor
Irving Fisher
Other notable studentsBeryl Sprinkel
InfluencesGeorge · Fisher · Davenport

Harry Gunnison Brown (May 7, 1880– March 11, 1975) was a Georgist[2] economist teaching at Yale in the early 20th century. Paul Samuelson named Brown in a list of "American saints in economics" that included only 6 other economists born after 1860.[3][4]

  1. ^ Ryan, Christopher Keith (1985). Henry Gunnison Brown: Economist (PhD). Iowa State University. doi:10.31274/rtd-180813-13376. S2CID 161814391.
  2. ^ Brown, H. G. "A Defense of the Single Tax Principle." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 183.1 (1936): 63-69. Quote: "The truth is that I recognize the fundamental justice and common sense of the single-tax idea. But that any other tax than a tax on land values is always and everywhere wrong, regardless of public needs or the nature of this other tax, I do not maintain."
  3. ^ Ryan, Christopher Keith (1985). "Harry Gunnison Brown: economist". Iowa State University. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  4. ^ Samuelson, Paul (1966). The collected scientific papers of Paul A. Samuelson. Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press. ISBN 9780262190800.