Joe Staten Bain (4 July 1912, Spokane, Washington – 7 September 1991, Columbus, Ohio) was an American economist associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Bain was designated a Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association in 1982.[1] An accompanying statement referred to him as "the undisputed father of modern Industrial Organization Economics."[2][3]
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