Lionel W. McKenzie

Lionel W. McKenzie
Born(1919-01-26)January 26, 1919
DiedOctober 12, 2010(2010-10-12) (aged 91)
Academic career
FieldEconomics
InstitutionDuke University
University of Rochester
Alma materDuke University
University of Oxford
Princeton University
Doctoral
advisor
Oskar Morgenstern
William Baumol
Doctoral
students
Michele Boldrin
Jerry Green
Tapan Mitra
Kazuo Nishimura [ja]
José Scheinkman
Nicholas C. Yannelis
Makoto Yano
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Lionel Wilfred McKenzie (January 26, 1919 – October 12, 2010[1]) was an American economist. He was the Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rochester.[2] He was born in Montezuma, Georgia. He completed undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1939 and subsequently moved to Oxford that year as a Rhodes Scholar. McKenzie worked with the Cowles Commission while it was in Chicago and served as an assistant professor at Duke from 1948 to 1957. Having received his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1956, McKenzie moved to Rochester where he was responsible for the establishment of the graduate program in economics.

McKenzie has been the recipient of numerous professional awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, election to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1978, the Order of the Rising Sun in 1995 and honorary doctorates from Keio University in 1998 and Kyoto University in 2004. The latter three reflect the success of his many Japanese students. McKenzie has been referred to as "the father of the mathematical economists in Japan".

  1. ^ "Pioneering Economist Lionel McKenzie, 91". University of Rochester. 13 October 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Economics Department Faculty". rochester.edu. University of Rochester. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.