Malcolm Churchill Rorty (1875 – January 18, 1937) was an American engineer, economist, statistician and manager for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. He is known as one of the founding members of the Econometric Society,[1] and co-founder of the National Bureau of Economic Research,[2] and in 1931 was elected presidents of the American Statistical Association. Rorty wrote numerous monographs on economic topics in which he opposed an "ultra-conservative viewpoint",[3] and defended "a laissez-faire approach to business".[4]
- ^ Andranik S. Tangian; Josef Gruber (28 November 2001). Constructing and Applying Objective Functions: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Econometric Decision Models Constructing and Applying Objective Functions, University of Hagen, Held in Haus Nordhelle, August, 28 - 31, 2000. Springer. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-3-540-42669-1. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ N.I. Stone (1945). "The Beginnings of the National Bureau of Economic Research: A Tribute to the Memory of Its Founder: Malcolm C. Rorty."
- ^ Francisco Louçã. The Years of High Econometrics: A Short History of the Generation that Reinvented Economics. 2007. p. xviii
- ^ Neil Gross. Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher. 2010. p. 30