| Edgar Russell Fiedler | |
| Office: | Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy |
| Term Start: | 1971 |
| Term End: | 1975 |
| President: | Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford |
| Predecessor: | Murray Weidenbaum |
| Successor: | Sidney L. Jones |
| Birth Date: | April 21, 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Nationality: | American |
| Death Date: | March 15, 2003 |
| Occupation: | economist |
Edgar Russell Fiedler (April 21, 1929 – March 15, 2003)[1] was an American economist.
Fiedler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and later lived in Scarsdale, New York, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[2] He was a 1951 graduate of the University of Wisconsin.[2] He received an M.B.A. at the University of Michigan in 1956, and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University in 1970.[2]
He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1971 to 1975 during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.[2]
He served as Vice President, economic counselor, senior fellow and adviser of The Conference Board, a business research organization in Manhattan, which he first joined in 1975.[2] He edited its monthly publication, Economic Times.[3]
In the 1980s he was an adjunct professor of economics at the Columbia Graduate School of Business.[3] He authored The Roots of Stagflation (1984).[4] [2]
He wrote the following wry rules for economic forecasters: “If you must forecast, forecast often. And if you’re ever right, never let ’em forget it.”[5]