John D. Black | |
Birth Date: | June 6, 1883 |
Birth Place: | Cambridge, Wisconsin |
Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
Nationality: | American |
Institutions: | University of Minnesota Harvard University |
Field: | Agricultural economics |
Alma Mater: | University of Wisconsin |
Doctoral Advisor: | Benjamin Hibbard |
Doctoral Students: | Marion Clawson Willard Cochrane Barbara Reagan |
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John Donald Black (June 6, 1883 – April 12, 1960) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at University of Minnesota from 1918 to 1927, and then from 1927 to 1956 at Harvard University.[1] Black was one of the authors of the Agricultural Adjustment Act.[2] He was also president of the American Economic Association in 1955.[3] Black died at a Boston hospital in 1960.[4]