Lionel W. McKenzie

Who is this?

Lionel Wilfred McKenzie (January 26, 1919 – October 12, 2010) was an American economist. He was the Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rochester. 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".

Career

1. 1919
   Born
2. 1939
   Won Rhodes Scholarship
3. 1958
   Member of Econometric Society
4. 1958
   Won Fellow of the Econometric Society
5. 2010
   Passed away
6. Member of National Academy of Sciences
7. Won Guggenheim Fellowship
8. Won Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
9. Won Fisher-Schultz Lecture

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Montezuma
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: economist, university teacher