William A. Barnett

William A. Barnett
Photograph of William A. Barnett
Born	(1941-10-30) October 30, 1941 (age 82) Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	Economic measurement, macroeconomics, monetary econometrics, consumer demand and production modelling, nonlinear dynamics.
Institution	University of Kansas Washington University in St. Louis University of Texas, Austin Johns Hopkins University
School or tradition	neoclassical economics
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D., 1974). University of California at Berkeley (M.B.A., 1965). M.I.T (B.S., 1963).
Influences	Henri Theil, Milton Friedman, Franco Modigliani, Simon Kuznets, Robert Lucas, Jr., Thomas J. Sargent.
Contributions	Originator of the Divisia monetary aggregates. Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. President of Society for Economic Measurement. Director of Center for Financial Stability. Director of the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference at RUDN University in Moscow.
Awards	John C. Wright Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. (2017). Higuchi Research Award (2013). American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (the PROSE Awards) (2012).
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William Arnold Barnett (born October 30, 1941) is an American economist, whose current work is in the fields of chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinear dynamics in socioeconomic contexts, econometric modeling of consumption and production, and the study of the aggregation problem and the challenges of measurement in economics.