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Brown, Harry Gunnison (1880–1975)

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Harry G. Brown was born in Troy, New York, the son of an accountant. He was stricken from age four with tuberculosis of the hip. He graduated from Williams (1904) and took his PhD at Yale in 1909.

This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman

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  • Essays in Honor of Harry Gunnison Brown. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 11(3), 1952.

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Gaffney, M. (1987). Brown, Harry Gunnison (1880–1975). In: Durlauf, S., Blume, L. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_246-1

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