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Durand was born in Ithaca, New York. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1941. He was a member of the Research Staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1946 to 1955 when he became a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remained throughout his career.
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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Weston, J.F. (1987). Durand, David (Born 1912). 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_78-1
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