Abstract
Metzler was born in Lost Springs, Kansas and took AB and MBA degrees at the University of Kansas. He was one of a long line of brilliant students that John Ise sent to Harvard, where Metzler arrived in 1937. He served as an instructor and tutor, receiving his Ph.D. in 1942. From 1943 to 1946 he held a number of positions with government agencies in wartime Washington, including the Office of Strategic Services, several economic policy and planning commissions, and, from 1944 to 1946, with the research staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. From 1946 to 1947 he was a member of the economics department of Yale University. In 1947 he joined the department at the University of Chicago, where he remained until his death. His health declined in the early 1950s; removal of a brain tumour in 1952 left him with a markedly reduced energy level. He continued to teach and produced an occasional paper for the next 20 years.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Bibliography
Gale, D., Nikaido, H. 1965. The Jacobian matrix and the global univalence of mappings. Mathematische Annalen 159(2): 81–93.
Haberler, G. 1941. Prosperity and depression. 3rd ed. Geneva: League of Nations.
Haberler, G. 1952. The Pigou effect once more. Journal of Political Economy 60: 240–246.
Horwich, G. 1962. Real assets and the theory of interest. Journal of Political Economy 70: 157–169.
Horwich, G. 1964. Money, capital, and prices. Homewood: R.D. Irwin.
Horwich, G., and P.A. Samuelson, eds. 1974. Trade, stability, and macroeconomics: Essays in honor of Lloyd A. Metzler. New York: Academic.
McKenzie, L. 1960. Matrices with dominant diagonals and economic theory. In Mathematical methods in the social sciences 1959, ed. K.J. Arrow, S. Karlin, and P. Suppes. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Mundell, R.A. 1960. The public debt, corporate income taxes, and the rate of interest. Journal of Political Economy 68: 622–626.
Niehans, J. 1978. Metzler, wealth, and macroeconomics: A review. Journal of Economic Literature 16: 84–95.
Patinkin, D. 1956. Money, interest and prices: An integration of monetary and value theory. Evanston: Row, Peterson.
Pigou, A.C. 1943. The classical stationary state. Economic Journal 53: 343–351.
Pigou, A.C. 1947. Economic progress in a stable environment. Economica NS 14(55): 180–188.
Scitovszky, T. 1941. Capital accumulation, employment, and price rigidity. Review of Economic Studies 8(2): 69–88.
Wright, D.M. 1952. Professor Metzler and the rate of interest. Journal of Political Economy 60: 247–249.
Zarnowitz, V. 1985. Recent work on business cycles in historical perspective: A review of theories and evidence. Journal of Economic Literature 23: 523–580.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Copyright information
© 2018 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
About this entry
Cite this entry
Horwich, G., Pomery, J. (2018). Metzler, Lloyd Appleton (1913–1980). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_926
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_926
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-95188-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-95189-5
eBook Packages: Economics and FinanceReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences