1923 - 2020
Mason Gaffney American Economist
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Details
| First Name |
Mason
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| Last Name |
Gaffney
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| Birthday |
18th October, 1923
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| Birthplace |
New York, United States
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| Died |
16th July, 2020
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| Place of Death |
Riverside, California, United States
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| Build |
Large
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| Eye Color |
Blue
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| Hair Color |
Grey
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| Zodiac Sign |
Libra
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Economist
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Merrill Mason Gaffney (October 18, 1923 – July 16, 2020) was an American economist and a major critic of Neoclassical economics from a Georgist point of view. He earned his B.A. in 1948 from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Gaffney first read Henry George's masterwork Progress and Poverty as a high school junior. After serving in the southwest Pacific during World War II, this interest led him in 1956 to get a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. There he addressed his teachers' skepticism about Georgism with a dissertation entitled "Land Speculation as an Obstacle to Ideal Allocation of Land." Gaffney was Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside from 1976 onwards. He died in July 2020 at the age of 96.
