Person

Edward C. Prescott

1940 – 2022 · aged 82

American economist (1940-2022)

Born
26 Dec 1940 · Glens Falls
Died
6 Nov 2022 · Paradise Valley

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

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  1. 26 Dec 1940BornBorn in Glens Falls
  2. 1980AwardFellow of the Econometric Society
  3. 2002AwardErwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics
  4. 2004AwardPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
  5. 6 Nov 2022DiedDied in Paradise Valley

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1940 – 2022).

  1. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  2. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  3. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  4. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  5. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  6. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  7. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  8. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  10. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  11. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  13. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  14. 1956Suez Crisis
  15. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  17. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  19. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  21. 1968Prague Spring
  22. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  23. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  24. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  25. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  27. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  28. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  29. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  30. 1985Schengen Agreement
  31. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  32. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  33. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  35. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  37. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  39. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  40. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Biography

Edward Christian Prescott (December 26, 1940 – November 6, 2022) was an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". This research was primarily conducted while both Kydland and Prescott were affiliated with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the IDEAS/RePEc rankings, he was the 19th most widely cited economist in the world in 2013. In August 2014, Prescott was appointed an Adjunct Distinguished Economic Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. Prescott died of cancer on November 6, 2022, at the age of 81.

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