Geoffrey H. Moore

Geoffrey H. Moore (February 28, 1914 – March 9, 2000), whom The Wall Street Journal called, the “the father of leading indicators”,[1] spent several decades working on business cycles at the National Bureau of Economic Research,[2] where he helped build on the work of his mentors, Wesley C. Mitchell and Arthur F. Burns.[3] Moore also served as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from March 1969 to January 1973.[1]

In 1946 Moore was teaching statistics at New York University and one of his students was Alan Greenspan,[4] later chairman of the Federal Reserve, who would tell The New York Times that Moore was “a major force in economic statistics and business-cycle research for more than a half-century.”[3] In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5] In 1996 Moore founded the Economic Cycle Research Institute in New York city.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "BLS History Commissioners Moore". BLS. BLS. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  2. "Work of Various NBER Figures". NBER. NBER. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Hershey, Jr., Robert D. "Geoffrey H. Moore, 86, Dies; An Analyst of Business Cycles". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  4. Martin, Justin (2000). Greenspan: The Man Behind Money (First ed.). Perseus Publishing. p. 26. ISBN 0-7382-0524-9. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  5. View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
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