George S. Tolley

George S. Tolley
Born (1925-11-18)November 18, 1925
Nationality American
Spouse(s) Alice
Institution
Field
School or
tradition		 Chicago school of economics
Alma mater
Influences
Awards Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003)

George S. Tolley (November 18, 1925) is an agricultural economist at the University of Chicago. Along with the faculty at the University of Chicago, he has worked on the faculty of North Carolina State University. In 1965-1966, he was Director of the Economic Development Division of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture, and in 1974-1975 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of the Office of Tax Analysis at the US Department of Treasury.

Early life

Tolley was born November 18, 1925 in Washington, DC to Howard R. Tolley and Zora Frances Tolley. Howard was also an agricultural economist. In the 1920s, he worked in the USDA’s Bureau of Agricultural Economics and in 1935 he returned to the Giannini Foundation at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1936, he returned to Washington an worked to reform the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and was chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics from 1936 to 1946.[1]

George Married Alice Welch, and they have one daughter, Catherine.

Graduate school

Tolley graduated from American University with a bachelor in economics in 1947. Tolley received his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, receiving his PhD in 1955.[2] During that period, Chicago was a leader in agricultural economics under the leadership of Theodore Schultz and D. Gale Johnson, largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Tolley's performance as a graduate student was very strong, and he was a major intellectual and administrative leader among the graduate students. He worked with an number of graduate students who became prominent in the field, particularly Robert L. Gustafson, Conrad Gislason, Cleon Harrell, Seymour Smidt, Hendrick Houthakker, Lester Tesler, Clifford Hildreth, and F. G. Jarrett.[3]

Career

After graduating he moved to North Carolina State University as associate professor of agricultural economics[4] from 1955-1966. In 1966, he returned to the University of Chicago as a full professor.[5]

His work style was influenced by Schultz's valuing of testing and contesting ideas in workshops and with working papers. His questioning at workshops were gentle but probing, and he was considered a more relaxed audience member than many of his University of Chicago colleagues at research seminars.[5]

In 1965-1966 he was Director of the Economic Development Division of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of the Office of Tax Analysis at the US Department of Treasury in 1974-1975. He has also served on the President's Task Force on Urban Renewal, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Automotive Pollution, and the Energy Engineering Board at the National Research Council.[5]

His research was broad reaching and included migration and agricultural policy, water allocation, water investments in depressed areas, international trade in agriculture and economic development, social costs and rural–urban balance, resource allocation effects of environmental policies, fiscal externalities and suburbanization, road capacity and city size, tax rates and national incomes, and freeing up transit markets. Between 1960 and 2000 he supervised 69 student PhD dissertations.[5]

Honors

Tolley's research received a number of awards from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (formerly the American Farm Economics Association). In 1956, his doctoral dissertation, “Earnings of Labor and Capital in the Food Processing Industries”, received the doctoral dissertation award. In 1961 and 1962 he received honorable mention for the Published Research Award for a pair of articles written with Loyal M. Hartman, “Inter-Area Relations in Agricultural Supply” and “Effects of Federal Acreage Controls on Costs and Techniques of Producing Flue-cured Tobacco”. In 1964, he received the award with Raymond W. Gieseman for a paper titled “Consumer Demand Explained By Measurable Utility Changes”.[6]

Tolley was director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1985. He founded the journal, Resource and Energy Economics.[7]

Tolley was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is honorary editor of the journal, Resource and Energy Economics. He was also awarded an honorary Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2006.[2]

Links

References

  1. ↑ Hansen, John Mark. The problem of political management: Two historical episodes examined Prepared for the Conference on Political Accountability, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the Political Economy Program, Princeton University, March 2002, accessed June 13, 2016 at https://www.princeton.edu/csdp/events/Accountability2002/hansen.pdf
  2. 1 2 George S. Tolley, University of Chicago Department of Economics Webpage, accessed June 13, 2016 at https://economics.uchicago.edu/facstaff/tolley.shtml
  3. ↑ Sumner, Daniel A. Agricultural Economics at Chicago, in David Gale Johnson, John M. Antle. The Economics of Agriculture: Papers in honor of D. Gale Johnson. University of Chicago Press, 1996 p 14-29
  4. ↑ Notes. The American Economic Review, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Mar., 1956), pp. 272-279
  5. 1 2 3 4 G.C. Blomquist. Economist and Editor George S. Tolley, A special issue in his honor. Resource and Energy Economics 24 (2002) 3–11
  6. ↑ The History of AAEA Research Awards. Am. J. Agr. Econ. (2010) 92 (2): 300-328.
  7. ↑ George Tolley, President, RCF Webpage Biography, accessed June 13, 2016 at http://www.rcfecon.com/site/epage/89619_883.htm
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