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Solomon Fabricant, 1906-1989.

American Institutionalist economist and long-term business cycle empiricist at the NBER.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Solomon Fabricant began his career as an accountant, obtaining his B.C.S. from NYU in 1926. Soon deciding on a different career, Fabricant went back to school, and obtained his B.S. City College NY in 1929, and went on for graduate studies at Columbia..  In his very first year, Fabricant was recruited by Frederic C. Mills as a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in 1929, beginning his lifetime association with the institution.  Fabricant received his Ph.D in 1938. from Columbia University.  His early NBER reports on investment, published as a book in 1938, were the basis of his dissertation

Solomon Fabricant was part of the Kuznets team at the NBER on national income accounts, putting his accounting background to productive use. Fabricant put out significant works on the measurement of output (1940) and employment (1942).  Fabricant then turned his focus on government economic activity, culminating in his 1952 book.

Fabricant joined the faculty of his alma mater, New York University, in 1946, but maintained his research position at the NBER.  Fabricant was elected director of research at the NBER in 1953, taking over from Arthur F. Burns.  He was primarily responsible for the essays in the NBER's Annual Reports for the next dozen years.  In 1965, Fabricant resigned the directorship and returned to the active research staff.

 

  

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Major Works of Solomon Fabricant

  • "Recent Corporate Profits in the United States", 1934, NBER Bulletin [nber]
  • "Profits, Losses and Business Assets, 1929-1934", 1935, NBER Bulletin [nber]
  • "Measures of Capital Consumption, 1919-1933", 1936, NBER Bulletin [nber]
  • "Revaluations of Fixed Assets, 1925-1934", 1936, NBER Bulletin [nber]
  • Capital Consumption and Adjustment, 1938 [nber]
  • The Output of Manufacturing Industries, 1899-1937, 1940 [nber]
  • "Manufacturing Output: 1929-1937", 1940, NBER Occ. Paper,  [nber]
  • "The Relation between Factory Employment and Output since 1899", 1941,  NBER Occ. Paper,  [nber]
  • Employment in Manufacturing, 1899-1939. An Analysis of its Relation to the Volume of Production, 1942 [nber]
  • "Productivity of Labor in Peace and War", 1942, NBER Occ. Paper, [nber]
  • "Labor Savings in American Industry, 1899-1939",  1945, NBER Occ. Paper [nber]
  • The Relation of Production to Economic Stability, 1947
  • "The Rising Trend of Government Employment", 1949, NBER Occ. Paper, [nber]
  • The Trend of Government Activity in the United States Since 1900, (with R.G. Lipsey), 1952 [nber]
  • Economic Progress and Economic Change: Annual report for 1953, 1954. [nber]
  • "Government in Economic Life", 1955, Annual Report for 1954 [nber]
  • "Basic Research and the Analysis of Current Business Conditions", 1956, in Annual Report for 1955 [nber]
  • "Financial Research and Problems of the Day", 1957, Annual Report for 1956 [nber]
  • "Investing in Common Knowledge", 1958, in Annual Report for 1957 [nber]
  • "The Study of Economic Growth", 1959, in  Annual report for 1958. [nber]
  • "Basic Facts on Productivity Change", 1959, NBER Occ. Pap [nber]
  • "A Respect for the Facts", 1960, Annual Report for 1959 [nber]
  • "Towards a Firmer Basis of Economic Policy", 1961, Annual Report for 1960 [nber]
  • "The Task of Economics", 1965, in Annual Report for 1964 [nber]
  • A Primer on Productivity, 1969
  • "The 'Recession' of 1969-1970", 1972 in V. Zarnovitz, editor, Economic Research: Retrospect and prospect, [nber]
  • "Toward Rational Accounting in an Era of Unstable Money, 1936-1976", 1976, NBER Report [nber]
  • Productivity Growth, 1979
  • Studies in Social and Private Accounting, 1982

 
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