Weisbrod, Burton Allen, 1931-

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Name (Hebrew)
ויסברוד, בורטון אלן, 1931-
Name (Latin)
Weisbrod, Burton Allen, 1931-
Other forms of name
ווייסבראד, בורטון א
Date of birth
1931
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Nonprofit organizations
Occupation
Economics teachers
Economists
Associated Language
eng heb
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 85306253
Wikidata: Q5000932
Library of congress: n 50022775
Sources of Information
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  • His The nonprofit economy, 1988:CIP t.p. (Burton A. Weisbrod)
  • His The nature and measurement of the economic benefits of improvement ... 1958
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Wikipedia description:

Burton A. Weisbrod (born February 13, 1931, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American economist who pioneered the theory of option value, and the theory of why voluntary nonprofit organizations exist. He also developed the methodology for valuing voluntary labor. He advanced methods for benefit-cost analysis of public policy by recognizing the roles of externality effects and collective public goods in program evaluation. He applied those methods to the fields of education, health care, poverty, public interest law, and nonprofit organization. Over a career of fifty years, he published 16 books and over 200 scholarly articles. He is currently the Cardiss Collins Professor of Economics Emeritus and a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.

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