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Heller was born in Buffalo on 27 August 1915. He grew up in Seattle and Milwaukee, and graduated from Oberlin College. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied with Harold M. Groves, who greatly influenced a generation of public finance scholars. He spent his entire academic career as professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.
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- American Economic Association
- Council of Economic Advisers
- Full-employment surplus
- Germany, economics in
- Heller, W. W.
- Potential gross national product
- Progressive taxation
- Public finance
- Revenue sharing
- Tax expenditures
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Pechman, J.A. (2018). Heller, Walter Wolfgang (1915–1987). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1137
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