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Gordon was born 26 July 1908 in Washington, DC, and died 7 April 1978 in Berkeley, California. He was a policy-oriented economist whose research style was quantitative but not econometric, and whose influence was felt not only through his basic research but also as a dedicated and tireless public servant. After his formative years as graduate student and instructor at Harvard University, 1929–38, he accepted a position at the University of California (Berkeley), where he remained until his retirement from teaching in 1976.
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Hickman, B.G. (2018). Gordon, Robert Aaron (1908–1978). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1154
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