Bennett McCallum

Bennett T. McCallum
Born	July 27, 1935 Poteet, Texas[1]
Nationality	United States
Institution	Carnegie Mellon University University of Virginia
Field	Monetary economics Econometrics
School or tradition	New classical economics
Alma mater	Rice University Harvard University
Influences	John Muth Robert E. Lucas
Influenced	Edward Nelson Charles L. Evans
Contributions	McCallum rule
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Bennett T. McCallum (born July 27, 1935) is an American monetary economist. He is H. J. Heinz Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business.

McCallum earned a B.A. and a B.Sc. (in chemical engineering) from Rice University. He then attended Harvard Business School to earn his M.B.A., before returning to Rice in order to obtain his Ph.D. in economics.

He became professor at Carnegie Mellon in 1981, after holding a professorship at the University of Virginia (1974–1982). Among his doctoral students was Charles L. Evans, the current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.^[2]

See also

• McCallum rule

References

1. Who's Who in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, p. 549.
2. Tepper School of Business: Doctoral Program Newsletter, Issue 14, September 2007. Archived June 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

• Website at Carnegie Mellon
• McCallum, Bennett T. (2008). "Monetarism". In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.