Richard E. Quandt

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Richard Emeric Quandt (born 1 June 1930, in Budapest) is a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning economist who analyzed the results of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting event with Orley Ashenfelter. [1]

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Quandt served as a professor of economics at Princeton University. [2] In 1979 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [3] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. [4] [5] He is current senior adviser to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. [6]

Quandt is a member of the American Association of Wine Economists and editor of their journal, the Journal of Wine Economics . In 2012, he was involved in organizing a blind tasting event comparing wines produced in France with several wines produced in New Jersey held at Princeton University and known as the "Judgment of Princeton."

He received a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. [7]

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References

  1. Orley Ashenfelter and Richard E. Quandt Analyzing a Wine Tasting Statistically Archived May 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Taber, G. (27 September 2005). The Judgment of Paris: California vs France . Simon & Schuster. p.  219. ISBN   0-7432-4751-5.
  3. View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-08-20.
  4. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  5. "Richard Emeric Quandt". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  6. Princeton University Richard E. Quandt bio
  7. "Untitled".