Daniel Orr

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Daniel Orr
Born(1933-05-13)May 13, 1933
DiedJune 6, 2012(2012-06-06) (aged 79)
Years active1960 -1999

Daniel Orr (May 13, 1933 - June 6, 2012) [1] was an economist. He was a Princeton University Ph.D, and the retired economics chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a published author in the field of economics, especially in academic circles, and has worked for the United States Treasury Department. He became Trustee of Oberlin College in 1993.

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Education

He graduated from Oberlin College in 1954. Later, he received a Ph.D. in economics and sociology from Princeton University in 1960. [2]

Teaching

His teaching career began at Amherst College and moved to the University of Chicago Business School. In 1966, he moved to the newest campus of the University of California at San Diego to start building an economics department. He became chair of the Economic Department for ten years. Then, in 1978, he moved to Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg as the department chair. There he successfully assembled a top-rated economics faculty. His last move was in 1989 to become chair of the economics department at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, from which he retired in 1999.

Personal life

He spent early childhood in New York, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Tennessee. He married Mary Lee and was a father of three children: Rebecca, Matthew and Sara. His daughter, Rebecca Orr, was an Oberlin College freshman who was killed in an accident in the spring of 1982. The family established the Rebecca Cary Orr Memorial Prize in Mathematics to award on the basis of outstanding achievement in undergraduate mathematics and promise of future professional accomplishment. [3]

Orr, an admirer of Adlai Stevenson in his younger days, became a staunch conservative and Republican for most of his years. He was a member of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and believed the Collapse of the World Trade Center was caused by explosives. [4] [5]

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  2. ↑ "Daniel Orr *60". 2016-01-21.
  3. ↑ "Majors Handbook".
  4. ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Survey says some are suspicious about 9-11 Archived 2006-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "9/11 Conspiracy Theories Persist, Thrive". The Washington Post . Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  6. ↑ Orr, Daniel (1963). "A Stochastic Income Model Using Optimal Inventory Rules". The Review of Economic Studies. 30 (2): 84–92. doi:10.2307/2295805. JSTOR   2295805.
  7. ↑ Orr, Daniel (1962). "A Random Walk Production-Inventory Policy: Rationale and Implementation". Management Science. 9 (1): 108–122. doi:10.1287/mnsc.9.1.108. JSTOR   2627190.
  8. ↑ Orr, Daniel (1963). "A Stochastic Income Model Using Optimal Inventory Rules". The Review of Economic Studies. 30 (2): 84–92. doi:10.2307/2295805. JSTOR   2295805.
  9. ↑ Miller, Merton H.; Orr, Daniel (1966). "A Model of the Demand for Money by Firms". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 80 (3): 413–435. doi:10.2307/1880728. JSTOR   1880728.
  10. ↑ Miller, Merton H.; Orr, Daniel (1968). "The Demand for Money by Firms: Extensions of Analytic Results". The Journal of Finance. 23 (5): 735–759. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1968.tb00314.x. JSTOR   2325904.
  11. ↑ Orr, Daniel (1974). "A Note on the Uselessness of Transaction Demand Models". The Journal of Finance. 29 (5): 1565–1572. doi:10.2307/2978560. JSTOR   2978560.
  12. ↑ Orr, Daniel (1993). "Reflections on the Hiring of Faculty". The American Economic Review. 83 (2): 39–43. JSTOR   2117636.
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