Marina von Neumann Whitman

Marina von Neumann Whitman
Marina von Neumann Whitman
Born March 6, 1935(1935-03-06)
New York, NY
Residence Michigan
Nationality  United States
Ethnicity Hungarian American
Education B.A. (summa cum laude), 1956
M.A., 1959, Ph.D., 1962
Alma mater Radcliffe College
Columbia University
Occupation economist
Employer University of Michigan
Board member of
Spouse Robert Freeman Whitman (a professor of English), June 23, 1956
Children Malcolm Russell Whitman
Laura Mariette Whitman
Parents John von Neumann (mathematician)
Mariette (Kovesi) von Neumann (later Mrs. J.B.H. Kuper)
Notes

Marina von Neumann Whitman (born March 6, 1935) is Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business as well as The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She is also a member of the board of directors at the Peterson Institute.[1]

Professor Whitman was educated at Radcliffe College and Columbia University. During 1973/74, she served on Richard Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers. She was a director at the Council on Foreign Relations between 1977 and 1987.

Her father was noted mathematician John von Neumann.

Contents

Career

  • Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, administrative assistant, 1956–57
  • Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association, Pittsburgh, PA
    • consultant, 1961
    • staff economist Economic Study of the Pittsburgh Region (also sponsored by Center for Economic Studies), 1962
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • lecturer in economics, 1963
    • assistant professor, 1963–66
    • associate professor, 1966–71
    • professor of economics, 1971–73
    • Distinguished Public Service Professor of Economics, 1973–79
    • administrative officer of department, 1965
  • General Motors Corp., New York City
    • vice-president and chief economist, 1979–85
    • vice-president and group executive for Public Affairs, 1985–92
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, professor of business administration and public policy, 1992 to current day.
  • Council of Economic Advisers
    • senior staff economist, 1970–71
    • member, 1972–73
  • Princeton University, Princeton NJ, board of trustees, 1980-90

Memberships

Publications

  • The United States Investment Guaranty Program and Private Foreign Investment, 1959.
  • (Contributor) Economic Study of the Pittsburgh Region, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1963.
  • Government Risk-Sharing in Foreign Investment, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1965.
  • International and Interregional Payment Adjustment: A Synthetic View, 1967.
  • Special Bibliography in International Economics, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1967.
  • Policies for Internal and External Balance, 1970
  • U.S. Economic Policy in an Era of Détente, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 1973.
  • From Farm Policy to Food Policy, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Washington, DC), 1974.
  • Sustaining the International Economic System: Issues for U.S. Policy, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 1977.
  • Reflections of Interdependence: Issues for Economic Theory and U.S. Policy, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979.
  • International Trade and Investment: Two Perspectives, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 1981.
  • (Contributor) Andrew J. Pierre, editor, Unemployment and Growth in the Western Economies, Council on Foreign Relations (New York, NY), 1984.
  • (Contributor) John N. Yochelson, editor, Breaking the Economic Impasse: An Urgent Quadrangular Agenda, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC), 1987.
  • "Flexible Markets, Flexible Firms," The American Enterprise, May-June 1994
  • "Using Board Guidelines As A Strategic Tool," The Corporate Board, September/October 1995
  • "Has Global Competition Killed the Socially Responsible Corporation?" in John W. Houck and Oliver F. Williams (eds.), Is the Good Corporation Dead? Social Responsibility in a Global Economy, 1996
  • (Contributor) John W. Houck and Oliver F. Williams, editors, Is the Good Corporation Dead?: Social Responsibility in a Global Economy, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1996.
  • "Labor Market Adjustment and Trade: Their Interaction in the Triad" in Benjamin Cohen (ed.), International Trade and Finance: New Frontiers for Research, 1997
  • "Trade and Growth: Restoring the Virtuous Circle" in Jerry Jasinowski (ed)., The Rising Tide: A Path Towards Higher Growth and Economic Prosperity, 1998
  • New World, New Rules: The Changing Role of the American Corporation, Harvard Business School Press (Boston, MA), 1999.
  • "The Open Economy Macromodel: Interactions Between Theoretical Developments and Real-World Behavior," in Arie Arnon and Warren Young (eds.), The Open Economy Macromodel: Past, Present and Future, 2002
  • American Capitalism and Global Convergence (2003)

Additionally:

  • Contributor to "Princeton Studies in International Finance"
  • Contributor to periodicals, including

References

  1. ^ a b Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Document Number: H1000105765. Fee. Retrieved 2008-12-17. Entry Updated 2004-11-09.

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