Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic (died 1970)

Jacob Viner

Canadian economist (1892–1970)

Jacob Viner was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring" mentors of the early Chicago school of economics in the 1930s: he was one of the leading figures of the Chicago faculty. Paul Samuelson named Viner as one of…