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American economist
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Male
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Birth:
8 June 1930(Kingston, Ulster County, New York, U.S.A.)
Death:
17 November 1997
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Biography
Edwin Mansfield (1930–1997) was a professor of economics at University of Pennsylvania from 1964 and until his death. From 1985 he was also a director of the Center for Economics and Technology.
Edwin Mansfield is best known for his scientific results concerning technological change / diffusion of innovations, and also for his textbooks on microeconomics, managerial economics, and econometrics that were published in millions copies and translated into foreign languages.