Editing Herbert Stein (section)

{{Short description|American economist (1916–1999)}}
{{About|the economist|the American football player|Herb Stein}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Herbert Stein
| office              = 9th Chair of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]]
| president           = {{ubl|[[Richard Nixon]]|[[Gerald Ford]]}}
| term_start          = January 1, 1972
| term_end            = August 31, 1974
| predecessor         = [[Paul McCracken (economist)|Paul McCracken]]
| successor           = [[Alan Greenspan]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1916|8|27}}
| birth_place         = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1999|9|8|1916|8|27}}}}
| death_place         = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| education           = {{ubl|[[Williams College]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}|[[University of Chicago]] {{small|([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}}}
| module              = {{Infobox Economist
|child            = yes
|field            = {{ubl|[[Economic policy]]|[[Macroeconomics]]}}
|school_tradition = [[Chicago school of economics]]
|influences       = [[Milton Friedman]]}}
| children            = 2, including [[Ben Stein]]
}}

'''Herbert Stein''' (August 27, 1916 – September 8, 1999) was an American [[economist]], a senior fellow at the [[American Enterprise Institute]], and a member of the board of contributors of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. He was the chairman of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] under [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]]. From 1974 to 1984, he was the A. Willis Robertson Professor of Economics at the [[University of Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia Judaica|last=Ronall|first=Joachim O.|publisher=Macmillan Reference USA|year=2007|edition=2nd|volume=19|location=Detroit|pages=178–179}}</ref>