Editing Edwin Griswold Nourse

{{short description|American economist}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name        = Edwin Nourse
|image       = Council of Economic Advisors.gif
|caption     = Nourse (second from right) at the [[White House]] in July 1949
|office      = 1st Chair of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]]
|president   = [[Harry S. Truman]]
|term_start  = August 9, 1946
|term_end    = November 1, 1949
|predecessor = Position established
|successor   = [[Leon Keyserling]]
|birth_date  = {{birth date|1883|5|20}}
|birth_place = [[Lockport (city), New York|Lockport]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
|death_date  = {{death date and age|1974|4|7|1883|5|20}}
|death_place = [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Maryland]], U.S.
|party       = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|education   = [[Illinois Institute of Technology]]<br>[[Cornell University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[University of Chicago]] {{small|([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}
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'''Edwin Griswold Nourse''' (May 20, 1883 – April 7, 1974) was an American economist who served as the first chairman of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] from 1946 to 1949. 

==Early life and education==
Nourse was born in [[Lockport (city), New York|Lockport, New York]], Nourse moved to a western suburb of [[Chicago]] at the age of four months, and considered himself a [[Midwestern United States|Midwesterner]]. His father worked in the city as a supervisor of public school music. His sister, [[Alice Tisdale Hobart]], went on to become a bestselling novelist. In high school Nourse enjoyed English and history, and after spending a year at the [[Illinois Institute of Technology|Louis Institute]], went on to [[Cornell University]] with an interest in [[civil engineering]]. In 1903, he was caught in a wave of [[typhoid fever]] that hit campus; upon his return he decided to simply get his A.B., but also took several classes at the [[Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences|College of Agriculture]].<ref name=Library>{{cite web |first=Jerry N. |last=Hess |title=Oral History Interview with Dr. Edwin G. Nourse |url=http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/nourseeg.htm |publisher=Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum |date=1972-03-07 |access-date=2009-01-25}}</ref>

==Career==
Following college, Nourse taught for two years in high school, spent a year on graduate studies, and then taught at the [[Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania|Wharton School]], where he conceived of [[agricultural economics]]. From there he transited through the [[University of South Dakota]], the [[University of Arkansas]], [[Iowa State College]], and on to the [[University of Chicago]], where he received his Ph.D. in 1915 for the dissertation "The Chicago Produce Market: A Study of Market Mechanism as a Factor in Price Determination". He continued to study and write about [[agricultural cooperation]].<ref name=Library/>

Nourse was a friend of Harold Moulton, the first president of the [[Brookings Institution]], and in 1923 he convinced Nourse to come work on the agriculture side of the Institute of Economics. He remained there until 1946, moving from the head of the agriculture division to director of Institute of Economics in 1929 and then vice president in 1942.<ref name=Library/>

Two years later in July he met President [[Harry S. Truman]] for the first time by way of [[Charles Griffith Ross]] to speak about becoming member of the newly created [[Council of Economic Advisors]]; Nourse subsequently resigned from Brookings to become its first chairman, with [[Leon Keyserling]] as his vice-chairman and John D. Clark as a member.<ref name=Library/>

Nourse was an elected member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edwin Griswold Nourse |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/edwin-griswold-nourse |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Edwin+Nourse&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

== Selected publications ==
* Nourse, E. G., Tryon, F. G., [[Horace Bookwalter Drury|Drury, H. B.]], Leven, M., Moulton, H. G., & Lewis, C. ''America's capacity to produce.'' 1934.
* Nourse, Edwin Griswold, and [[Horace Bookwalter Drury]]. ''Industrial price policies and economic progress.'' 1938.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{PM20|FID=pe/022668}}

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