John Whitefield Kendrick


John Whitefield Kendrick was a pioneer in productivity measurement and economic accounting.
Kendrick worked as an economist from 1946 to 1953 at the Office of Business Economics, the predecessor to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and from 1955 to 1988 as a professor at George Washington University. In 1963 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Education

Kendrick received a bachelor's degree in history in 1937 and a master's degree in economics in 1939 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1955 he received a doctorate from George Washington University.
Dr. Kendrick authored more than a dozen books on economics and productivity.

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