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CHARLES F. ROOS
(1901–1958)
Director: September 1934 – January 1937
Advisor: September 1937 – 1939
B.A., 1921; M.A., 1924; Ph.D., 1926; Rice Institute.
Charles F. Roos was director of research of the Cowles Commission from
September, 1934, to January, 1937. He was National Research Council Fellow in mathematics
1926–28; assistant professor of mathematics at Cornell University, 1928–31;
secretary of Section K (economics, sociology, and statistics), American Association for
the Advancement of Science, 1928–31, and permanent secretary and member of the
executive committee of that organization, 1931–33; fellow of the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1933; director of research, National Recovery
Administration, 1933–34; and professor of econometrics, Colorado College,
1934–37. He was one of the founders of the Econometric Society; secretary-treasurer,
1931–32; secretary, 1932–36; vice-president, 1947; and president, 1948. He is a
Fellow and has been a member of the council of the Society. He is a member of the
International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of both the American Statistical
Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He resigned from the staff of
the Commission in January 1937, to accept a business research position and later organized
the Institute of Applied Econometrics, Inc., now called The Econometric Institute, Inc. He
is now president of that organization. Approximately 60 papers on economics, statistics,
and mathematics have been published in the American Journal of Mathematics, Bulletin of
the American Mathematical Society, Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Econometrica,
Metron, Journal of Political Economy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. He is author of the following
books: Dynamic Economics, 1934; NRA Economic Planning, 1937; Economic
Measures, 1938; Dynamics of Automobile Demand, 1939; and Charting the Course
of Your Business, 1948.
[Abstracted from A Twenty
Year Research Report 1932–1952] |
