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.
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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] |
