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Joseph

John Spengler (19 November 1902

– 2 January 1991) was an American economist, statistician, and historian of

economic thought. A recipient of the 1951 John Frederick Lewis

Award of the American Philosophical

Society and the 1981 Distinguished Fellow Award from the

History of Economics Society, he was Professor Emeritus of

Economics at Duke University at

the time of his death. Spengler was born in Piqua, Ohio. He graduated from the Piqua High School and initially studied journalism at

college, but dropped out after his first year to become a crime reporter. A year later he returned to higher education,

at first studying sociology and political science, but eventually gravitating

to economics. He received his B.A., M.A., and PhD from Ohio State University,

where his 1930 doctoral dissertation was a comparative study on the fertility

rates of native-born and immigrant women in the United States. After a stint teaching at the University of Arizona he

joined the faculty of Duke University in 1932, initially as a visiting

professor, and became a permanent member of the faculty in 1934. He was to

remain there until his retirement as the James B. Duke Professor of

Economics in 1972. With Earl J. Hamilton, Spengler established the university's first

graduate level program in Economic History as well as the History of Political

Economy (HOPE) research group. During

World War II, he worked for the Office of Price

Administration as the price executive for the Southeastern region of

the United States and over the years held several other advisory posts to the

US government and the United Nations. His interest in population studies and

the demographic aspects of economics reflected in his doctoral dissertation,

became a major focus of his research and writing throughout his career. His

first book, France Faces Depopulation, published in 1938, examined

the cultural and political causes of France's pre-World War II population

decline, and one of his last major books was The

Economics of Individual and Population Aging, published in 1980. In 1972,

Duke University Press published a collection of his classic essays in the

area: Population Economics: Selected Essays of Joseph J. Spengler. Joseph

Spengler died in Durham, North Carolina from Alzheimer's disease at

the age of 88. He was survived by his wife, the former Dorothy

Marie Kress. The couple married in 1927 and were co-authors of

"Maintenance of Postwar Full Employment" (1944). Spengler's 1978

book, Facing Zero Population Growth: Reactions and Interpretations,

Past and Present has the dedication: To Dorothy Kress Spengler, my

wife, companion, and co-worker for fifty years In

2004, the History of Economics Society established the annual Joseph J.

Spengler Prize for the best book published on the history of economics.

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