Arthur Goldberger

Arthur Stanley Goldberger (November 20, 1930 – December 11, 2009) was an econometrician and an economist. He worked with Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein on the development of the Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic model at the University of Michigan.

He spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he helped build the Department of Economics. He wrote classic graduate and undergraduate econometrics textbooks, including Econometric Theory (1964), A Course in Econometrics (1991) and Introductory Econometrics (1998). Among his many accomplishments, he published a number of articles critically evaluating the literature on the heritability of IQ and other behavioral traits.

Selected publications

(1964) Goldberger and Lawrence Klein. Econometric Model of the U. S., Nineteen Twenty-Nine to Nineteen Fifty-Two. (1964) Goldberger. Econometric Theory (Wiley Publications in Applied Statistics) .John Wiley & Sons Inc.. . (1970) Goldberger. Impact Multipliers and Dynamic Properties of the Klein-Goldberger Model (Contributions to Economic Analysis). North-Holland Publishing Company. . (1981) Goldberger. A Course in Econometrics. Harvard University Press. .