About Paul Homan
Lived 1893 – 1969 (aged 75–76). Paul Homan was an American economist.
Paul Thomas Homan (1893–1969) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at Cornell University from 1929 to 1947.
Early life Homan was born in Indianola, Iowa.
Homan earned bachelor's degrees from Willamette College, and with a Rhodes Scholarship, the University of Oxford, graduating in 1919.
His papers are held at the University of Sussex, England, and were donated in 1969 by his wife, Matilda Etches Homan.
Publications Contemporary economic thought (1928)
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American economist (1893–1969)
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