Lester Taylor

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Lester D. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, where he taught for 36 years. He has a PhD in economics from Harvard University, and taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan prior to Arizona. He was a senior staff economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, DC, in 1964–1965 and spent 18 months in 1967 – 1968 with the (then) Harvard Development Advisory service as an advisor to the Ministry of Planning of the Government of Colombia. He is the author (or co-author) of more than 80 journal articles and a dozen books, including Consumer Demand in The United States (with H.S. Houthakker), Capital, Accumulation and Money, and two well-known monographs on telecommunications demand.