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Harry Gordon Johnson (26 May 1923 – 9 May 1977) was a Canadian economist who studied topics such as international trade and international finance. Nobel laureate James Tobin said about him: "For the economics profession throughout the world, the third quarter of this century was an Age of Johnson.
...
It was his impact on his own profession ...
that justifies calling the era his Age."Appointed professor of economics at Manchester University in 1956, be left on being appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago from 1959 (and from 1969, the Charles F.
Grey Distinguished Service Professor) until his death in 1977.
He was also Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics from 1966 until 1974.
And he briefly was professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva until his death.
He was twice Editor of the Journal of Political Economy.
He had a stroke at age 49 and died prematurely from a second stroke at age 53.In 1976 the Canadian government named him an officer of the Order of Canada and in 1977 he was named a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association. The Canadian Economics Association awards an annual Harry G.
Johnson Prize for the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Economics.

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