Arthur M. Okun 1928-1980

Robert E. Hall and

Robert E. Hall Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics - Stanford University

Robert J. Gordon

Robert J. Gordon Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences - Northwestern University

ARTHUR M. OKUN died unexpectedly from a heart attack on March 23, 1980, in Washington, D.C., at the age of fifty-one. The nation has lost its most inventive and effective policy economist in his prime. His death came just six weeks before the tenth anniversary meeting of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, and just months before the completion of his long-awaited book, Prices and Quantities: A Macroeconomic Analysis.