John Whitefield Kendrick

John Whitefield Kendrick (July 27, 1917, Brooklyn – November 17, 2009, Arlington, Virginia) was a pioneer in productivity measurement and economic accounting.^[1][2]

Kendrick worked as an economist from 1946 to 1953 at the Office of Business Economics, the predecessor to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and from 1955 to 1988 as a professor at George Washington University.^[1] In 1963 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.^[3]

Education[]

Kendrick received a bachelor's degree in history in 1937 and a master's degree in economics in 1939 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1955 he received a doctorate from George Washington University.

Dr. Kendrick authored more than a dozen books on economics and productivity.^[2]

Main Works[]

• Kendrick, John W. “Expanding Imputed Values in the National Income and Product Accounts.” The Review of Income and Wealth 25, no. 4 (December 1979): 349–363.
• Kendrick, John W.; Carl E. Jones. “Gross National Farm Product in Constant Dollars, 1910–1950.” Survey of Current Business 31 (September 1951): 12–19.
• Kendrick, John W., assisted by Maude R. Pech. Productivity Trends in the United States. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) General Series no. 71. Princeton University Press, 1961.
• Kendrick, John W. Postwar Productivity Trends in the United States. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1973.
• Kendrick, John W., assisted by Yvonne Lethem and Jennifer Rowley. The Formation and Stocks of Total Capital. NBER General Series no. 100. New York: Columbia University Press for NBER, 1976.
• Kendrick, John W. and Elliot S. Grossman. Productivity in the United States: Trends and Cycles. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
• Kendrick, John W. and Beatrice N. Vaccara (eds). New Developments in Productivity Measurement and Analysis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.

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