H. Gregg Lewis (1914–1992)

Daniel Hamermesh

Chapter 23 in The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, 2022, pp 573-594 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract H. Gregg Lewis did fundamental research outlining the economic effects of trade unions and considering how to measure them carefully. He also laid out the theory of the supply and demand for labour in careful detail that has underlain economists’ thinking about these outcomes. Aside from innovating modern-style research in labour economics, his work provided an exemplar of care in thinking about and measuring economic phenomena. Lewis’s study of labour markets foreshadowed numerous subsequent fundamental articles, including theories of hedonic prices and of wage selectivity. Supervising numerous Chicago PhD dissertations, all of which heavily bore his stamp and two of which were by future Nobel Prize winners, he contributed indirectly to the development of applied microeconomics through several later generations of researchers.

Keywords: Economics of unions; Labour demand; Labour supply; Chicago dissertations; General equilibrium; Empirical methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01775-9_23

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