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Tibor de Scitovsky also known as Tibor Scitovsky, (1910-2002) was an American economist. He was Associate Professor and Professor of Economics at Stanford University from 1946 through 1958 and Eberle Professor of Economics from 1970 until his retirement in 1976, when he became Professor Emeritus. In honor of his deep contributions to economic analysis, he was elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Life
Scitovsky was born in Hungary in 1910. As the de indicates, he was born into a noble family; his father held the post of Foreign Minister. He was educated at the University of Budapest (from which he held an undergraduate degree in law), University of Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. He came to the United States on a traveling fellowship. He enlisted in the United States Army, in counter-intelligence.
After a spell at Stanford he left for Berkeley in 1958 and remained there until 1968, although he was on leave to do research at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Starting as early as 1959, he began an examination of the nature of human well-being from a broader viewpoint than is customary among economists. In particular, he drew on the arts as an example of the nature of human aspiration. His 1976 book, The Joyless Economy, remains a major critique of modern and especially economic values.
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