Lester Dean Taylor

Lester D. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, where he taught for 36 years. He has a B. A. in economics and mathematics from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Prior to Arizona, he taught economics at Harvard and the University of Michigan. He was a senior staff economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C., in 1964-65 and spent 18 months in 1967-68 with a group of Harvard advisors to the Ministry of Planning of the Government of Colombia. He is the author (or co-author) of more than 80 journal articles in economics and a dozen or so books. Recent published books include the third edition (co-authored with H.S. Houthakker) of Consumer Demand in The United States (2010), revision of his 2000 book, Capital, Accumulation, and Money (2010), an entirely new book on the internal structure of consumption expenditures (2013),, and a book (2016) on the western landscape artist, Archie Boyd Teater (1901-1978). He also has a nearly completed monograph on prooflike U.S. Morgan silver dollars. When not reading, writing, or doing research, he enjoys his two children and five grandchildren, travel, and golf. He resides in Tucson, AZ, and Jackson Hole, WY, and can be reached at myros@att.net.