Michael C. Lovell

Michael Christopher Lovell (April 11, 1930 – December 20, 2018) was an American economist. He was the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Science at Wesleyan University from 1969 to 2002, professor of economics at Carnegie-Mellon from 1963 to 1969, and assistant professor of economics at Yale from 1958 to 1963.^[1]

Michael C. Lovell
Born	(1930-04-11)April 11, 1930 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	December 20, 2018(2018-12-20) (aged 88) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University Stanford University Reed College
Doctoral advisor	Wassily Leontief
Influences	Edwin Mills Guy Orcutt
Academic work
Institutions	Wesleyan University Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral students	Dale T. Mortensen Edward C. Prescott
Notable ideas	Frisch–Waugh–Lovell theorem
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lovell earned his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on inventories that was later published in parts in Econometrica.^[2][3]

Lovell's older brother Hugh Gilbert Lovell was also an economist.^[4] Their father, R. Ivan Lovell, was a professor of history at Willamette University from 1937 to 1966.

Michael C. Lovell died on December 20, 2018, at the age of 88.^[5]