Professor
Robert Summers
(
–
)
1922
2012
University of Pennsylvania
;
Philadelphia, PA
Economist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
2001
Renowned for his work on the construction of economic aggregates that can be consistently compared across countries. The Kravis-Summers-Heston international comparisons of incomes per head corrected for purchasing parity are now widely used. The Heston-Summers Penn World Tables have been the source of data for much of the modern empirical work on international comparisons of growth.
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