Stephen Goldfeld was a Princeton University

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 professor and provost who served on the Council of Economic Advisers

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 during the Carter administration

Jimmy Carter

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Goldfeld received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University

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 in 1960 at the age of twenty and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 in 1963 at the age of twenty three, when he joined the Princeton faculty. As an academic he specialized in financial institutions and in econometrics

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. He was an associate editor of the American Economic Review

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and other major economic journals. He died in 1995 at the age of 55 of lung cancer.

Noted publications

• (1966) Commercial Bank Behavior and Economic Activity, North-Holland Publishing Company

• (1971) (with R. E. Quandt), Nonlinear Methods in Econometrics, North-Holland Publishing Company

• (1981) (with L. V. Chandler), The Economics of Money and Banking, Harper & Row.