Edward E. Leamer

Edward Emory Leamer born May 24, 1944 is the professor of economics & statistics at UCLA. He is Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of administration and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast.

He attended Princeton B.A., mathematics, 1966 & the University of Michigan M.A., mathematics, Ph.D., economics, 1970.

Leamer is the author of 4 books and over 100 articles on a range of subjects especially including applied econometrics and quantitative international economics.

Leamer was the vice presidential nominee on Laurence Kotlikoff's freelancer ticket in the 2016 US presidential election.

Leamer is known amongst economists for his paper "Let's gain the Con Out of Econometrics", widely refers to as Leamer's critique, which is said to keep on to catalyzed the execution of more rigorous research designs in the economic sciences.