Peter Tinsley, an economist who had a long career at the United States Federal Reserve and then taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of London, died peacefully March 19, 2018. He was 79.
In 1961 Tinsley graduated from Hobart and William Smith College. He then worked at McKinsey & Co. before earning a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1966. In 1965 he had joined the staff of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve as an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics. He retired in 1998 as a deputy associate director of the division after 33 years of service.
From 1998 to 2003 he taught on the faculty of economics and politics at Cambridge, and from 2006 to 2014, Tinsley was a full professor in the department of economics, mathematics, and statistics at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Tinsley loved economic research and teaching. He was working on a graduate textbook on economic policy to be published by Cambridge University Press. For more than 40 years, he enjoyed vacationing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with his family.
He is survived by his second wife, Marylee; two daughters; a stepson; and four grandchildren.
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