Ronald E. Miller *61

Ron died in Seattle, Jan. 26, 2023. 

Born in Seattle Sept. 1, 1934, Ron earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at Harvard in 1955. His senior thesis won the Newcomen Prize in Business History, and part was published as “The Impact of the Aluminum Industry on the Pacific Northwest: A Regional Input-Output Analysis” in the journal Review of Economics and Statistics.

After studying at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich as a Fulbright scholar, Ron received a master’s degree in economics at the University of Washington in 1957 and a Ph.D. at Princeton in 1961. MIT Press published his dissertation as Domestic Airline Efficiency: An Application of Linear Programming.

With a focus on mathematical economic modeling, Ron joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1962 to 1995. He refocused his research attention on measuring interregional feedback effects in multiregional I-O models. His basic input-output (I-O) course was required for both graduate students and undergraduates in Penn’s Regional Science Department. Ron co–authored three editions of Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions with Peter D. Blair. For 33 years he served as managing editor of the Journal of Regional Science. 

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