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John T. Dunlop, current chairman of the Economics Department became the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy on January 1.
He succeeded Edward H. Chamberlin who retired from the Harvard faculty last summer.
Dunlop, a labor economist and student of technological change, is a member of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. He has participated in labor-management mediations in the coal, railroad, atomic energy, and construction industries.
Dunlop's studies have appeared in such books as "Wage Determination Under Trade Unions" and "Industrial Relations Systems." He is chairman and editor of the Wertheim Committee which publishes a series of books on industrial relations and labor economics.
Dunlop received the A.B. degree in 1935 and the Ph.D. in 1939 from the University of California. He spent the year 1938-1939 at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, as a Social Science Research Council Fellow. Dunlop became professor of Economics in 1950.
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