John Kendrick Dead at Age 92
John Kendrick, a long-time member of the senior research staff at the NBER, passed away on November 17, 2009, at the age of 92. In addition to his NBER role, he was a member of the economics faculty at George Washington University -- where he had earned his Ph.D. -- for many years. He also served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Commence in the mid-1970s.
Kendrick made pioneering contributions to productivity analysis, national income accounting, and the estimation of capital stocks. He was one of the first to employ the concept that today is known as total factor productivity. His 1961 NBER volume on Productivity Trends in the United States, with Maude Pech, remains a classical contribution to the long-term analysis of productivity trends.