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Neil Cornelius Wolverton Chamberlain (May 18, 1915 – September 14, 2006) was an American economist who was the Armand G. Erpf Professor of Modern Corporations of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Before that he was a professor in the Department of Economics at Yale University. His scholarly efforts concerned industrial relations and labor economics, the economies of corporations and corporate planning, national planning, and social values and corporate social responsibility. He was the author of nineteen books, editor of six more, published numerous articles in academic journals, and wrote an intellectual memoir as well.〔 His range of research and writing was unusually wide, but his biggest contribution to the field of economics was in the study of industrial relations and especially in his analysis of bargaining power.〔 ==Early life, education, and writing== Chamberlain was born on May 18, 1915, in Charlotte, North Carolina, as the son of Henry Bryan Chamberlain and the former Elizabeth Wolverton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=People Search ) After search, entry found and purchased is for "Neil Cornelius Wolverton Chamberlain (Deceased) / economist, emeritus educator; Born: 1915"〕 When he was two years old the family moved to Ohio and he grew up in Lakewood, Ohio. From the time of junior high school on, he was interested in creative writing, working on poems, short stories, and an incomplete novel.〔Chamberlain, ''Intellectual Odyssey'', p. vii.〕 While at Lakewood High School, which he began as the Great Depression was starting,〔 he took third prize in national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards with a short story called "Hunger". Another short story, "A Millionaire's Debut", was published in the ''Cleveland News''. During vacations when he was 17 and 18, Chamberlain traveled around the country by hitchhiking and freighthopping.〔 A San Francisco newspaper recounted his wandering journey with another 18-year-old friend from Cleveland to there, in which they started with only $3.77, washing dishes for funds while staying in hobo jungles and sometimes encountering long waits for cars to pick them up. By the age of 19, he said he had traveled some and seen 41 states.〔 He offered to give 15-minute talks, titled "The Category of Dreamers" and concerning the state of youth, in the Lakewood area.〔"The Category of Dreamers", flyer, c. 1934.〕 He attended Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, having been granted a scholarship, and initially majored in history.〔Chamberlain, ''Intellectual Odyssey'', p. 1.〕 He was elected Phi Beta Kappa as a senior. He was also a poet there, winning first prize as a junior and second prize as a senior in the Rupert Hughes Prizes in Poetry.〔 In 1937, he graduated with an A.B. degree ''magna cum laude''.〔 Chamberlain was initially primarily interested in writing as a career possibility.〔 While a freshman he was also working as editor of the ''People's Penny Weekly'', a magazine intended to provide local coverage of Lakewood.〔 During his senior year in college he worked part-time at the Cleveland bureau of the International News Service.〔Chamberlain, ''Intellectual Odyssey'', p. 2.〕 There he covered many significant developments in labor relations during the mid-1930s.〔 These included the Fisher Body sit-down strike against General Motors.〔 By his account he then tried two other writing and editing jobs before, after a year's lapse, returning to his education to give himself an understanding of the forces at play in these labor disputes.〔Chamberlain, ''Intellectual Odyssey'', p. 3.〕 At the Graduate School at Western Reserve University, he earned an M.A. degree in economics in 1939. At the same time he wrote a play about the Chrysler Auto Strike of 1939, ''From Now to Hallelujah'', which he later said was accepted for production at a local theater group but never put on due to a scheduling conflict.〔 He also later recalled functioning as executive secretary of a successful campaign to amend the Cleveland city charter to bring most civil service employees under the merit system.〔Chamberlain, ''Intellectual Odyssey'', p. 147.〕 Chamberlain then obtained a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University in 1942.〔 The topic of his dissertation was "The Nature and Practice of Collective Bargaining".〔 By now his practice of other forms of writing was being replaced by his interest in economic research.〔 During the latter portion of this time he was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution.〔 Chamberlain married the former Mariam Kenosian in 1942.〔 During the World War II period, he was in the United States Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1946, where he began as an ensign and finished as an lieutenant.〔 There he did work related to cryptography. Meanwhile his wife worked as an analyst for the Office of Strategic Services during the war and then earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1950.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neil W. Chamberlain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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