Professor
Henry Rosovsky
(
–
)
1927
2022
Harvard University
;
Cambridge, MA
Economist; Educator; Academic administrator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Economics
Elected
1969
Henry Rosovsky is the Geyser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. His publications include Capital Formation in Japan (1961), Quantitative Japanese Economic History (1961), Japanese Economic Growth (with K. Ohkawa, 1973) and The University: An Owner's Manual (1990). He taught economics, history and Japanese and Korean studies at the University of California at Berkeley until 1965. Thereafter, he was at Harvard as Professor of Economics (1965-1996), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (1973-1991), and, briefly in both 1984 and 1987, Acting President of Harvard. He has taught as a visiting professor in Japan and Israel and has worked variously as a consultant with the United States government, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and UNESCO.
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