Geoffrey Moore | |
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Commissioner of Labor Statistics | |
In office March 1969–January 1973 | |
President | Richard Nixon |
Preceded by |
Ben Burdestky (Acting) |
Succeeded by |
Ben Burdetsky (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Rochester, New York | February 28, 1914
Died | March 9, 2000 Bloomfield, Connecticut | (aged 86)
Education |
Harvard University University of California |
Geoffrey Hoyt Moore (February 28, 1914 – March 9, 2000), whom The Wall Street Journal called "the father of leading indicators", [1] spent several decades working on business cycles at the National Bureau of Economic Research, [2] where he helped build on the work of his mentors, Wesley Clair Mitchell and Arthur F. Burns. [3] [4] Moore also served as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from March 1969 to January 1973. [1]
In 1946 Moore was teaching statistics at New York University and one of his students was Alan Greenspan, [5] later chairman of the Federal Reserve, who would tell The New York Times that Moore was "a major force in economic statistics and business-cycle research for more than a half-century." [4] In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [6] In 1996 Moore founded the Economic Cycle Research Institute in New York City. [4]