Dale W. Jorgenson

Dale Weldeau Jorgenson (May 7, 1933 – June 8, 2022) was an American economist. He was the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. He also taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997. He was born in Bozeman, Montana. In 1978, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Jorgenson supported carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions as a means of reducing global warming.
Jorgenson died on June 8, 2022 at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts from respiratory failure at the age of 89.