Origins & Early Life

Dale Thomas Mortensen (February 2, 1939 – January 9, 2014) was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Mortensen was born in Enterprise, Oregon. He received his BA in economics from Willamette University in 1961 and his PhD in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. Mortensen had been on the faculty of Northwestern University since 1965 and a professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management since 1980.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

He was the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Aarhus University, from 2006 to 2010. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Christopher A. Pissarides from the London School of Economics and Peter A. Diamond from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 "for their analysis of markets with search frictions". In May 2011, Mortensen was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Willamette University.

Enduring Legacy & Impact

He was married to Beverly Mortensen, also a Northwestern Professor. Mortensen's research focused on labor economics, macroeconomics...

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