Jacob Marschak — economist with roots in the Russian Empire
Jacob Marschak (23 July 1898, Kiev – 27 July 1977, Los Angeles) was an economist known for work on the elasticity of demand, early econometrics and choice under uncertainty, and for pioneering information economics. He was director of research at the Cowles Commission from 1943 to 1948 and president of the Econometric Society in 1946. He died shortly before he was due to become president of the American Economic Association.
Tracing the roots — Kiev (Kiev Governorate)
Born in Kiev (Russian Empire) in 1898 into a Jewish family, the son of a jeweller. A Menshevik as a student, in 1918 he was labour minister in the Terek Soviet Republic. He emigrated to Germany in 1919, moved to Oxford in 1933 and to the United States in 1939.
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Kiev (Kiev Governorate). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.