{{Short description|American economist (1930–1997)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Edwin Mansfield | birth_date = June 8, 1930 | death_date = November 17, 1997 | occupation = Professor of economics }}
'''Edwin Mansfield''' (June 8, 1930 – November 17, 1997) was a professor of economics at University of Pennsylvania from 1964 and until his death. From 1985 he was also a director of the Center for Economics and Technology.<ref>{{cite news |title=Edwin Mansfield, 67, Scholar Of Economics and Technology |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/21/business/edwin-mansfield-67-scholar-of-economics-and-technology.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=11 July 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=21 November 1997 |page=B11}}</ref>
Edwin Mansfield is best known for his scientific results concerning technological change / diffusion of innovations, and also for his textbooks on microeconomics, managerial economics, and econometrics that were published in millions copies and translated into foreign languages.
==References== {{reflist}} * Diamond, Arthur M. Jr. 2003. "Edwin Mansfield's Contributions to the Economics of Technology," ''Research Policy'', 32(9), pp. [ftp://ftp.ige.unicamp.br/pub/CT001%20SocCiencia/Agosto%2030/Diamond%20on%20Mansfield.pdf 1607-17]{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. * Mansfield, Edwin, et al. 2009. ''Managerial Economics Theory, Applications, and Cases'', 7th Edition. Norton. [http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail-contents.aspx?ID=13385 Contents]. * Scherer, F.M. 2005. "Edwin Mansfield: An Appreciation," ''Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield'', Part I, Springer, pp.[https://doi.org/10.1007%2F0-387-25022-0_1 1]-7. [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1503896 Abstract.] * Teece, David J. 2005. "Technology and Technology Transfer: Mansfieldian Inspirations and Subsequent Developments," ''Journal of Technology Transfer'', 30(1/2), Springer, pp. [https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10961-004-4355-x 17]-33. [https://ssrn.com/abstract=1500957 Abstract.]
==External links== * [http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v44/n14/obitmansfield.html An obituary on the UPENN website]
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