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unusual facts about H. F. M. Prescott


H. F. M. Prescott

H.F.M. Prescott wrote only one thriller, Dead and Not Buried, and this was adapted for CBS's Climax! television series under the screen title of Bury Me Later in 1954.


Costas Azariadis

His doctoral dissertation at Carnegie Mellon was advised by Edward C. Prescott and Robert Lucas.

Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

Embry-Riddle began in 1925 as the Embry-Riddle Company, an aircraft dealer and airmail provider, founded by Talton Higbee Embry and John Paul Riddle in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Prescott, Arizona, United States campus offers 13 bachelor's in Aeronautical Science (professional pilot), Aeronautics, Applied Meteorology, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Studies, Aviation Business Administration, Aviation Environmental Science, Global Security and Intelligence Studies, Air Traffic Management, and Space Physics.

Hodrick–Prescott filter

The filter was popularized in the field of economics in the 1990s by economists Robert J. Hodrick and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Edward C. Prescott.

James Prescott

James W. Prescott (born c.1930), United States developmental psychologist

James W. Prescott

Inspired by Harry Harlow's famous experiments on rhesus monkeys, which established a link between neurotic behavior and isolation from a care-giving mother, Prescott further proposed that a key component to development comes from the somesthetic processes (body touch) and vestibular-cerebellar processes (body movement) induced by mother-child interactions, and that deprivation of this stimulation causes brain abnormalities.

Peter S. Prescott

In January, 1970, Prescott published A World of Our Own: Notes on Life and Learning in a Boys' Preparatory School, which described his alma mater, The Choate School, (now Choate Rosemary Hall).

Rare disasters

Edward C. Prescott and Rajnish Mehra first proposed the Equity Premium Puzzle in 1985.

Real business cycle theory

The one which currently dominates the academic literature on real business cycle theory was introduced by Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott in their seminal 1982 work Time to Build And Aggregate Fluctuations.


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