On Thursday, May 26 Professor Jorgenson received the degree of doctor honoris causa from the University of Valencia in assembly at the building of La Nau.
To quote from the laudation, which highlights Dale's path breaking May 1963 paper in the AER. This paper "proved seminal to his career and that of many other economists. It was brief, just 13 pages long, and was called “Capital Theory and Investment Behavior”. It was published in one of the top journals in our field, the American Economic Review, and would become extremely relevant. To such an extent that half a century later in 2011, it was chosen as one of the twenty most influential articles published in the first hundred years of the journal. The article was selected on account of “its intellectual quality, its influence on the ideas and practices of economists, and its relevance and scope”.
Congratulations on this recognition, Dale!
Dale W. Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. Jorgenson has been honored with membership in the American Philosophical Society (1998), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1978), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969). He was elected to Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1982), the American Statistical Association (1965), and the Econometric Society (1964). He was awarded honorary doctorates by Uppsala University (1991), the University of Oslo (1991), Keio University (2003), the University of Mannheim (2004), the University of Rome (2006), the Stockholm School of Economics (2007), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007), and Kansai University (2009).
Jorgenson served as President of the American Economic Association in 2000 and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Association in 2001. He was a Founding Member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Research Council in 1991 and served as Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2006. He also served as Chairman of Section 54, Economic Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2003 and was President of the Econometric Society in 1987.