Born St. Louis, Missouri, 27 June 1918
Married Adelaide Boehm, 1942
Son, Evan, born 1944
Daughter Holly (Mrs. Michael Kazarinoff), born 1948
Address

1446 Karlin Court
East Lansing, Michigan 48823
(517)332-7129
e-mail: suits@pilot.msu.edu

Present Position

Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University

Education

The University of Michigan:
A.B. (Philosophy) 1940
M.A. (Economics 1941
Ph.D. (Economics) 1949
Honors
Phi Eta Sigma, 1937
Phi Kappa Phi, 1940
Fellow, Econometric Society, 1967
Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1968
Distinguished Faculty Award, Michigan State University, 1980

Employment History

Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University 1987-
Professor of Economics, Michigan State University, 1974-87
Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merrill College, University
of California, Santa Cruz, 1970-1974
Professor of Economics, and Director, Research Seminar in
Quantitative Economics, University of Michigan 1959-1969
Associate Professor, University of Michigan, 1955-59
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1950-55
Instructor, Economics, University of Michigan, 1947-50
(Classified as a conscientious objector to military service and
assigned to Civilian Public Service for the duration of
World War II, 1942-46)
Teaching Fellow, Economics, University of Michigan 1941-42; 1946-
l947

Visiting Appointments

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1952-53
Director, American Studies Seminar, and Lecturer at Kyoto
University and at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 1958
Research Associate, Center of Economic Research, Athens, Greece,
1962-63
Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii, Summer
1966, academic year 1973-74, Fall semester, 1976
Fellow, East-West Population Institute, 1979-l986 (in Hawaii,
January to March, each year.)
Professor of Economics, China - U.S. National Academy of Science
Program for Graduate Economic Education in China: The
People's University, Beijing, China, Fall 1985;
------- Fudan University, Shanghai, Fall, 1987
Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College, Fall Semester 1988
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Kalamazoo College, Spring 1989

Administrative and Related Activities

Member, Executive Committee, Economics Department, University of
Michigan, 1955-60
Member, Executive Committee, Detroit Area Study, 1953-58
Member, Executive Committee, Program for Mathematics and the
Social Sciences, 1953-58
Member, Ford Foundation Committee for the Self-evaluation of the
Behavioral Sciences (University of Michigan), 1953-54
Member, Program Committee, Conference on the Economic Outlook,
1953-1970
Chairman of the Board of Studies in Economics, UCSC, 1970-74
Deputy Provost, Merrill College, UCSC, 1971-73
Member, Senate Budget Committee, UCSC, 1971-73; Chairman, 1972-73
Chairman, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, College of Business,
Michigan State University, 1975-79
Member, University Curriculum Committee, Michigan State
University, 1975-78

Public Service and Related Activities

Associate Chairman, Program Committee, The Econometric Society
Annual Meetings, 1953
Special Consultant, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-70
Consultant, President's Council of Economic Advisors, 1963-69
Director, University of Michigan Training Program in Unemployment
Insurance Cost Analysis and Benefit Financing, 1963
Member, National Science Advisory Panel for Economics and
Geography, 1963-65
Consultant, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1964
Consultant, California Department of Administration, 1964
Consultant, State of Hawaii, 1965
Consultant, Michigan Department of Economic Expansion, 1963-70
Consultant on Econometric Training, International Monetary Fund,
1968-73

Consultant, Michigan Governor's Commission on Electrical
Power Alternatives, 1975
Consultant, U.S. Commission for the Review of the National Policy
Toward Gambling, 1975-76
Consultant, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan,
1975-77
Consultant, Highway Safety Research Institute, University of
Michigan, 1977-80

Selected Publications

Theory and Application of Econometric Models, Athens, Center of
Economic Research, 1963
An Econometric Model of the Greek Economy, Athens, Center of
Economic Research, 1964
Principles of Economics, Harper and Row, 1970;
_________, Second edition, 1973
_________, Japanese translation, Japan UNI Agency, Tokyo, 1978
Urbanization and Migration in ASEAN Development, National
Institute for Research Advancement, Tokyo; University of Hawaii
Press, Honolulu, 1985. Edited with Philip M. Hauser and Naohiro
Ogawa.
An Econometric Model of Michigan, Technical Report No. 2, State
Resource Planning Program, Michigan Department of Commerce, 1966

Study Guide to Accompany Principles of Economics, Harper and Row,
1970;
_________, Second edition, 1973
Gambling in the United States: Final Report to the Commission on
the Review of the Public Policy Toward Gambling, Ann Arbor,
Survey Research Center, 1976 (with Maureen Kallick, Ted Dielman
and Judith Hybels)
Household Mailstream Study, Final Report. Institute of Social
Research, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978 (with Maureen Kallick and others.)
Gains from Population Control: Results of an Econometic Model,
Papers of the East-West Population Institute, No. 49, 1978 (with
Andrew Mason)

Spline Functions Fitted by Standard Regression Methods, Center of
Planning and Economic Research, Monograph No. 32, Athens, 1977
(with Andrew Mason and Louis Chan) Reprint of an article in the
Review of Economics and Statistics
Population Change and Economic Development: Lessons from the
Japanese Experience 1885-1920, NUPRI Research Paper Series No. 2,
Tokyo, 1981 (with Naohiro Ogawa)

U.S. Farm Migration, NUPRI Research Paper Series No. 12, Tokyo,
1983

Preferences of an Aging Labor Force Toward Retirement Options,
NUPRI Research Paper Series No. 13, Tokyo, 1983 (with Naohiro
Ogawa)
Retirement Policy and Japanese Workers: Some Results of an Opinion
Survey. East-West Population Institute, Reprint Series 162 (1984)
(with Naohiro Ogawa)

An application of the Harris-Todaro model to Japan. Nihon Univ.
Pop. Res. Institute Research Series No. 18 (1984) (with Naohiro
Ogawa)
U.S. net farm migration: an application of the Harris-Todaro
model. East-West Pop. Inst. Reprint Series 194 (1985)
Population Growth and Economic Development: Lessons from Selected
Asian Countries, United Nations Fund for Population Activities,
1987. (With Andrew Mason and others)