Gardiner Means, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gardiner Means

American economist

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1896

Place of Birth: Windham, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1988

Profession: writer, economist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Gardiner Coit Means (June 8, 1896 in Windham, Connecticut – February 15, 1988 in Vienna, Virginia) was an American economist who worked at Harvard University, where he met lawyer-diplomat Adolf A.
Berle.
Together they wrote the seminal work of corporate governance, The Modern Corporation and Private Property.
During the New Deal, Means served as an economic adviser to Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Henry A.
Wallace.