Edward C. Harwood, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Edward C. Harwood

American academic

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1900

Date of Death: 16-Dec-1980

Profession: engineer, economist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Edward C.
Harwood (October 28, 1900 – December 16, 1980) was a 20th-century economist, philosopher of science, and investment advisor who is most known for founding the nonprofit American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in 1933, which entity survives today in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
AIER is a scientific research organization specialized in economics.
It is one of the oldest nonprofit research organizations in the U.S.
It is the parent of a for-profit subsidiary, American Investment Services, Inc.Harwood also established the Behavioral Research Council (BRC) in the early 1950s with two sociologists, George A.
Lundberg and Stuart C.
Dodd, both professors at the University of Washington.
BRC was taken over by AIER in 1984, but some of its work continues tangentially at another nonprofit entity Harwood created called the Progress Foundation (PF), now based in Zurich, Switzerland.
More specifically, today PF concerns itself with "conducting and disseminating independent research that fosters greater understanding of the factors that contribute to human progress".