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ALMOST EVERY FALL for most of the last dozen years, a Crimson reporter would call Otto Eckstein to ask the Warburg Professor of Economics why his course--"Ec 10"--was the most popular at Harvard. "So it's that time of year again," the friendly professor is reported to have said on one occasion, before launching into his usual explanation that the increasing usefulness of economics is why more than 1000 students once again crowded into Sanders Theater to hear his 12 o'clock lectures...
...Crimson was only one among many institutions and individuals who were touched by Otto Eckstein's warmth and sense of humor over the course of his more than 30 years at Harvard. When Eckstein died last month after a long bout with cancer, he left a legacy of caring for the hundreds of people in his life--from his professional colleagues in the Economics Department, to the businessmen and government officials he knew in his multi-faceted career, to the many undergraduate and graduate students he knew...
DIED. Otto Eckstein, 56, staunchly liberal German-born economist, Harvard professor, member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Lyndon Johnson and longtime participant on TIME'S Board of Economists, who promoted the science of econometric forecasting into an indispensable tool of government and business planning and founded a highly successful business, Data Resources Inc., which, when sold to McGraw-Hill in 1979, made him a multimillionaire; of cancer; in Boston...
...Eckstein is survived by his wife Harrier Mirkin Eckstein '55; a son Warren, two daughters, Felicia '85 and June; his mother Mrs. Hedwig Eckstein; and a brother Bernard...
...addition to his academic work Eckstein served on the boards of numerous organizations, including Radcliffe College, Belmont Hill School, the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Creaser Boston, investment firm Paine Webber Inc., and computer company, the Burroughs Organization...