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...Gilbert, who received his doctorate from Harvard in 1930, was described yesterday by longtime friend and teacher Lamont University Professor Emeritus Edward S. Mason, as "a first rate economist who was very intense and forceful in applying his philosophies...
Richard V. Gilbert, an economist known for his advisory work for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration and for his volunteer economic work in Pakistan, died this Sunday of complications following cancer...
After receiving his Ph.D., Gilbert entered the ranks of the Roosevelt administration as an economic adviser to Harry Hopkins, one of the principal architects of the New Deal. Gilbert went on to become chief economist and director of research for Roosevelt's Office of Price Administration. Economist Walter Salant, of the Brookings Institute in Washington, called Gilbert "the outstanding, unsung hero of American wartime economic policy...
Professor David E. Bell, Clarence James Professor of Population Sciences and International Health, remembers Gilbert as "a very gentle man with ideas that were forceful and radical for their time...
During the New Deal, Gilbert was one of the first economists to focus his attention on the economies of developing nations...