Arthur Melvin Okun

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Arthur Melvin "Art" Okun (1928 - 1980) was a U.S. economist. He served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors between 1968 and 1969. Before serving on the C.E.A., he was a professor at Yale University, and afterwards was a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

He formulated Okun's law about the relationship between unemployment and economic growth.

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