Sidney Graham Winter (born 1935, in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American economist and Professor Emeritus of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is recognized as a leading figure in the revival of evolutionary economics.

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Sidney G. Winter
Born
Sidney Graham Winter

1935
NationalityAmerican
SpouseAlice Rivlin (m. 1989)
Academic career
FieldEvolutionary economics
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tradition
Evolutionary economics
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In 1982, he co-published with Richard R. Nelson An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, a book which has since been cited nearly 25,000 times.

Winter was Chief Economist of the US General Accounting Office (1989-1993). He won the Viipuri Prize for Strategic Management in 2008.

Winter was the second husband and widower of economist Alice Mitchell Rivlin.

Works

  • An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, 1982, ISBN 0-674-27228-5
  • Patents and Welfare in an Evolutionary Model., 1993
  • Founding Co-editor of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with R. H. Day)


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