Arthur Goldberger

Arthur Stanley Goldberger (20 November 1930-11 December 2009) was an econometrician and an economist. He worked with Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein on the development of the famous Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic computer model at the University of Michigan. He died at the age of 79.

He spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he helped build the Department of Economics. He wrote classic graduate and undergraduate econometrics textbooks, including Econometric Theory (1964), A Course in Econometrics (1991) and Introductory Econometrics (1998). Among his many accomplishments, he published a number of articles critically evaluating the literature on the heritability of IQ and other behavioral traits.