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David Gale Johnson (July 10, 1916 –

April 13, 2003) was an American economist and an expert notable contributions to economics, Johnson concluded that the strength

of an industry depends on how the market works and not so much on government

actions. Johnson was Chairman of the department of economics at the University of Chicago and

a member of the National Academy of

Sciences He was also a fellow of the American Agricultural

Economics Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences The New York Times called

him "a pioneer in agricultural economics". The University of Chicago called

him "one of the world's most eminent researchers of agricultural and

development economics". The National Academies Press called

him "a scholar of exceptional breadth who made original and important

contributions to economics and to public policy". Johnson received his PhD

at Iowa State in 1945 under the supervision of Theodore Schultz. In the mid-1940s, a group of agricultural

economists led by Schultz and Johnson moved to the University of Chicago.

Johnson served as department chair from 1971-1975 and 1980-1984 and was

president of the American Economics Association in 1999. Their research in farm

and agricultural economics was

widely influential and attracted funding from the Rockefeller Foundation to

the agricultural economics program at the University. Among the graduate

students and faculty affiliated with the pair in the 1940s and 1950s were Clifford Hardin, Zvi Griliches, Marc Nerlove, and George S. Tolley.