Albert Ando

Albert K. Ando (アルバート安藤, 15 November 1929 – 19 September 2002) was a Japanese-born economist.

He was born in Tokyo, as a member of family running Ando Corporation, a major construction company.

He didn't join the family business, and came to the United States after World War II.

At Carnegie Mellon he collaborated, among others, with Herbert A. Simon on questions regarding aggregation and causation in economic systems and with Franco Modigliani on the life cycle analysis of saving, spending, and income.

Albert Ando was a tenured professor of economics and finance at the University of Pennsylvania from 1967 until his death from leukemia in 2002.