Arthur Smithies (December 12, 1907 – September 9, 1981) was an American economist.
[1] After graduating from The Hutchins School, Smithies received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tasmania (1929), a Bachelor of Arts from Magdalen College, Oxford (1932), and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University (1934).
[1] Smithies worked at the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Canberra (1935–1938), the University of Michigan (1938–1943), the Bureau of the Budget in Washington, DC (1943–1938), where he managed the Marshall Plan, and Harvard University (1948–1978), where he chaired the economics department (1950–55, 1959–61) and was master of the Kirkland House (1965–74), retiring in 1978.
[1] Smithies married Katharine Hermione Ripman on February 22, 1935, with whom he eventually had two daughters.
[1] Smithies died from myocardial infarction on September 9, 1981; he was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the time.