David Gale Johnson (July 10, 1916 – April 13, 2003) was an American economist and an expert on Russia and China.
[1][2][3][4] Among other 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.
[3] Johnson was chairman of the department of economics at the University of Chicago[2][4] and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
[2] The National Academies Press called him "a scholar of exceptional breadth who made original and important contributions to economics and to public policy".
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.