Edward Fulton Denison (December 18, 1915, Omaha – October 23, 1992, Washington D.C.) was an American economist.
[1][2][3] He was a pioneer in the measurement of the United States gross national product[1] and one of the founders of growth accounting.
[1] In 1948, he became acting chief of the National Income Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
[3] The next year, Edward also acted as Assistant Director and Chief Economist of the Office of Business Economics.
[3] From 1963, he served as a senior member of the Brookings Institution on economic research.