Eveline M. Burns

Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns (March 16, 1900 – September 2, 1985) was an American economist, writer and instructor.

In 1933, during the Great Depression, she returned to England in 1933 to study unemployment programs.

From 1939 to 1943 she was head of the economic security and health section of the National Resources Planning Board.

In the 1940s, she was the Anna Shaw Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College and a professor at Columbia.

[3][4] In 1922, she married the economist Arthur Robert Burns and the couple emigrated to the United States.