Joe Staten Bain (4 July 1912, Spokane, Washington – 7 September 1991, Columbus, Ohio) was an American economist associated with the University of California, Berkeley.
Bain was designated a Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association in 1982.
[1] An accompanying statement referred to him as "the undisputed father of modern Industrial Organization Economics.
Bain was appointed Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley in 1939 and served there until his retirement in 1975.
Major works included The Economics of the Pacific Coast Petroleum Industry (1944-1947)[6] described as "a landmark in the application and empirical testing of the hypotheses of microeconomic theory.