John Whitefield Kendrick (July 27, 1917, Brooklyn – November 17, 2009, Arlington, Virginia) was a pioneer in productivity measurement and economic accounting.
[1][2] Kendrick worked as an economist from 1946 to 1953 at the Office of Business Economics, the predecessor to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and from 1955 to 1988 as a professor at George Washington University.
[3] Kendrick received a bachelor's degree in history in 1937 and a master's degree in economics in 1939 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Kendrick authored more than a dozen books on economics and productivity.
[2] The Kendrick Prizes, named for Dr. Kendrick, are offered by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) for the best articles published each year in their journal, the Review of Income and Wealth.