Winfield W. Riefler (1897–1974)[1] was an American economist and statistician who helped create the Federal Housing Administration[2] and was instrumental in the 1951 Treasury-Fed Accord[3][4] Riefler is credited with inventing the modern amortized home mortgage.
His Riefler-Burgess framework stood in opposition to the real bills doctrine as a guiding philosophy of U.S. monetary policy in the early 1930s.
[7] He served as president of the American Statistical Association in 1942 and was a faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1935 to 1949.
[1] Riefler served as assistant to the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1948 to 1959.
In a 1947 article in Foreign Affairs, "Our Economic Contribution to War", Riefler described the intersection between civilian and military components of an industrial economy.