Former NBER President dies in Cambridge.

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John R. Meyer, who served as President of the NBER from 1967 to 1977, died in Cambridge on October 20, 2009. Meyer, who was widely recognized for his pioneering contributions in transportation and urban economics, had retired as the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1999.

Meyer was a tenured professor in Harvard's economics department from 1955 to 1968. After he became President of the NBER, then headquartered in New York City, he moved closer to its offices and began teaching in gale University's economics department where he remained until 1973. He then returned to Cambridge and taught at the Harvard...