anonymously and posthumously in encyclopedias, but rescued from oblivion in a volume edited by Perry Mehrling and Roger Sandilands (1999). His best-known single paper was his presidential address to the British Association in September 1928 on "Increasing returns and economic progress". Nicholas Kaldor insisted that this paper had been neglected because it was 50 years ahead of his time, but it has recently enjoyed a revival of interest as an acknowledged forerunner of modern "endogenous growth theory". Paul Samuelson named Young (along with Harry Gunnison Brown, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Henry Ludwell Moore, Frank Knight, Jacob Viner, and Henry Schultz) as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860. Bibliography Collections of Young's papers are in the Hiram College archives and in the Harvard University Archive. Charles Blitch, Allyn Young: The Peripatetic Economist, Macmillan, 1995. A book-length treatment of Young's work. Review extract, Economic Journal, 1997. Perry G Mehrling and Roger J Sandilands (eds.), Money and Growth: Selected Papers of Allyn Abbott Young, Routledge, 1999, including a comprehensive bibliography. Scroll to article-preview links. References Peter Newman (1987). "Young, Allyn Abbott," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 4, pp. 937–40. 1876 births 1929 deaths Academics of the London School of Economics Hiram College alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Harvard University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association Presidents of the American Statistical Association People from Kenton, Ohio American statisticians Presidents of the American Economic Association Economists from Ohio Case Western Reserve University faculty Washington University in St. Louis faculty Cornell University faculty Dartmouth College faculty