Holbrook Working, a professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University’s Food Research Institute, is known for his contributions on hedging, the theory of futures prices – which anticipated the efficient markets hypothesis, an early theory of market maker behavior, and the theory of storage (including the "Working curve" which plots the difference between short term and long term grain futures prices against current inventory). Wikipedia
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The two brothers, Holbrook Working and Elmer Joseph Working, were both distinguished statisticians who made seminal contributions to the early development of econometrics . Holbrook Working , 1895-1985 . cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/working.htm