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Lerner was born on October 28 , 1903 in Bessarabia (territory now in Ukraine or Moldova ). He grew up in a Jewish family, which emigrated to Great Britain when Lerner was three years old. Lerner grew up in the London East End . From the age of sixteen he worked as a machinist, a teacher in Hebrew schools, and as a businessman. He entered the London School Of Economics in 1929 . A six-month stay at Cambridge in 1934–1935 brought him into contact with John Maynard Keynes . Lerner married Alice Sendak in 1930; they had twin children, Marion and Lionel, in 1932.

In 1937 , Lerner emigrated to the United States .


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  • Lerner developed the concept of Distributive Efficiency , which shows that economic equality will produce the greatest total happiness with a given amount of wealth.







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