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British econometrician, born 1923
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John "Jack" Johnston was a British econometrician. He spent most of his career at the University of Manchester, where he was the UK's first chair of econometrics and later University of California, Irvine. Johnston is particularly known for authoring Econometric Methods, one of the earliest and most popular textbooks in econometrics, the most recent editions being co-authored with John DiNardo.