Case, Karl Edwin, American economist, b. New York City, 1946, Ph.D. Harvard, 1976. As a professor at Wellesley College (1976–2010), Case focused on urban economics, real estate markets, and public finance. He was concerned with the causes and effects of boom-and-bust cycles in real estate, and how economics touched the lives of ordinary people. In the mid-1980s Case and Robert Shiller began developing what became the Case-Shiller home price indexes, widely used gauges of U.S. residential real estate prices and trends.
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