Mordecai Ezekiel

Who was Mordecai Ezekiel?

Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel was an American agrarian economist who worked for the United States government and the United Nations for a number of years.

He is credited with formulating the details of what was to become the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, and helped prepare a draft of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. After the November 1932 presidential election, he also met with President-elect Franklin Roosevelt, Rexford Tugwell, M. L. Wilson, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., to discuss the farm policy of the new administration.

He was also an early and long time participant with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Together with G.C. Haas, he helped describe the pork cycle.