Holbrook Working

Holbrook Working
BornFebruary 5, 1895
DiedOctober 5, 1985(1985-10-05) (aged 90)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Academic work
InstitutionsStanford University's Food Research Institute

Holbrook Working (February 5, 1895 – October 5, 1985) was an American professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University's Food Research Institute known for his contributions on hedging, on the theory of futures prices, on an early theory of market maker behavior, and on the theory of storage (including the Working curve which plots the difference between short term and long term grain futures prices against current inventory).