Ross Eckert

Ross Doud Eckert (1941- December 23 1994)cite news |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59636108.html?dids=59636108:59636108&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+28%2C+1994&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Ross+Eckert%3B+Wrote+About+Risk+of+AIDS+in+Transfusions&pqatl=google |title=Ross Eckert; Wrote About Risk of AIDS in Transfusions|pages = A16 |date=December 28 1994 |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=2008-09-23] was the Boswell Professor of Economics and Legal Organization at Claremont McKenna College, the faculty of which he joined in 1979. He received his degrees from UCLA. He was one of the first to warn of the threat that AIDS posed to the blood supply, and a major goal in his life was cleaning up the blood supply. The matter affected him personally as he was a hemophiliac who contracted HIV/AIDS from a transfusion. He was also a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.cite journal |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-9845188.html |title=Ross Doud Eckert 1941-1994 | date= July 1 1996 | journal=Economic Inquiry |author = Frank C Wykoff |accessdate=2008-09-23] Eckert worked with Ward Elliott on market-incentives to reduce congestion. He also worked to rescue the U.S. Laws of the Sea from degradation.

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