Blume, Marshall, 1941-2019

Marshall Edward Blume was an American financial economist. Blume taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for 44 years, beginning in 1968. While on the faculty, he created Wharton's Online Trading and Investment Simulator and the Wharton Securities Exchange. He was appointed Howard Butcher Professor of Finance in 1978, and granted emeritus status upon retirement in 2010. In 2011, the Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, where Blume had served as director since 1986, began awarding the Marshall Blume Prizes in Financial Research in his honor. (Source: Wikipedia)