Irving Louis Horowitz

Irving Louis Horowitz
Known forProposing a quantitative index for measuring a country's quality of life, and helped to popularize "Third World" as a term for the poorer nations of the Non-Aligned Movement
Academic background
EducationCity College of New York
Columbia University
University of Buenos Aires
Academic work
DisciplineSociologist
InstitutionsUniversity of Buenos Aires
Washington University in St. Louis
Rutgers University

Irving Louis Horowitz (September 25, 1929 – March 21, 2012) was an American sociologist, author, and academic. He proposed a quantitative index for measuring a country's quality of life, and helped to popularize "Third World" as a term for the poorer nations of the Non-Aligned Movement.

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