Joseph A. Livingston; Author of Business Outlook Column

Joseph A. Livingston, 84, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter whose Business Outlook column appeared in more than 50 newspapers across the country twice each week. Livingston started his column in 1945 and used the Philadelphia Inquirer as his base from 1972 until his death. The Inquirer said that Livingston also compiled a twice-yearly survey of economists across the country and that it was one of the nation’s first consensus economic forecasts. He won his Pulitzer in 1964 for a series of articles titled “The Power Pull of the Dollar.� They described how Communist countries, particularly those of Eastern Europe, were being pulled toward the West by a variety of economic forces. In Pipersville, Pa., on Monday.