Duran Bell

Duran Bell

Born	c. 1936 (age 74–75)[1]
Nationality	United States
Institution	University of California, Irvine
Field	Social economics
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Contributions	Models of social processes

Duran Bell is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. He was formerly a professor there in two departments, Economics and Anthropology.^[2]

Education and early career

Bell received his B.A. in economics in 1960 and his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1965, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined the faculty in the Economics department at the University of California, Irvine in 1965.^[1]

Research

Bell was a research associate with the Brookings Institution from 1971 to 1973 and a senior economist with the RAND Corporation from 1973 to 1976. Bell's main research focus was on non-market exchange processes, and eventually he found ethnography the most effective theoretical grounding for his work. He later joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine in 1985.^[1]

Bell is a founding member of the Social Dynamics and Complexity Group in the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at U/C Irvine.^[3]

Personal life

Bell is married to Huiqin Zhao, whom he met while in China.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} JSTOR: Current Anthropology, Vol. 38, No. 2 (April 1997), pp. 237-253. 2011 [last update]. JSTOR 2744491. 
2. ^ "Emeritus Faculty: UCI Economics". economics.uci.edu. 2011 [last update]. http://www.economics.uci.edu/ec_emeritus. Retrieved 5 July 2011. 
3. ^ "Social Dynamics and Complexity Group faculty". socsci.uci.edu. 2011 [last update]. http://www.socsci.uci.edu/socdyn/html/body_faculty.html. Retrieved 5 July 2011. 

External links

• Faculty page at the University of California, Irvine
• Author page at RAND Corporation
• Recent publications

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Name	Bell, Duran
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Short description	Professor of economics
Date of birth	1936
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