- Jack Hirshleifer
Jack Hirshleifer (
August 26 ,1925 –July 26 ,2005 ) was an Americaneconomist and long-time professor at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles .He received a B.S. from
Harvard University in 1945 and a Ph.D. in 1950. He worked at theRAND Corporation in Santa Monica from 1949 to 1955. He then taught at theUniversity of Chicago from 1955 to 1960, and at UCLA until 2001. Hirshleifer was well-known for his work on uncertainty and information in economics, the economic analysis of conflict, and bioeconomics. His undergraduate textbook, "Price Theory and Applications", went into seven editions. A 1958 article by Hirshleifer began the triumphant comeback ofIrving Fisher 's theory of capital and interest, now deemed canonical.Bibliography
* Hirshleifer, Jack. "Exchange Theory: The Missing Chapter." Western Economic Journal (Economic Inquiry) 11 (June 1973): 129-146
* Hirshleifer Jack, Price Theory and Applications, Prentice/Hall International, Inc. 1976
* Hirshleifer Jack, "From weakest-link to best-shot: The voluntary provision of public goods", “Public Choice”, Vol. 41, Number 3, January 1983, pp. 371-386.External links
* [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hirshleifer.htm Biography at New School web page]
* [http://www.palisadespost.com/obituaries/index.cfm?Story_ID=1361 Obituary]
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