Herbert Scarf

Herbert Scarf

Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf (born July 25, 1930) in Philadelphia, PA is an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During his undergraduate work he finished in the top 10 of the 1950 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the major mathematics competition between universities across the United States and Canada. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1954.

Among his notable works is a seminal paper in cooperative game in which he showed sufficiency for a core (economics) in general balanced games. Sufficiency and necessity had been previously shown by Lloyd Shapley for games where players were allowed to transfer utility between themselves freely. Necessity is shown to be lost in the generalization.

Scarf received the 1973 Frederick W. Lanchester Award for his contribution "The Computation of Economic Equilibria" with the collaboration of Terje Hansen, which pioneered the use of numeric algorithms to solve general equilibrium systems using Applied general equilibrium models.

External links

* [http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/~hes/ Personal web site]
* [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/scarf.htm The works of Herbert Scarf]


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